Frequently asked questions about recent findings at Yellowstone Lake

USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory ^ | 2003

[John H K]

Have noticed an increase in obsessiveness about Yellowstone from the Art Bell crowd, and internet kook science and nutball religious prophecy websites. This is what is ACTUALLY going on.

And of course there's on FReeper that, every time there's a really large quake elsewhere in the world, starts running around claiming it "triggered" activity at Yellowstone because he looks at an unfiltered Yellowstone seismograph plot that is simply showing the wave arrivals from thousands of miles away :-).

The key thing is people not understanding that there's a wide spectrum between "nothing" and "massive North-America destroying Caldera blast" with 99.99% of the activity towards the "nothing" scale. The bulge on the lake has nothing to do with a Caldera blast.

And there's been no increase in seismicity actually located at Yellowstone.

[xrp]

Maybe we can get Congress to ban Yellowstone National Park. That'll show it!

[kinghorse]

But what about those Al Qaeda Thunderballers secretly wiring the lake for a super nuke extinction level event activator?

[colorado tanker]

Dang, this'll sure depress my Alcoa stock.

[Porterville]

Don't let Art Bell see this story, he'd have nothing else to talk about but ghost and bigfoot.... oh, and global warming

[ElkGroveDan]

Well you certainly take the fun out of things don't you? ;-)

[Wacka]

People who don't live in quake prone area don't realize there are quakes every day, the vast majority unfelt. A few miles from my house we had 7 quakes between 3-4 which were felt, but we also had 150 aftershocks (below 2.0) none of which I felt.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Art Bell didn't he die about 10 or 20 years ago?

[Porterville]

No, he is still on Coas to Coast, he just came back a couple weeks ago.

[Servant of the 9]

People who don't live in quake prone area don't realize there are quakes every day, the vast majority unfelt.

Quakes are like Orgasms. Those that can't be detected without scientific instruments don't count.

So9

[balrog666]

Holy scientific buffoonery!!

How'd these idiots overlook the magma chamber below the park, the ongoing uplift/earthquake research, and the MASSIVE* past volcanic eruptions of the slumering Yellowstone supercaldera?

*Massive, massive, massive. Three times in the last 2 million years Yellowstone has blown up in a supervolcano with ash covering the land from Washington state to Missouri. The next one ain't gonna be any fun either.

[Lucy Lake]

Well you certainly take the fun out of things don't you? ;-)

LOL

[js1138]

Question one: Are we all gonna die? And if so, when?

Question two: Is this caused by terrorists, and will it vaporize the cells of out bodies? Will it split the country into three?

[ElkGroveDan]

Grizz fan???

Cats eat bear meat! Bozeman rules.

[Lucy Lake]

Bozeman rules.

Let's talk in two weeks... I never met a cat I didn't like!

[ElkGroveDan]

Just having fun, I actually haven't followed that rivalry since I left MSU -- in 1986.

[Conservomax]

Whoa cool, sounds like it could be a disaster flick called "Supervolcano YS 3000" or something.

[Conservomax]

Art Bell Crowd

I stopped listening to art bell when the world didn't slip into a new ice age on 5/5/2000.

[Lucy Lake]

Big game Saturday after next!

[GingisK]

And there's been no increase in seismicity actually located at Yellowstone.

Well, crap! I guess I have to start counting on a stray asteroid or something. I think the "GREAT RESET BUTTON" is long overdue.

On what can I pin my hopes? ;-D