Posted on 12/31/2008 6:55:35 PM PST by Flavius
Nearly 400 earthquakes have rocked Yellowstone National Park since last Friday. The quakes are putting scientists on alert, but they say this type of activity isn't unusual. As long as the quakes continue, the park will keep a very close eye on the region.
Hank Heasler, the Park's Geologist, said "Back in 1985, up to 3 months of earthquakes (occured). (They were) up to magnitudes 4.7. So the past four days have been relatively energetic for the last few years."
Scientists say predicitng earthquakes is still in it's infancy and not reliable. Park officials are not worried that this swarm of quakes could lead to a catastrophic event. However with the lack of accurate forecasting it is possible that these small tremors could be a precursor to a much bigger quake or even a volcanic eruption.
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“The Chinese or Russians...We’d have nothing they want.”
The Chinese or Russians would be very busy dealing with their own weather/crop calamities. A Y eruption similar to the one 600K years ago would probably lead to several BILLION deaths by disease, starvation and war.
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Sorry. Pulled the trigger too fast.
I agree with your analysis on further reflection.
Imho, the main problems in the US would be infrastructure failure, particularly for older people who live alone, and cities in the path (or experiencing electrical supply failures as a consequence of the eruption for example). If a big enough eruption happened in just the wrong place, your figure is at least high enough, maybe too low. Just about a century ago there was a monsoon failure in India leading to drought, crop failure, and starvation, and there simply was no way to cope with it. With India’s current population, if an eruption gave a similar result (crop failure, drought, cold, etc), it would have an impact on more than a billion Indians, and perhaps hundreds of millions of others in southern and SE Asia.
Has there been anymore activity?
Have you heard anything lately?
looks pretty quiet over the past couple of days.
It seems to have died down considerably. Not much going on there now that isn’t unusual.
looks like low level activity picking back up this AM
Yeah, looked at the seismograph - compare yesterday to like January 2, that was scary.
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