Yellowstone Park Ranger Just Revealed That Something Big Happened Inside Yellowstone

Cosmos Lab ^ | 26/3/23

[steve86]

I still have a jar of ash somewhere also.

[OKSooner]

Next time you might try some paragraphs.

[steve86]

Or, given calm winds, I should say.

[steve86]

I will try to get there next trip southward.

[steve86]

And thanks for bringing up Lassen on the thread. Never would have occurred to me otherwise. I have been to Craters of the Moon— impressive also.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Set aside some time to explore the area. Be sure to climb Mt. Lassen, too. Cinder Cone is off the beaten track and an interesting and gorgeous place. If you can, stay at Lake Almanor on the peninsula. Or get cabins on the north side of the park.

We used to vacation at Lake Almanor with the kids every summer.

[torqemada]

That’s not the geology I learned about Yellowstone and the surrounding areas that essentially run for hundreds of miles north to south. I was instructed that the Yellowstone volcano would not “erupt” in the conventional sense of the word - as in Pinatubo, or Vesuvius, or even Mt. St. Helens. This vast region is called a big “Rift Valley” - meaning that the crust will split and lava and gases will “flow” across the landscape. It’s like dumping hot fudge on your sundae or the thick juices of a pie breaking the surface crust. It does destroy huge expanses of the landscape and what the lava doesn’t bury, it will burn and kill every living thing with it’s radiating heat and poison gases. There is ample historic evidence of this unique rift form of volcanic action across multiple states. Fascinating stuff, but I hope and pray we never see it go active.

[Myrddin]

Pocatello mainly gets wind from SW - W - NW. Under very unusual circumstances, N - NE - E. I would anticipate most ash from Yellowstone would blow east/southeast. The last big eruption laid ash all the way to the southeast of the US and to a lesser extent down to Ensenada, Mexico.

If we get a basalt flow, it will be hard to escape. Liquid rock flowing over the surface at 100 MPH would quickly inundate my area. The freeways don't have to capacity to get everyone out before that occurs.

Basalt near Inkom, ID

[Myrddin]

Yup. Pocatello area. We would be pretty screwed, pretty fast. The silica in the ash turns into cement in the lungs as well as cutting them up due to sharp edges. You would need some really good gas masks to survive. Vehicles would be choked off pretty fast.

[Myrddin]

I was on top of a 5.5 with an epicenter about a city block away in Federal Way, WA. About 40 seconds of intense shaking. I was standing in the hallway with hands on the walls to avoid falling. I worked my way toward the kitchen. My mom was holding the kitchen cabinet doors closed to avoid being showered with plates and bowls. The school buses were already rolling. My bus driver experienced the bus dancing from left wheels to right wheels. Too much excitement.

The Northridge quake caused all of my wife's shoe boxes to come tumbling out of the closet and landed on top of me in bed. Early wakeup as I had to fly to Kansas City that day. Waiting in the Lindberg Field terminal was exciting as aftershocks rumbled the huge expanses of glass windows in the waiting areas.

[steve86]

Yeah, I once read about the little airport in Inkom. Does it have scheduled service, Delta/Sky West, I suppose.

[steve86]

Sounds like a good plan.

[steve86]

Snow every day at Lake Almanor recently.

[steve86]

Yeah, I probably could run to the summit of Lassen and back in about 20 minutes /s

[Jaysin]

Dolly Parton may have some visible assets from space!

[jmacusa]

When the Yellowstone Caldera goes it’’s good night Irene for pretty much the whole USA.

[cherry]

I detest Yellowstone...watched some of it and decided that all the characters except maybe one were contemptable....

Justified it is not.

[cherry]

I got my jar of volcano ash somewhere to...

when Mt St Helens blew, I was at work...we could see the dark cloud approaching...when we left work about 4pm it was completely dark outside and a fine dust was hitting us....there were sirens in the distance and if one didn't know it seemed like a nuclear nightmare....

I got home and once there I asked my husband if he had looked outside....nope... he was too busy watching tv and didn't even know that the mountain had blown .....

[cherry]

I live near Spokane so I hope we're safe at least initially...the darkening of the sky could destroy a lot of farm crops....

however, it is what it is....can't worry about something we can't change....

[Red Badger]

Imagine if all those events happened simultaneously........................