Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

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[Happy2BMe]

Scientists Closely
Monitoring Yellowstone
ProLiberty.com
12-23-3

 

Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...

 

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century.

 

In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser Basin because of deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is an area that is 28 miles long by 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over five inches since 1996, and this year the ground temperature on that bulge has reached over 200 degrees (measured one inch below ground level).

 

There was no choice but to close off the entire area. Everything in this area is dying: The trees, flowers, grass and shrubs. A dead zone is developing and spreading outward. The animals are literally migrating out of the park.

 

Then during the last part of July one of the Park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake and the water temperature at the surface of the bulge has reached 88 degrees and is still rising.

 

Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake with very cold water temperatures. The Lake is now closed to the public. It is filled with dead fish floating everywhere. The same is true of the Yellowstone river and most of the other streams in the Park. Dead and dying fish are filling the water everywhere.

 

Many of the picnic areas in the Park have been closed and people visiting the Park usually stay but a few hours before leaving since the stench of sulfur is so strong they literally can't stand the smell.

 

The irony of all this is the silence by the news media and our government. Very little information is available from Yellowstone personnel or publications. What mainstream newsstories do appear underscore the likelihood of a massive volcanic eruption. Though geologists publicly admit Yellowstone is "overdue," they have been quoted as stating another massive magma release may not occur for 100,000 or 2 million years. Others close to the story are convinced that a massive eruption is imminent. A source that has demonstrated first-hand knowledge of the park's history and recent geothermal events stated the following: "The American people are not being told that the explosion of this 'super volcano' could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die. The movement of magma has been detected just three-tenths of a mile below the bulging surface of the ground in Yellowstone raising concerns that this super volcano may erupt soon."

 

 

This report was taken from a series of articles, emails and official information

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm

[Happy2BMe]

O.K.

This explains why the trout aren't biting this year at Yellowstone.

[Johnny_Cipher]

From what I've read about this "supercaldera" already, if it blows, cancel Christmas.

[ccmay]

When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die.

Oh, please! What a crock of used food. This guy never heard of the inverse-square law.

-ccm

[fhayek]

How 'bout we move the detention camp from Gitmo to Yellowstone?

[dc-zoo]

She's gonna BLOW!!

[Rebelbase]

God forbid this thing is on its way to a super eruption. China may just get its wish to become the dominant superpower.

[cspackler]

may erupt soon

Soon being such a generic term, is that tomorrow, or sometime in the next 200,000 years? What a load of BS. Even used the word "imminent"...

[Ann Archy]

I'll bite...what is the inverse-square law? Be nice, I'm just a housewife.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not the blast or the heat, but covering the countryside with volcanic ash. I could believe it has that much in it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I assume this means we're all doomed. Damn.

[JennysCool]

I'm sure the PC Patrol is already busy crafting the Yellowstone Post-Volcano Snowmobile Law.

[Rebelbase]

How about enlighting us with your wisdom?

[chance33_98]

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/ Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

[Happy2BMe]

"What a load of BS."

All I wanted was a good day of fishing at the park.

[nhoward14]

Quick! Somebody get Joe up to Yellowstone to talk the volcano out of blowing its top!

[Rockitz]

Oh, the Hugh Manatee!

[null and void]

God forbid this thing is on its way to a super eruption. China may just get its wish to become the dominant superpower.

And the islamofascist would see it as a sign from allah...

[Kevin Curry]

What would be the effect of an eruption?

Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.

Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.

The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures plummet. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and drop in temperature. Also, virtually the entire of the grain harvest of the Great Plains would disappear in hours, as it would be coated in ash. Similar effects around the world would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures plummet by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.

[Vince Ferrer]

How's our moon base coming along?