Are the Yellowstone and Long Valley Calderas About to Blow?

The City Edition ^ | March 11, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[skr]

Always be ready to meet your Maker.

[Eye of Unk]

Time to run away I say, let the Moslims and south of the border conquistas have it.

They want America so much let them deal with it.

If its going to happen there is nothing mortal man can do to stop it, best to just get away from it.

[wiggen]

Yes. They need to release some pressure there. Let the lave flow instead of explode. I have to think engineers can figure this out.

[Eye of Unk]

Cue the movies with the subsurface boring machines and super nuke bombs.

You know in all honesty I actually would have to admit some group of scientists could conceivably have a device that would stop such an eruption, like a small black hole, it draws the pressure off like lancing a boil.

[AlexW]

I do not know about Long Valley, but I DO keep a close watch for any info on Yellowstone activity.
An eruption of that caldera could pretty much end America as we know it, but Obambie is just as bad.
With the Marxist in charge, America may be gone by 2012.

My other area of interest is the New Madrid fault, as it runs through former home location (Memphis).
One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.
Remember, the last big earthquake (1812) caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Here is an interesting site, http://newmadridearthquake.com/
They have posted info on the Japan quake.

[Eye of Unk]

Its been speculated that an increase of drilling around Arkansas has increased earthquake activity, kinda makes me wonder if Obamabie is pushing for an excessive amount of drilling there around the New Madrid Fault so as to make it happen.

I have absolutely no doubts he wants panic, ruin, desperation, hopelessness just so he can strut in and become the Messiah.

[wiggen]

why not something more akin to lancing an infection.

[Eye of Unk]

Someone should write a script about this, they find that the Yellowstone Caldera will indeed erupt, much larger than on the movie 2012, scientists try boring holes and using nukes, doesn’t work, only creates a bunch of earthquakes.

They even whip out a super secret Tesla designed earthquake machine hoping to then stop the earthquakes, no dice.

And then somebody comes up with creating an artificial black hole, that draws everything including light away and off into some point in time and space. So the black hole goes off and basically takes a huge chunk of America out and we now have an inland sea, but no more treat of a Super volcano.

[PowderMonkey]

"Environmental activists also remain wary about continued oil drilling in areas adjacent to the park... .In California, the Long Valley Caldera was hit by a series of strong quakes in the late 1970's. "Unrest in the area persists today," the USGS explains."

So much for credibility. "Unrest"? Well, there it is. That's what it's all about. The volcano god is angry. Meanwhile, scientists (environmental activists) are reading the goat entrails in an attempt to see into our future. I am reminded of a jaw-dropping interview conducted immediately after the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. An "expert" with the USGS went on national TV to proclaim that "the earth itself is violently angry with what man has done to it. It's expressing its outrage." Stranger still, nobody questioned the absurdity of that statement. It's not unrest. It's a zone of seismic and volcanic activity. Quake swarms and lava domes come and go, and have been doing so since the beginning of time. The ground shakes, and thunder clouds fill the sky. Japan gets hit with the biggest quake in over a thousand years, and we want to know why. Will the same fate befall us...have we displeased the volcano god? Bad things happen to good people, and we seek an explanation. Yellowstone and its caldera will still be here when your children's' grandchildren arrive to play atop it. The sun will rise tomorrow. Dress appropriately.

[exnavy]

Life on Gods little green earth is very fragile.

[newzjunkey]

[Riley]

An "expert" with the USGS went on national TV to proclaim that "the earth itself is violently angry with what man has done to it. It's expressing its outrage."

Somebody -a normally intelligent and sober person- laid that line on me on Friday. I responded with a brief explanation of plate tectonics and subduction zones and closed with 'it would have happened even if Man had never existed'.

He didn't seem comfortable with that, but declined to pursue the discussion further.

[Lockbar]

I haven’t done much drinking in the past few years. Maybe its time to stock up on some booze.

[Erik Latranyi]

Life on Gods little green earth is very fragile.

Yes, it always has been fragile and always will be fragile, regardless man's arrogance.

[Lockbar]

Dude, you need to copy-write that concept. Sounds like a good movie.

[Riley]

If I’d had a moment to think about it, I would have furrowed my brow, put on my serious face, and said, “You’re right. Geo-science is all bunk. We need to throw some virgins into volcanoes to placate the Earth”.

[MARTIAL MONK]

We need to throw some virgins into volcanoes to placate the Earth

We are scrod. Virgins are scarce as hens teeth hereabouts.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Might could be we could substitute kittens or something.

[Jim Noble]

Over 5,000 wells have been drilled to date, with another 10,000 approved during the course of the Bush Administration, Joseph reports

Bush's fault.

Can't we all just get along?