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Yellowstone volcano: Earthquake swarm hits deadly caldera which could be sign of ERUPTION
Express ^ | Sean Martin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; doctorevil; earthquakes; liquidhotmagma; magma; volcano; volcanoes; volcanos; yellowstone
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To: Paladin2

Yes, we all remember Harry. He did what he wanted. Good on him.

I lived on an island in Puget Sound with a really good view of Mr. Ranier, a volcanic mountain that might spew lava at any time. When you live in this area, you accommodate. Much more likely to be sent to our reward by drivers in Seattle on a snowy day. Keystone-cops worthy clueless driving.


81 posted on 05/02/2019 7:48:03 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: Veto!
"Keystone-cops worthy clueless driving."

I hear you an that.

Total proportionality.

82 posted on 05/02/2019 7:51:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dougherty

Spring is a great time to go, if you can tolerate the cold. Only about half the park roads were open, but there were few tourists. In the summer, the park gets quite crowded. We would literally drive into parking lots and look for other cars, reasoning that they would be parked near the interesting stuff.

I wouldn’t worry about an eruption. According to one of the park rangers, quite a bit of volcanic activity occurred prior to the last eruption, such as isolated lava flows. If such events should start happening, then it would be time to worry.

In addition, the next eruption won’t happen at the site of the current caldera, but at some point to the northeast. That is because a huge magma chamber, 400 miles deep, is under the tectonic plate which is sliding to the southwest. Given the size of previous eruptions, not only will anything at the site of the eruption be instantly destroyed, but about a third of the US will be destroyed by ash and poisonous gasses. An eruption would be so huge and catastrophic, but is also so unlikely in our lifetimes that it is not worth worrying about. The wild animals at Yellowstone are far more of an immediate danger to life and limb.

Do go see Yellowstone, it is definitely worth at least one visit in a lifetime.


83 posted on 05/02/2019 7:52:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Veto!
"Keystone-cops worthy clueless driving."

I hear you on that.

Total proportionality.

84 posted on 05/02/2019 7:52:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I am afraid to drive at night here in Maryland, because of all the suicidal deer. I always try to stay behind other cars, so that they will hit the deer instead. That... sort of works.


85 posted on 05/02/2019 7:56:17 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: CaptainK

Usually old people (like the Emeritus Professor at PSU) are eager for and proclaim imminent catastrophes. They want to see something spectacular before they die...


86 posted on 05/02/2019 7:56:50 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: SJackson

The joke is on them ... Net Neutrality repeal killed all of us several months ago. Ha ha ha.


87 posted on 05/02/2019 8:01:31 PM PDT by edh
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To: SJackson
It is about due, we and frankly if there's a full eruption the rest of the human race will be somewhat culled as a result. It's sort of the "anti-Climate Change". It's real and supported by hard (too hard for journalists and Liberals to take the classes) Science.

Why isn't it talked about more? There's no skim for people like our Imbecile Former VP to be had in a massive transfer of wealth from the productive to those who cannot, for whatever reason, adopt freedom and Capitalism and thrive.

But will happen soon? Maybe, maybe not. But considering the sinfulness and outright derangement of these times in America, it wouldn't be all that surprising.

88 posted on 05/02/2019 8:02:17 PM PDT by katana
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To: exDemMom

A fair plan...

I took a deer through the windshield of a small sedan one day [without a scratch to me] and am constantly vigilant now.

I have occasionally seen [dead] elk on US191 between Gallatin Gateway and Big Sky. Even with a small SUV, I don’t want to mix with them. Then there are the occasional Big Horns...


89 posted on 05/02/2019 8:08:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SJackson

bing


90 posted on 05/02/2019 8:10:01 PM PDT by jetson
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To: CaptainK

Maybe because there have been a large uptick in earthquake swarms over the last couple of years, not to mention lifting of the land.


91 posted on 05/02/2019 8:14:23 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: SJackson

They’ll hear the explosion from Denver. Everything south and east of Yellowstone will be devastated all the way to the Atlantic. Lets hope it stays dormant.


92 posted on 05/02/2019 8:23:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SJackson

*** ASH ALERT!! ***


93 posted on 05/02/2019 8:29:52 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: dragnet2

Denver will hear the explosion be covered in three feet of ash or so and it will kill everything east and some west of the Rocky Mountains clear east to Ohio or so. Decimate farming and food growing in the Midwest. Throwing half the world into starvation from lack of US food and money. Best place to be is on the lookout at lower or upper Falls in Yellowstone. No suffering that way. Any survivors are in for a treat. IMO


94 posted on 05/02/2019 8:50:44 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: SJackson

Well, is this one later than Mt St Helen? I don’t recall 75% of the US becoming uninhabitable. What’s the diff?


95 posted on 05/02/2019 9:09:44 PM PDT by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation!)
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To: Equine1952

It’ll be hard to breath prior to the ash fall due to the heat from the initial ejection of super heated material. Lets hope it’s delayed a few hundred years.


96 posted on 05/02/2019 9:33:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
I certainly hope so since I live about 100 miles from ground zero. I wish that was all I had to worry about. Maybe someday the archeologists will dig my bones up from the ash. Look he was drinking a bud light and sitting with his wife and dogs. That’s ok with me I’ll have went enjoying my life. 😀
97 posted on 05/02/2019 9:46:32 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: Billyv
"Well, is this one later than Mt St Helen? I don’t recall 75% of the US becoming uninhabitable. What’s the diff?"

Size. Yellowstone is a Super Volcano.

98 posted on 05/02/2019 9:52:04 PM PDT by blam
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To: SJackson

Well what’s taking so dam long?


99 posted on 05/02/2019 9:55:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Equine1952
Just like Harry Truman...


100 posted on 05/02/2019 10:00:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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