Posted on 05/02/2019 5:51:47 PM PDT by SJackson
YELLOWSTONE volcano could be about to erupt and challenge humanity’s existence as a spate of mini-quakes have been felt around the fearsome caldera.
During the month of April, a total of 63 earthquakes struck around the Wyoming based supervolcano. All of the tremors were relatively small, with the largest registering at 2.6 on the Richter scale, hitting on April 29. But experts have warned that it is not necessarily about the strength of an earthquake around a volcano, but more the quantity of them.
Some scientists believe that tremors around a volcano could be a sign that it might blow.
Portland State University Geology Professor Emeritus Scott Burns said a spate of small tremors around a volcano usually signifies that magma and gasses beneath the surface are beginning to navigate their exit.
He said: “If you get swarms under a working volcano, the working hypothesis is that magma is moving up underneath there.”
However, others disagree about whether an earthquake swarm near a volcano could be a sign of things to come.
Jamie Farrell at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, believes this is just part of the natural cycle for Yellowstone volcano, saying: “Earthquake swarms are fairly common in Yellowstone.
“There is no indication that this swarm is related to magma moving through the shallow crust.”
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago.
If the volcano were to erupt it would kill an estimated 87,000 people immediately and make two-thirds of the USA immediately uninhabitable.
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Wherever I go I hope there’s Rum!
There seem to be a new Yellowstone is about to blow article every other month.
All the CO2 wants out
I've been aware of this risk since the days of global cooling and mass starvation triggered by overpopulation, being told my time on this earth would be ending in a couple decades. By the same media reporting today that my world ends in 10 to 50 years, depending on which Democrat Presidential candidate they're drooling over. The h*ll with all of them, I'll just keep living like I have and ignore their nonsense. If I don't die from a volcano, it will be global warming triggered by cows and sheep passing gas. I'll just have to live with it. And warn my kids when the panic over global cooling begins again, been there, don't that.
JellyStone is a very series place.
It’s entirely possible in the next 70,000 years, they’ll be correct. That’s a lot of buffalo generations.
And cheeseburgers.
Sorry, I forgot, I was supposed to be dead by now from skin cancer. The ozone layer did it.
it was the beans....
...sorry
I, for one, plan on being out of town that day.
I dont care if it blows or not.
Looks like a bathroom to me, but they say it's a tavern.
Indeed. Yellowstone has been about to erupt for a zillion years.
Of course, if it does, my daughter and SIL in N. ID will be in its path and I might too in Spokane. Gotta go some way. It’s in God’s hands. And so are we.
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We just returned from a week in Yellowstone on Monday. We didn’t feel any earthquakes.
There is a series of calderas extending to the southwest of Yellowstone. These represent huge volcanic eruptions that have occurred over the last few tens of millions of years. Since the American tectonic plate is moving across an enormous pocket of molten magma, the next eruption will not be in the exact same place as the previous one, but to the northeast. Given the size of previous eruptions, I don’t expect that much living in the newest caldera will survive, even if the eruption is not directly underneath.
When you visit Yellowstone, the magma may be as close as 3 miles below the surface. This does not seem to concern the visitors (who would die instantly in an eruption, anyway) but does make for some spectacular hot springs, geysers, fumaroles, mud pots, etc. It is definitely worth a visit (or 2 or 3...).
Been to Pompei. Volcano still spewing smoke. Will it erupt again?
Worry
Worry
Worry
This is simply NOT FAIR! We were given 12 years, and now we don't even get that much?
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