I think it bears watching.
They ARE!.....................
Posted on 04/20/2016 8:53:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Over the past week, our planet has been hit by large earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery, there are 38 volcanoes around the world that are erupting right now. We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone is so incredibly alarming.
Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the country would immediately become uninhabitable. As you will see below, there are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever.
I want to share with you some footage from Yellowstone that was recorded on Thursday night. In this video, it appears to be as bright as day even though it is the middle of the night, you can see a whole host of geysers steaming violently, and Old Faithful just keeps going off over and over.
This stunning footage was posted by a YouTube user known as Kat Martin 2016, and the following is what she had to say about the video that you just saw:
There are places s(t)eaming I have never seen steam before....and also note that the bright ground is back. There are no shadows, so it is not from above! As you know the cameras were froze up last night, so we could not see what was going ....or so we thought LOL...I found a way. Somehow (don't ask me how), the Geyser Observation Study site was able to capture the ENTIRE night with NO freeze ups and cutting in and out....how is THAT? Anyway, I got it and slowed it down so you can see better. Old Faithful had weird seismos last night, and was going off constantly.
But it wasn't just that one night. The weird activity at Yellowstone has continued, and you can watch even more recent footage that Kat Martin has posted right here and right here.
So what does this mean?
I don't know, but watching that footage definitely got my attention.
And it is interesting to note that just a few weeks ago the Shoshone River changed color and started boiling without any warning whatsoever:
The Shoshone River, near Yellowstone National Park, suddenly and without warning started boiling, changed color and began to emit a sulfuric odor on March 25. Nearby witnesses wondered if they were "all going to die." The current consensus among geologists and other experts is that a portion of the Shoshone River began to boil, located near Cody, Wyoming, and a new Yellowstone vent has opened up.
As Mysterious Universe reports, the boiling river near Yellowstone runs just east of Yellowstone National Park. It is close enough to the park and super volcano to be a "canary in a coal mine" as it relates to unusual geothermic events. The event was initially recorded by Dewey Vanderhoff, a photographer who spotted the Shoshone River near Yellowstone boiling and noted other bizarre features in the river.
When a river located above a supervolcano that could wipe out most of the country starts boiling, you would think that would make headline news all over the nation.
But it didn't.
It would be exceedingly difficult to overstate the potential danger that Yellowstone poses to the United States. Other than an extremely large asteroid or meteor, it is hard to imagine any natural disaster that would pose a greater threat. The following comes from an excellent article by Steve Elwart:
The Yellowstone Caldera, or cauldron, sits on top of North America's largest volcanic field. Four hundred miles under the Earth's surface is a magma 'hotspot' that reaches up to just 30 miles below ground level before spreading out over an area of 300 miles across three states.
Over all this sits the volcano.
While most scientists believe the probability of a major eruption is very small, there are signs that have some analysts worried, and most agree the volcano holds catastrophic potential. It could blast 240 cubic miles of ash, rocks and lava into the atmosphere, rendering about two-thirds of the nation immediately uninhabitable, according to some estimates, and plunge the world into a "nuclear winter."
That certainly does not sound good.
And as I mentioned above, volcanic activity all over the planet is rising. 38 volcanoes are erupting at the moment, and it seems like we hear about another new eruption almost every day now.
But let us hope that Yellowstone does not erupt any time soon.
There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the area around Yellowstone every single year, so it is a very seismically active region. In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire northwest United States will be completely destroyed. Basically everything within a 100 mile radius would be immediately killed, Salt Lake City would literally be toast, and almost everyone and everything in Denver would be dead in short order.
Further away, volcanic ash would rain down continually for weeks. Those foolish enough to step outside would quickly discover that the ash turns into a substance similar to cement in the lungs, and many would die from suffocation.
The amount of volcanic ash released by Yellowstone would be almost unimaginable. In fact, it has been estimated that a full-blown eruption would dump a layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away.
