Posted on 02/04/2014 8:24:36 PM PST by Mike Darancette
A seismometer inside a borehole at Yellowstone National Park has begun reporting staggering underground activity near the southwest corner of Yellowstone Lake, possibly signaling the beginning of an eruption of the Super Volcano at the Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is home to many beauties, with it’s ancient landscape, geysers, and hot springs. It is also the site of one of the worlds most destructive forces. A supervolcano.
Yes you do. Seven billion tons of ash.
Fifty years ago the Final Days discussion was whether to shoot unprepared neighbors trying to break into your fallout shelter.
Global thermonuclear war - that amount of destruction now seems pitifully small compared to the forces of nature lying mere feet below Earth’s deceptively tranquil surface.
Only - how many ways can you spell “KABLOOIE!!!!!”
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Bttt
This is crap from Turner Radio Network. Ignore it.
"Oh, you're no fun, anymore."
It most certainly was!
The Southern hemisphere will not be as badly effected as the Northern hemisphere. The Sahara will probably bloom again as cloud cover causes weather patterns to migrate East from the Atlantic.
Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.
Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.
A full-blown eruption of Yellowstone could leave two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable…
It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.
....”For years, observers tracking earthquake swarms under Yellowstone have warned the caldera is overdue to erupt”>>>
Well nobody can say they didn’t give warning...but I have read varying articles concerning Yellowstone and though we laugh about the rumblings ...it may very well be one day it’ll be no laughing matter.
I’ve seen maps of the US as well...it will be worse than a crisis that’s for sure.
I thought it would pop closer to the blood moon April 15th.
how far will the pyoclastic cloud travel and will it go in all directions?
Sorry. What I meant to say was ...
Turner Radio Network?! This is hugh and series! All your caldera are belong to us! Gotta get in the shower now so please keep me posted!
Well, to the west it is expected to go just a few klicks past Spokane, WA.
Well, I have been predicting we might have a big one to end the current 30 year cycle of volcanos and earthquakes. Hopefully it won’t be one of Yellowstones woppers, which do seem to come at 600 to 700 thousand year intervals. On the other hand I read that they have smaller ones about every 70 years, and even one of those might be worse than Tambora.
Hell On Earth: The Yellowstone Caldera
Most of you might not know that below the peaceful park of Yellowstone lies one of the largest volcanoes on the planet. It is a resurgent caldera. According to Roger Weller, professor
at Cochise College, this is a form of volcanism in which a collapsed crater is formed after the explosive eruption of a magma chamber that has uplifted the surface of the earth. The Yellowstone caldera is also known by a different name.
It is a name given to only a select few of volcanoes around the world. It is referred to as a super volcano.
Not if, but when this volcano erupts it will be a disaster of epic proportion. The blast
would be one million times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World
War II, and one thousand times worse than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Surrounding areas of 60 miles would be completely obliterated. The entire western United States would be blanketed by ash and it could reach as far as Washington D.C. No one would be safe within one thousand miles of the eruption.
Next would come the pyroclastic flows (pyroclastic cloud) released from the eruption.
The pyroclastic flow is basically a high speed avalanche of hot ash, rock fragment, and gas that moves during explosive eruptions. The flow can reach up to fifteen-hundred degrees Fahrenheit and move at speeds ranging from one-hundred to one-hundred fifty miles per hour and is capable of knocking down and burning anything in its path. The flow from this particular eruption could reach as far as Las Vegas.
http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr/students/yellowstone2/project.htm
Thanks for posting that, I feel somewhat better now. I forgot all about those Icelandic eruptions, probably because nobody could pronounce the name of the volcano!
Shame on me for deriding the Doomsday Prepper who was preparing for a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption.
To be caught in the flow wouldn’t matter very much because it wouldn’t last very long.
If, for some reason, breathing the hot gas and volcanic ash didn’t kill you the temperature inside alone would be enough to boil your skin off. In some cases your brain would explode out of your skull due to it boiling out of control. Although you could be one of the lucky ones and just have your body literally blown to pieces after coming into contact with one of these flows.
As amazingly awful as that sounds it isn’t even the worst part. When it finally blows, the amount of volcanic ash and sulfur dioxide released into upper atmosphere could prove to be catastrophic. The gases released would create a thin cloud like sheet around the planet blocking the sun’s rays for up to approximately six years and would create a mini ice age. Temperatures would drop globally anywhere from ten to twenty degrees. Snow in June and frost in August would easily kill off the “bread basket of North America” as well as the “bread basket of Europe.”
No crops being grown would easily lead to the starvation of millions and potentially billions. Farm animals would die due to breathing in the ash being circulated. This event could easily wipe out sixty percent of the species that occupy the planet today.
Do you think bedbugs and cockroaches would survive it?
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