[gitmo]

Interesting activity.

[farmfriend]

Interesting

[lilylangtree]

Geysers suffering from irregularity--according to the commercial, there's medicine for that.

[tubebender]

PING...

[CWOJackson]

Do you recall all the storys just a couple of years ago about UN bases being secretly built in our National Parks? This would have had many of those folks headed for their bunkers.

[Mike Darancette]

TICK TICK TICK

[Valin]

I recall seeing a show on PBS a couple of years ago that said that there is a large hot spot that is slowly moving west into the Yellowstone basin. They also talked about the Cascades becoming more active.

[hemogoblin]

We just visited Yellowstone in June; here are the kids at the Fountain Paint Pots, just south of the Norris basin. Wonder if it will look rather different someday soon ...

[TEXOKIE]

I just received this email from some friends who live in the Yellowstone area:

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To whom it may concern,

It is now confirmed: North Geyser Basin (Norris Geyser) of the Park is CLOSED due to magma activity and heating.

In Yellowstone Lake....a major uplift is now occurring...it is 2500 feet long. The north end of the lake is now tilting up.

Steamboat geyser has been dormant for about 50 years. It is now ACTIVE. Sonar side scans have been taken that indicate that theYellowstone caldera **MAY** be going active also.

Please refer to the maps on the following web pages.

Yellowstone Caldera:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/Lv1Map.html

Norris Geyser Area:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/images/norrislocatormap.gif

The Yellowstone caldera was formed over 600,000 years ago. This caldera covers an area greater than 20 by 40 kilometers. It is 10 kilometers deep. It is a major caldera (see map). Scientists have predicted that IF the Yellowstone cladera blows, it will blow with a force of magnitude 8. Mt St Helen was a magnitude five explosion. If the explosive force of Mt. St. Helen is viewed as the size of a marble, the explosive force of the Yellowstone caldera would be the size of a beachball. The sound from this size of explosion would be heard around the world. The lava flows will initially range from 10km to 15km from the caldera and then spread out to a 75 kilometer radius. The ash will devastate most major crops in the USA.

Currently, the situation does not look good. Indications are that the Yellowstone caldera is getting ready to blow. If it does blow, it will surely have a devastating impact on Gardiner and the surrounding area.

Here is the site that is monitoring the activity in Yellowstone and gave out the Alert:

Here is the press release: (Near as I can tell, it's the article cited above. --TEXOKIE)
http://www.nps.gov/yell/press/0362.htm

The following articles have more details on the overall trends:

http://yowusa.com/Archive/Jun2003/volcanism1/volcanism1.htm
http://www.yowusa.com/Archive/Jul2003/volcanism2/volcanism2.htm
God bless.

[Saturnalia]

Bump and whatnot.

[Junior]

Super Volcano In Yellowstone National Park

[StriperSniper]

Discovery Channel show about this tonight:

Supervolcanoes