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To: forest
Scientists have discovered that it has erupted regularly about every 600,000 years and is about 40,000 years overdue for the current blast.

Yellowstone is not particularly overdue for anything, and there aren't the slightest indications of any impending caldera blast.

California my be just out of reach, but there may be a system of faults running from Yellowstone to the San Andreas Fault, which is the Bay Area.

There is no such system of faults.

The size of the Yellowstone volcano just might trigger volcanos in California.

Baseless.

Mt. Shasta is considered active (as is Mt. Rainier up in Washington State.

Shasta and Rainier are dormant, not active.

The highest peak in the continental United States is Mt. Whitney, another volcano in east central California.

Mt. Whitney is NOT a volcano.

11 posted on 12/30/2004 10:58:10 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

You are correct, Mt. Whitney is not a volcano, just a big hunk of uplifted granite. It beleive he was thinking of Mammoth Mountain and the Long Valley Caldera.


24 posted on 12/31/2004 6:38:50 AM PST by Inyo-Mono (Proud member of P.O.O.P., People Offended by Offended People.)
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To: Strategerist; forest; ChefKeith
"California my be just out of reach, but there may be a system of faults running from Yellowstone to the San Andreas Fault, which is the Bay Area.

"There is no such system of faults."

I was just going to ask about that because I have never heard of or read about this anywhere.

The emergency prep information is excellent and EVERYONE living in California should read it and prepare just in case.

I was always prepared when I lived there, just ask CK when he had to come move me.

28 posted on 01/02/2005 6:46:19 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("If you can't run with the big dogs, you'd better go sit on the porch." (Daytona 48 days);-)
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To: Strategerist

I goofed on Mt. McKinley. It was pushed up by earthquake action. Please check out my docs concerning the other points.


31 posted on 01/02/2005 7:15:31 PM PST by forest
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Shasta and Rainier are dormant, not active.

Don't know the definition of inactive, but Shasta has sulfer steam venting near the summit. You are correct that most of the statements are not very scientific. However, it is reasonable that people in the San Andreas and Hayward faults take precautions and store some emergency supplies. They may not get much warning.

33 posted on 01/02/2005 7:55:45 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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Re #11:

You have stated that Yellowstone is not active and has no history of eruption, that there is no system of faults from Yellowstone to California, and that Rainier and Shasta are dormant.

Please be advised that there are hundreds, perhaps much more, acres of ground in Yellowstone that are so hot people with shoes can not walk on them. A dome has risen 100 feet in Yellowstone Lake. You and scientists do not agree.

For documents on the faults, please study my document link #5, then correct yourself."

Scientists consider Rainer active. While less active, Shasta is not dead.

As I posted earlier, you are correct that Whitney is not a volcano. I goofed on that one. Whitney was thrust up by earthquake action. It is interesting that Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower US, is only 50 miles from the lowest point in the US, Death Valley.

In the magnitude of Yelowstone, only 80 miles north of Whitney is the Long Valley Caldera, a super volcano whose activity is currently being monitored. That link is

http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/~battag/LVO_GIS/Intro/facts-sheet/fs108-96.html

Enjoy

37 posted on 01/03/2005 1:28:41 PM PST by forest
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