Food production in America would be almost totally wiped out, and the "volcanic winter" that would result from a Yellowstone eruption would dramatically cool the planet. Some have projected that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.
In the end, the death, famine and destruction that we would experience would be vastly greater than anything that we have ever seen in the history of western civilization.
So yes, there is reason to be concerned that weird stuff is going on at Yellowstone right now.
Let us just hope and pray that we do not see an eruption in 2016 or anytime soon.
Michael T. Snyder is the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and author of The Beginning of the End.
Heh! Good one!
That doesn’t look good...
I think it bears watching.
How is Mexico going to feel when we all move down there!
Fracking? I think not.
A planet in a long elliptical orbit approaching from the south? Possibly.
Most likely a domino effect, one is setting the others off.
IIRC the Yellowstone caldera has been rising for years and
they’ve been saying it’s due to blow. The last time was
over 600K years ago, so what are the odds?
It is not “hot enough to glow”. Some of the minerals emitted are naturally phosphorescent...like phophorous, and radium for example.
Settled science.
Or you could say it’s almost certain to happen eventually and it’s just as likely to happen next month as any other time.
its not the ground thats glowing
it is a night time camera so the ground looks light because of any one of a number of reasons, but it is not glowing
probable the dew on the ground- since the steam is the same white color
Oooh! goody
I was disappointed at what a flop 12/12/12 turned out to be
Nope. That’s 4 minutes of timelapse video of Old Faithful just steaming, not actually erupting. It can steam for a long time after it finishes actually erupting, and the steam is more dramatic if it’s cold (there’s snow on the ground). As to the nonsense about “bright ground”, that’s nothing more than a combination of snow and a camera with a wide f-stop aperture so it can record in low light conditions. It’s shocking (or maybe not) how willfully-ignorant people will make themselves to serve their pet theories.
Not saying there aren’t or won’t be some kind of reaction from Yellowstone to all the activity on the RoF, but that video hurts rather than helps such claims.
I think it bears watching.
They ARE!.....................
I think they divide number of instances by infinity then they can assure us nothing to see here, just move along and behave. Crowd control is always more of an issue for the authorities than just about anything else.
The faux-Science channel. Between all the crap commercials and making a 20 minute show into an hour by packing in drama and unfounded opinion I gave it up a while back.
That’s nice. What does a normal cold, clear night look like?
Story says even though it’s night it looks like broad daylight.
A full moon and low light camera will do that, and allow one to see the stars in the background...
Well we know how they have nailed the climate change thing. We have seen the poles disappear, hurricanes devastate the gulf and atlantic coast, huge megastorms sucking up metro areas in force 6-7-8 tornadoes, coastal cities like Miami and NYC underwater and the disappearance of snow forever.
Ummm right??
The hot spot is moving NorthWest, toward the Bighorn mountains. I've heard some scientists posit that if it gets under the mountain range before the next major eruption, we may not see another one for a long time.
Oh MAN. Here we go.
The doomsday people have got their attention they wanted. The problem here is, the USGS didnt do themselves any good by taking the seismic chart offline. Hen, one of the head honchos that the U of Utah told one that he wouldnt talk about why.
Here are the facts as I have read them and told by a geologist. That thing goes off, and it will someday, it could well be a global extinction event. It depends on the size of the eruption-meaning even the smallest one historically was much bigger than Tambora? in the early 1800s.
That one caused global famine. Will it go this year? Next Year? When? Nobody knows. But, if anyone thinks that they are safe if outside the fallout zone, they are mistaken. It will cause global cooling worldwide and most of the earths population will die.
So, running around like shickens with your head chopped off isnt going to do any good. Best thing is to get out of the way-which is the responsibilty of the USGS and other agencies. How much time would there be? Weeks.
The one disaster I see happening way before Yellowstone is the Cascadia Fault. That one is close to happening.
But Yogi, the ranger isn't gonna like it...
F#$% the ranger Boob....the place is about to blow and I'm not going on an empty stomach.....
OH. YELLOWstone....
never mind.
Jedi.
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