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

[InterceptPoint]

She's gonna BLOW!!

Only if George Bush is re-elected. This would never happen if Dean becomes President. In any case, we need the Congress to pass an emergency measure outlawing Yellowstone blowing itself up even though we know that it will be vetoed by Bush.

[lawdude]

Another senseless Bush FU!

[RichInOC]

Okay, guys...which ranger drew the short straw to pour in the jar of Metamucil?

[Waco]

Nuther massive magma release may not occur for,,,glub,,glub,,,glub,,,glub

[CWOJackson]

This is all Bush's fault!

[null and void]

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

Dude! It doesn't get better! They come prepoached!

[Elliott Jackalope]

The inverse-square law states that something twice as far away from an energy source receives only one-quarter the amount of energy. So, an object that is ten feet away from a light bulb gets four times as much light as something that is twenty feet away.

[the invisib1e hand]

bulging magma

thought provoking.

[bd476]

A Kiss the Ground We Live in California Bump

[NYTexan]

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/isq.html

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Some truth, but mostly normal. I'm far enough away to say COOL if it uncorks! See the Snopes site:

http://www.snopes.com/science/volcano.asp

[Porterville]

All of the crazy crap that has happened around the world in my lifetime... I wouldn't be surprised if aliens landed on the White House lawn.

[Hank Rearden]

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

It means that the energy of the blast (like radiation, heat, light, lots of things adhere to this law) diminishes by the square of the distance you are from it.

In other words, at two miles away the energy is 1/4 of that at one mile. At 10 miles, it's 1/100th etc. So by the time you get 600 miles away, the energy is much less than at ground zero. It'd have to be pretty damn impressive to kill something 600 miles away.

[Porterville]

Or it could be a much smaller blast with a continuous weeping of magma, with little or no effect.

[PAR35]

This story misses the good news - the eruption would cancel out "global warming'.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I suspect you've never heard of a supervolcano such as Yellerstone.

[John H K]

This article is VERY much overhyped and seems written by a kook.

[leadpenny]

They did. In January 93.. Stayed until January 01.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not the blast, but the FALLOUT! 5 inches of volcanic junk dumped on our head in a few hours would suffocate just about everything.

[Lucy Lake]

Yellowstone ping.