To: winoneforthegipper
"Scientists recently discovered the volcano is inflating with astonishing speed."At the astonishing speed of 0.4 - 0.8 inches per year...
4 posted on
10/21/2011 5:19:16 AM PDT by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Redbob
Though thought to be dead...it’s a big boy....that’s a lot of magma intrusion.
6 posted on
10/21/2011 5:23:03 AM PDT by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: Redbob
Mt. St. Helens north face was expanding up to 50 ft./day (IIRC) right before the 1980 eruption. That’s rather more impressive.
7 posted on
10/21/2011 5:25:52 AM PDT by
Liberty1970
(30 yrs. ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash & Bob Hope.Now we have no jobs, no cash and no hope.)
To: Redbob
At the astonishing speed of 0.4 - 0.8 inches per year... From a 2007 article about Yellowstone:
The caldera floor, the ground of Yellowstone, has risen about 3 inches a year for the past three years. The rise is more than three times greater than the fastest observed since monitoring began in 1923, the study says.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/695226889/Magma-rising-fast-under-Yellowstone.html
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