Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[RightWhale]

Why can't we just import them?

Volcano engineers? Sure, why not?

[stands2reason]

Him, and that naughty Military-Industrial Complex^® and their sinister experiments with extremely low frequency elecronmagnetic waves. Just like how they caused the Iran earthquake. (/DU)

[MissAmericanPie]

I feel the same way about it, keep an open mind. Part of the documentary was about trying to find out events before hand instead of after the fact, which entails knowing what to type in and then finding the keywords surrounding it.

That is how they came up with astroid in 2012, when they typed in Los Angeles and earthquake they came up with the North Ridge quake and then another bigger one in 2010.

[Libertina]

LOL clever ;)

[Robert A Cook PE]

A surface blast is still no more than a half-mile-1 mile deep hole in the ground.

A long ways, but would it actually release pressure "safely" by destroying a natural park, or only delay it a few months or a few years, or release too much pressure prematurely?

The problem is predicting what happens if you vent the pressure, but release so much that catastrophe ensues anyway.

If you knew that Mt St Helens and Pinatubo were going to blow, but you couldn't prevent it, would you want to accelerate their schedule, or delay their schedule?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Granited.

Soil is enriched after the blow, at least downwind.

But only after the devastation. How many years of ash will it be before Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, OK, and Nebraska wheat, corn, and soy bean fields are back at full production?

[Justa]

I don't get where this 600,000 year interval comes from. Iirc the one before the last one was 2 million years ago. That'd put the current interval at 1.4 million years.

[Justa]

You do realize the Mayan calendar 'ends' in 2012 because after then it is no longer accurate? The calendar does not take into account astronomical precession. 2012 is the last year it will be accurate to the day. After that it'll be off by a day. They fully realized this and even performed sacrifices in hopes of preventing it. As for their 'end of the world' calculations they were a bit off. That occured over 400 years ago with the arrival of the Conquistadores.

[Kevin Curry]

Apparently, an enormous magma chamber (fed by a plume rising from deep within the earth) lies about 8000 meters beneath the surface of the park. In one sense that seems almost impossibly close to the surface. On the other hand, it represents approximately the same vertical distance as the summit of Mt McKinley from sea level. That's a lot of earth and stone. But what a pressure cooker! When and if it does break loose, it'll push that earth and stone skyward with almost unimaginable catastrophic force.

I don't believe there is an alternative to allowing nature to take its cataclysmic course. There would almost surely be precursor signs building to a major eruption. I suspect there would be a huge migration to the north and south. Mexican illegal aliens might even stop coming into the US for awhile.

There have been about 30 Pinatubo scale-eruptions at Yellowstone in the past 600 thousand years as well. Chances are much more likely we'd see one of those lesser blowups in our lifetimes.

[VOA]

bump

[Robert A Cook PE]

I understand they are taking the last few "average" intervals:

Roughly: 13 million, 10 million, ..... Keep tracking them closer and closer: 2.1 million, 1.3 million, 0.6 million....

On average, the series indicates the next one "should have" been here several thousand years ago. It's overdue.

[Paul C. Jesup]

But only after the devastation. How many years of ash will it be before Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, OK, and Nebraska wheat, corn, and soy bean fields are back at full production?

I'd say two years in starting back to production in the Great Plains after the event.

I'd say eight to ten years after the event until back to close to full production.

I figure an event like this to the Great Plains would be like the 1930's dust-bowl times ten.

[Paul C. Jesup]

There have been about 30 Pinatubo scale-eruptions at Yellowstone in the past 600 thousand years as well. Chances are much more likely we'd see one of those lesser blowups in our lifetimes.

When, where and how powerful was the Pinatubo eruption?

[Ann Archy]

YES!...I am sorry I didn't reply to all who answered my plea!!! Thanks for reminding me....FreeRepublicans have ALL the answers!

[MissAmericanPie]

No I didn't know that. I don't hold with the end of the world on 2012. Even if we had an astroid impact it wouldn't be a world killer. I do know if L.A. has a major quake in 2010 I will be revisting the Bible Codes.=o)

From what I can glean from Revelation man has progressed to the point of cloning at the time of the anti-Christ, or being able to create a living being, image that lives, something along those lines, and we are no where near being able to do that yet. So I feel pretty safe in moving that date back at least a few years.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good estimate.

And, that's only a guess. We really don't know.

Unlike oil pipes, we really don't know if we could "cap" the flow once the crust is weakened.

A small rockslide was all that triggered the Mt St Helen's eruption.... "Pipes" can't hold magma, and NOTHING we build (now!!!! - The FUTURE capability of our engineers is UNKNOWN!!!) could restrain cubic miles of rising hot magma.

How do you "plug" something that can melt rock, and lift mountains?

Pile more mountains on top of it? It's already lifting Mt McKinley high piles of rock and granite.

[Robert A Cook PE]

2-4 years.

[Kevin Curry]

Pinatubo erupted in June 1991. It is located on the Phillipine Island of Luzon (just north of Manila and Clark Air Base). It was about ten times more powerful than Mt. St Helens. It spread sufficient dust and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cause drop in global temperatures of about a half a degree centigrade for two years. I still recall the very vivid red sunsets of that period.

[Happy2BMe]

"I still recall the very vivid red sunsets of that period."

In the middle east, Pinatubo dust coming over merged with the Kuwaiti oil fire smoke to creat a "hell on earth" otherwordly feeling.

It lasted for three days.

[ccmay]

Make a prediction based on these Codes and give a date. Be specific. Remember, "by their fruits shall ye know them."

Otherwise you are talking utter horse $#!t, and blasphemy besides.

-ccm