Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[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

[Rebelbase]

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

They already are using it.......

Prolific Self- Proclaimed Internet Terrorist Back on Line with More Threats (Yellowstone blowing)

Good read inside the link about with the probable source of this article.

[cspackler]

Just to be clear, I was referring to the article, not the poster... No ill will intended.

[HardStarboard]

Environmentalists blame Bush.

It's certainly global warming.....well, ain't it?

[Husker24]

I wonder how long it would be from the time it blew to the time the ash started falling in Nebraska?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And what about my trout?

Trout Fishing in America

[stlnative]

Ash Fall Graphic from the eruption some 630,000 years ago... it shows how far the Ash reached.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/figures/fig3.html

[Triple Word Score]

That's far too cynical. In truth: if it doesn't blow, every living thing within 600 miles will live forever....

Er....

[Rebelbase]

More skeptics: Yellowstone a hotspot of contention

[HardStarboard]

>>>what do you think the government would do?<<<

Well, if it was the Clinton administration, they'd put some ice on it!

[Triple Word Score]

http://www.uhaul.com/

[Elliott Jackalope]

Inverse-square is an equation that applies to 3-d space, so it is the proper equation to apply here. Also realize that this applies to blast force and heat energy, but does not apply to ash dissipation, since there are atmospheric forces at work affecting the distribution of ash.

Let's just say that if the Yellowstone caldera blows, we're not going to be worrying too much about who's going to win the Super Bowl or Titney Rears' latest album...

[Major_Risktaker]

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

A Yellowstone polution blow like this could equal
say 40,000 snowmobiles per day for a season.

[Ethyl]

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


Ok, how much of kalifornia does that take out???

[Paul C. Jesup]

I disagree with the 'dying super-volcano' theory because Yellowstone has constantly gotten more active over the past 60 years (the ground bulging for example). If that theory was true, Yellowstone should less active now than in the past.

[Iris7]

Don't know, there is the story about fifty feet of ash in eastern Ohio the last time Yellowstone blew. "Every living thing" is of course baloney.

[Happy2BMe]

"It would dwarf the volcanic explosion in the Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BC and that affected the entire planet."

Let's not forget that only 13 years ago Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines erupted and caused earth's temperature to drop .5 celcius.

Aerial view of Mount Pinatubo after the cataclysmic June 15, 1991. A joint team from the US Geological Survey and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) worked closely to assess hazards and monitor and predict eruptive activity at Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The accurate characterization of the hazards and timely warnings of eruptions led to the evacuation of approximately 56,000 people--including 14,500 U.S. servicemen and their dependents--from high-hazard areas near Mount Pinatubo days before the volcano's climactic eruption. Photo by E.W. Wolfe.

[blam]

"Yeah, the Yellowstone ash grinds the lungs. I think that's how a lot of the animals in Texas died the last time Yellowstone blew, from lung desease."

Those that didn't die from lung disease, after a while, starved to death.

[A CA Guy]

Isn't that where the Democrat Party is having their convention and headquarters placed for 2004 elections?

[autoresponder]

But think of the energy savings cooking breakfast on the ground with no campfires.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Then there's always Thera.

New findings, they say, show that Thera's upheaval was far more violent than previously calculated — many times larger than the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, which killed more than 36,000 people. They say the Thera blast's cultural repercussions were equally large, rippling across the eastern Mediterranean for decades, even centuries.

"It had to have had a huge impact," said Dr. Floyd W. McCoy, a University of Hawaii geologist who has studied the eruption for decades and recently proposed that it was much more violent than previously thought.

The scientists say Thera's outburst produced deadly waves and dense clouds of volcanic ash over a vast region, crippling ancient cities and fleets, setting off climate changes, ruining crops and sowing wide political unrest.

For Minoan Crete, the scientists see direct and indirect consequences. Dr. McCoy discovered that towering waves from the eruption that hit Crete were up to 50 feet high, smashing ports and fleets and severely damaging the maritime economy.

Other scientists found indirect, long-term damage. Ash and global cooling from the volcanic pall caused wide crop failures in the eastern Mediterranean, they said, and the agricultural woes in turn set off political upheavals that undid Minoan friends and trade.