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Ummm... Yellowstone?

Posted on 07/16/2021 8:00:28 PM PDT by djf

Seems to be a cluster of quakes in Lake Yellowstone. I know, I know, these are not rare... something about it caught my eye!


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To: Big Red Badger

We had a Great Run,
at least I Did.


81 posted on 07/17/2021 7:22:02 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: The_Media_never_lie; djf

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/national/article252835908.html


82 posted on 07/17/2021 7:25:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I mentioned to watch the movie volcano.

NOT correct. Watch the movie SUPERvolcano.

My bad.


83 posted on 07/17/2021 8:55:01 AM PDT by crz
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To: Myrddin

The one I really want to visit before I croak is the Long Valley Caldera. 7 hours from here and i think the wife and I will take a trip up this fall.

I have a friend who is a retired Geologist professor and he and I used to talk about these all the time. Havent talked to him in a few years now.

We used to laugh like hell at all these panic punks on the internet.


84 posted on 07/17/2021 9:01:40 AM PDT by crz
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To: The_Media_never_lie; djf; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Red Badger; MHGinTN; ...

Ping for the Sunken Earth info grams. 8<)

Yes, there IS a cluster of earthquakes right underneit the Yellowstone Lake, in the middle of the Yellowstone caldera.

Yes, the Yellowstone caldera regularly erupts catastrophically about every 600,000 years.

Yes, we are now 600,000 years from its last catastrophic eruption, and so - by the law of averages - “due for the next eruption of Yellowstone, and its destruction of the US mid-state economies and life. ...

BUT! Yellowstone also erupts “every 600,000 years”. Means that it could erupt next year - but in reality, the next Yellowstone eruption will be preceded tens if not hundreds of of thousands of massive earthquakes over a 200-1200 year period as pressure builds up and the dome expands. Not by 10-30 feet, but by 2,000 to 6,000 feet. Mt Mazama (west coast of Oregon-California where Crater Lake is now in its blown-off caldera) is over 8000 feet relief from the surrounding geology - that’s after the top got blown off.

The Yelowstone caldera is still under a lake - it has a long way to go to even force the lake to empty, much less fill a mountain top.

Now, about that off-shore Cascadia fault off the Oregon-Washington coast - affecting also the north California-southern British Columbia coast. That offshore fault last triggered with an 8.5 - 9.0 magnitude quake January 27 1700. And THAT cycle is not 600,000 years - +/- 200,000 years. Its tsunami’s are not 2-3 foot, they are 30-50 foot waves just like those that wiped out Japan’s eastern shore less than 15 years ago.

BUT the Cascadia Fault triggers magnitude 8.5 to 9.0 earthquakes regularly at a 520 year interval! THERE, when we say “It is overdue for the next earthquake” we mean by “only decades” not hundreds of thousands of years. Earthquakes have occurred recently, and regularly, in the years below:

1700 AD
900 AD
700 AD
400 AD
400 BC
900 BC.

Intervals between magnitude 8+ earthquakes of the Oregon-Washington coast?
800, 200, 300, 800, 500.
Average interval between earthquakes = 520 years,
Std deviation = 277 years.


85 posted on 07/17/2021 10:52:54 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: djf

And I worry about Rainier.


86 posted on 07/17/2021 11:00:46 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I seem to recall reading about a mountain in the Atlantic that if the side of it collapsed into the sea would yield a tsunami 500-1000 feet high along the northeast coast of the US.


87 posted on 07/17/2021 12:57:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Jonty30

Now that I think on it...burning in a lake of fire works, too.

:D


88 posted on 07/17/2021 1:38:50 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: MHGinTN

Yes - Another often-referenced “threat of doom and calamity” - One of the Azores Island mountain slides. It faces the US east coast. If it trips, yes the damage will be horrible. But it a once-in-150,000 year occurrence. If it repeats again at all.


89 posted on 07/17/2021 1:52:12 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

What makes it different from other yogurts?


90 posted on 07/17/2021 8:03:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Different cultures.

It is almost pudding like and it is somewhat naturally sweeter.

Takes four cups of milk to make a cup. I feed the whey to Pork Chop the Pig and he loves it.

91 posted on 07/17/2021 8:09:59 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem. (The wolf changes his coat, not his disposition.))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Are you going to end up eating Pork Chop?


92 posted on 07/17/2021 8:20:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
We always do. We get a feeder pig every spring and harvest them in the fall.

Last year we had three because they were so cheap but it was a great deal of work to process all three. So we are back to one this year.

93 posted on 07/17/2021 9:11:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem. (The wolf changes his coat, not his disposition.))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I enjoy pork now and then; but I don’t think I’d name one that I was rearing to eventually eat :-)


94 posted on 07/18/2021 6:02:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Last year they were Bacon, Ham and Sausage.

The chickens do not get names but since they are around longer you almost have to name the larger livestock. Even if it is only One, Two and Three.

It can be hard not to get attached. Especially to the beef calves. They are so cute when they are little.

Of course by the time Fall arrives they are almost full grown and much less cute.

95 posted on 07/18/2021 6:21:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem. (The wolf changes his coat, not his disposition.))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It tickles me to see young calves ‘dancing’. I’ve seen them jumping around sometimes, like little kids exulting in the fact of having legs and being able to MOVE.

(I always thought that if I ever owned a company, I’d name it ‘Dancing Calf’.)

(You can’t help but get attached. I worked for a long time in animal research; people even got attached to the research animals.)


96 posted on 07/18/2021 6:27:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I don’t think I own the copyright - the person who may have owned it has been dead since 1790.


97 posted on 07/18/2021 6:35:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jonty30

NO, Wyoming is a Conservative state thats been tainted by the communist left. I saw a bumper sticker there a few years ago that said they were full and to go away and take your commie policies with you.


98 posted on 07/18/2021 7:55:48 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death:Proverbs 8:36)
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To: Conservative4Life

I just want them in a state closest to Yellowstone, in case it goes off.


99 posted on 07/18/2021 8:03:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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