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Long Valley Supervolcano: World's Most Dangerous Volcano Shows Signs of 'Imminent Eruption'
nature world news ^ | Nov 24, 2021 06:25 AM EST | Rain Jordan

Posted on 11/24/2021 10:49:17 AM PST by BenLurkin

The Science Channel investigated a section of the valley and discovered many clouds of smoke pouring from beneath the ground.

Using InSAR data that has been monitoring the region for the last 20 years, geophysicist Jared Peacock pointed out a worrying aspect of the caldera that might portend problems.

InSAR is a remote sensing method that employs a laser to concentrate a beam of radiation on a target, bouncing back to a sensor on an antenna, providing a comprehensive map of a region.

One of the most concerning sites in InSAR was near Mammoth Lakes, a hamlet in the Sierra Nevada highlands.

A blazing-hot red spot is depicted just beneath the Earth, indicating the presence of magma.

The InSAR data revealed the resurgent dome and checked for signals of problems deep below to see if the Long Valley Caldera was coming back to life.

This activity, however, was not centralized, which is grounds for concern. Instead, it was scarce and dispersed.

The Long Valley Caldera reservoir is predicted to have "significant melt characteristics," with a volume of more than 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic kilometers).

This melt might be hot enough to burn liquid rock in around 27% of cases.

Long Valley last erupted 100,000 years ago, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: caldera; california; iylm; longvalley; longvalleycaldera; mammothlakes; sierranevada; supervolcano; volcano; volcanoes
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1 posted on 11/24/2021 10:49:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll see your CONvid and raise you an eruption.


2 posted on 11/24/2021 10:50:15 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Mammoth Lakes is one of the creepiest spots on earth.


3 posted on 11/24/2021 10:53:54 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: BenLurkin

How do you “burn liquid rock”?


4 posted on 11/24/2021 10:54:04 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: BenLurkin

No wonder Pelosi is moving to Florida. Someone must have tipped her off.


5 posted on 11/24/2021 10:55:45 AM PST by sphinx
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To: PTBAA

Journalists.........


6 posted on 11/24/2021 10:55:59 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: BenLurkin

Will coastal CA slide under the Pacific if this happens?

Asking for a friend ...


7 posted on 11/24/2021 10:56:45 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: BenLurkin

Eruptions have consequences.............................


8 posted on 11/24/2021 10:56:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s about 100 miles east of San Francisco.


9 posted on 11/24/2021 10:58:26 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Only the insane have the strength to prosper. Only those who prosper truly judge what is sane)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve read that one volcano puts out more pollution that all of mankind in history. What will a Super volcano put out? The END of the world????????


10 posted on 11/24/2021 10:59:32 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks

A Super volcano eruption anywhere, would darken the sky for months, all over the globe, scatter ash all over the globe and within a thousand miles of the crater have ash build up to several feet thick.

A ‘nuclear winter’ scenario, crops and forests would fail all over the globe, people would starve by the billions.............


11 posted on 11/24/2021 11:02:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

Why, how and when heat and and huge amounts of polluting gases emanate from the core of the earth is simply not scientifically understood. At best instruments seem to tell when really big eruptions are about to happen. The amount of heat and gasses released has more to do with climate change, arctic, antarctic ice thickness and the fate of polar bears than any other single factor.


12 posted on 11/24/2021 11:06:27 AM PST by allendale
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To: BenLurkin

Long Valley Supervolcano
13 posted on 11/24/2021 11:08:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PTBAA
...How do you “burn liquid rock”?

Spray it with Flourine. In fact room temperature rock will catch in fire with Flourine.

14 posted on 11/24/2021 11:09:15 AM PST by Nateman (If Left is not screaming , you're are doing it wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

Uh-oh, sounds like a another crisis! /s


15 posted on 11/24/2021 11:09:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

“ A ‘nuclear winter’ scenario, crops and forests would fail all over the globe, people would starve by the billions.”

And they’d still insist we wear masks and take experimental jabs.


16 posted on 11/24/2021 11:09:28 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BenLurkin

The USGS has it rated as very high.

Yellowstone is rated high.

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long-valley-caldera/


17 posted on 11/24/2021 11:09:52 AM PST by crz
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To: oldasrocks

Last Known Super-volcano eruption : 74,000BC most of humanity wiped out some several thousand survived - our ancestors.


18 posted on 11/24/2021 11:10:15 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PTBAA

Well, there’s always chlorine trifluoride.

https://interestingengineering.com/chlorine-trifluoride-set-fire-glass


19 posted on 11/24/2021 11:10:39 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: BenLurkin

20 posted on 11/24/2021 11:10:49 AM PST by Bratch
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