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Yellowstone Wyoming Earthquake: Magnitude 3.3 Hits Yellowstone National Park
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| May 9, 2011
| Jena Isle
Posted on 05/09/2011 10:03:14 AM PDT by george76
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
george76
Recent Earthquakes in the Intermountain West.
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html
The supervolcano Yellowstone Caldera, considered as an active volcano, covers a 25 mile by 37 mile area of Wyoming. During its last big blast about 640,000 years ago, a large crater was formed in the area. After the big blast, the supervolcano averages 30 minor eruptions. The most recent eruption of the supervolcano was 70,000 years ago that produced the areas flat landscape.
Scientists noticed in 2004, that the Calderas ground rises at the rate as high as 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) annually.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:05:30 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Hang on baby...if that super quake blows, it’s lights out for the earth.
To: george76
3.3 is bupkis...but if it is a precursor....we are DOOMED
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:11:05 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: george76
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According to geologists however, the Yellowstone caldera itself is unlikely to experience large earthquakes because the weakened bedrock is less likely to burst due to high subsurface temperatures."
Gee that is reassuring /not
High subsurface temps and a weakened bedrock - EQUAL BIG BANG!
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:11:24 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:13:49 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: george76
In alot of places a 3.3 is called ‘settling’.
If the Yellowstone caldera blows it’s lights out for everyone except maybe about 10K people around the globe, if that.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:16:50 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: george76
2012 is fast approaching...
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:24:35 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
To: Rio
global warming? No, but it is Bush's fault.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:28:23 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Free Vulcan
No worries,,, I have plenty of Duct Tape and Plastic.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:29:37 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
To: stuartcr
2012 is fast approaching...My poor sister. Her birthday is Dec. 22nd.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:33:12 AM PDT
by
houeto
(Rev. 13. [7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:)
To: george76
3.3 is nothing. I can fart that magnitude. :-)
To: george76
We often have these type of earthquakes. I’m surprised it made the news. The 1959 quake was a different. All of my family & friends have a “this is where I was” story on that one. I’m glad I missed that one (not born yet).
To: stuartcr
You don't think Obama would blow the Supervolcano just to prevent leaving office do you?
/tinfoil
You know what happens after 2012? Same thing that happened after Dec 31 1999.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:38:44 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
To: george76
wasnt there about a 3.3 in Japan before the 9.0?
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:42:13 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
To: houeto
My son 12/30, My DIL 1-6.
To: stuartcr
we’ll know if we see Woody Harrelson getting ready to broadcast from there
It’s a sign
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:44:26 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
To: Mr. K
It was slightly over 6.0.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:44:43 AM PDT
by
Raebie
(WS)
To: Dead Corpse
All I know is that if Morgan Freeman substitutes for Obama, you know we’re in deep doo doo.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:46:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Vaquero
3.3 is bupkis...but if it is a precursor....we are DOOMEDThere have been over a dozen quakes above 3.0 in California and Nevada in the last week. And that's not an atypical week.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:52:05 AM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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