How many of these earthquake professional people are online right now buying plane tickets to Australia?
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I’ve been to that Norris Geyser Basin ... and it looks like a scene out of the movie “One Million Years BC”. I almost expected to see dinosaurs walking about, among the barren and steaming land!
It’ll take a couple passes of the InSAR satellite to get new data on deformation
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/activity/methods/insar/index.php
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_monitoring_51.html
That should qualify as a separate post, as I have a feeling the data won’t be encouraging.
People should be aware, too, that Yellowstone National Park has about 1,000 earthquakes a year there. At least that’s what the Ranger told us.
Oh NOES!, It’s the Fracking!!!!
Seismic activity at the site of a super volcano is never a source of warm and fuzzy feelings.
If Yellowstone ever detonates, it’ll make what’s going on in CAL, seem like shifting sand on a beach...
All of these things are in God's hands, withheld or unleashed at His command. That's a sobering thought in light of His past forbearances and our current path.
Not sure if gods wrath or seismic activity. Was there a pagan in the park this weekend? Perhaps a homo or two copulating in a most grotesque and unnatural way.
Considering how active that location is, I’m surprised someone didn’t come along and build a city on it.
Is the Yellowstone supervolcano about to bust loose again? It may be already a little overdue.
Sure would take the fracas over Crimea off the new cycle. Might even overshadow Malaysian Flight 370.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUT8g8_Yd2Y
Please tip-toe quietly toward the exits. NO RUNNING !! Grab a bison on the way out and RUN FOR THE HILLS!
And Searles Valley in California in the last hour, too
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
“ground uplift” ?
RUH-ROH!
Here’s one for you ... this “supervolcano” averages one of its eruptions every 600,000 years. It’s now been 640,000 years since the last one.
The Yellowstone Supervolcano: New Finding —”Potential to Erupt With 2,000 Times the Force of Mount St. Helens”
A new study by the University of Utah revealed that the hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park’s supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,000 times the size of Mount St. Helens. By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long, lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said after presenting his findings last week to the American Geophysical Union. The last Yellowstone eruption happened 640,000 years ago, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The chamber is 18 miles wide and runs at depths from 3 to 9 miles below the earth, he added. That means there is enough volcanic material below the surface to match the largest of the supervolcano’s three eruptions over the last 2.1 million years, Farrell said. The largest blast — the volcano’s first — was 2,000 times the size of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. The USGS’ Yellowstone Volcano Observatory listed the park’s volcano alert level as “normal” for December.
Some scientists tracking earthquake swarms under Yellowstone have warned the caldera is overdue to erupt. Farrell dismissed that notion, saying there isn’t enough data to estimate the timing of the next eruption. “We do believe there will be another eruption, we just don’t know when.” A large earthquake at Yellowstone is much more likely than a volcano eruption, Farrell added. The 7.5-magnitude Hebgen Lake earthquake killed 28 people there in 1959.
Some 640,000 years ago there was a colossal cauldron of magma, a supervolcano, that exploded with such violence that it left an ash layer almost ten feet deep a thousand miles away in eastern Nebraska killing all plant life and covering almost all of the United States west of the Mississippi. Modern geological surveys have shown that this supervolcano erupts catastrophically every 600,000 years. The land that supervolcano is trapped in was called by Blackfoot Indians ‘the land of evil spirits’ -what we know today as Yellowstone National Park.
See much more at the link ...
February 22, 1980 saw the big shake at Yellowstone. May 18, 1980 saw Mt. St. Helens blow its top.