Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[Happy2BMe]

Scientists Closely
Monitoring Yellowstone
ProLiberty.com
12-23-3

 

Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...

 

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century.

 

In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser Basin because of deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is an area that is 28 miles long by 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over five inches since 1996, and this year the ground temperature on that bulge has reached over 200 degrees (measured one inch below ground level).

 

There was no choice but to close off the entire area. Everything in this area is dying: The trees, flowers, grass and shrubs. A dead zone is developing and spreading outward. The animals are literally migrating out of the park.

 

Then during the last part of July one of the Park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake and the water temperature at the surface of the bulge has reached 88 degrees and is still rising.

 

Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake with very cold water temperatures. The Lake is now closed to the public. It is filled with dead fish floating everywhere. The same is true of the Yellowstone river and most of the other streams in the Park. Dead and dying fish are filling the water everywhere.

 

Many of the picnic areas in the Park have been closed and people visiting the Park usually stay but a few hours before leaving since the stench of sulfur is so strong they literally can't stand the smell.

 

The irony of all this is the silence by the news media and our government. Very little information is available from Yellowstone personnel or publications. What mainstream newsstories do appear underscore the likelihood of a massive volcanic eruption. Though geologists publicly admit Yellowstone is "overdue," they have been quoted as stating another massive magma release may not occur for 100,000 or 2 million years. Others close to the story are convinced that a massive eruption is imminent. A source that has demonstrated first-hand knowledge of the park's history and recent geothermal events stated the following: "The American people are not being told that the explosion of this 'super volcano' could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die. The movement of magma has been detected just three-tenths of a mile below the bulging surface of the ground in Yellowstone raising concerns that this super volcano may erupt soon."

 

 

This report was taken from a series of articles, emails and official information

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm

[Flightdeck]

Better yet, can we harness the energy through a controlled release? Instead of burying the dead for ten years, we could be supplementing our energy source. Now we just need a big battery..

[Wilhelm Tell]

I'm rather skeptical about the whole Bible Code idea, although I admit I haven't studied it extensively. It seems to me that folks get ideas and try to read these ideas into the Bible. The problem is that you can make almost anything "fit" if you try hard enough. It's like that numerology craze, where people are always predicting the date of the Second Coming or other events. They always figure that the earth is 4,000 years old, they add other dates to their "formula," and from that they "predict" when the Second Coming will occur. They start out with a false premise (that the earth is only 4,000 years old and that God has a fetish for the number 7), and read in other things that may not even be relevant. One could "prove" anything that way.

I think it appeals to people's pride to believe that God has some secret code or that the Bible has a hidden meaning, and -- praise the Lord -- one just happens to be smart enough to read God's mind and figure out all the "secret" messages! It kind of reminds me of the Gnostics, who had umpteen "Secret Gospels" from which they got all kinds of esoteric doctrines.

The plain words in the Bible can be hard enough to understand without reading in to them all sorts of marginal issues. I think people should be very careful when it comes to speculation.

[philetus]

"Doesn't say what's beneath the bulge however. Magma? Steam? Hell getting too full?"

Jiffy-Pop

[TroutStalker]

INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA	CONTACTS: KARLE, MATTHEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	(307) 344-2015, 344-2010
October 8, 2003	03-122

PORTIONS OF NORRIS GEYSER BASIN TO REOPEN TO PUBLIC

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis announced today that effective October 9, 2003, at 8:00 a.m., portions of Norris Geyser Basin that have been closed since July 23, 2003, will reopen to the public. Approximately 4,800 feet of the 5,800-foot temporary closure will reopen, with only the portion of the Back Basin trail from Green Dragon Spring to the Porkchop Geyser intersection remaining closed. (There are approximately 12,500 feet of trails in the Norris Geyser Basin.)

Norris is the hottest and most seismically active geyser basin in Yellowstone. Each year, there is a noticeable change in the color and steam discharge of many of Norris' existing geysers and thermal pools. Known as the "annual disturbance," it appears related to increased emission of deep, hot waters. This year's "annual disturbance" was larger and longer than normal and resulted in the formation of many new steam vents and significantly increased measured ground temperatures at unacceptable levels (up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit). Concern for visitor and employee safety necessitated the temporary closure. Over the last several weeks, monitored trail temperatures have significantly decreased in the closed area. Three of the four temperature monitoring sites now indicate ground surface temperatures of less than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

During this year's annual disturbance, a new thermal feature emerged near Son of Green Dragon Spring, emitting a mudflow that began spattering boiling, acidic mud onto the trail, requiring the trail closure. This feature continues to spatter mud onto the trail, and the area surrounding the new feature will remain closed until a reroute of the trail can be accomplished sometime in the spring of 2004.

-NPS-

Last Updated: Wednesday, 08-Oct-03 14:07:36
http://www.nps.gov /yell/press/03122.htm

[MeekOneGOP]

Look - in the sky - it's LAVA MAGMA!

[NorseWood]

bump

[farmfriend]

They just had a show in this on one of the educational channels. I believe that last time this volcano erupted it covered most of the US in 6' of ash.

[rintense]

VERY interesting...

[null and void]

IIRC The Hopi also said that two of their sacred symbols the rising sun, and the swastika would be used for evil just before their end times started...

[blam]

"Enough grain grown in other areas (Russia) to feed US, plus food stock."

It will be to cold to grow grain in Russia or anywhere else on earth.

[null and void]

Imagine, Hitlery winning the 2012 election and then seeing the country destroyed by a natural disaster BEFORE she can take office.

LOL! I'd love to see her face!

It's MINE!!! I was supposed to destroy it! YOU PROMISED!!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Bible Code "predictions" of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in New York would have been better received had they been published before Sept 10, 2001.

[blam]

"Iran will be sending us aid."

Iran will be starving too.

[JCEccles]

I was stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, just west of Spokane, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. It was a beautiful, sunny (slightly overcast with fluffy white clouds) and calm Sunday morning. The base had opened its gates to the public for its annual open house. Because the roads on base were filled with cars, I hopped on my bicyle to take a liesurely wheeled wander. I was travelling west along the road that runs parallel and nearest to the flight line when I glanced at the horizon saw something that sent a bolt of primal lightning fear down my spine. There on that most beautiful and clear of late Spring mornings I saw a hideous, impenetrable blackness, a curtain of ink being pulled horizontally from west to east. Not yet aware that the mountain had blown, my first thought was, "This has got to be the most powerful thunderstorm in history!" At that moment a car drove past, radio loud, window open, and I heard a voice say something about the eruption--and I knew.

As the ink curtain of doom marched steadily toward the base, preceeded by a vanguard of billowing gray and white ash, I watched as pilots tried frantically to get their aircraft airborne. I remember we had an SR-71 in for the airshow that couldn't be prepared for an escape flight quickly enough; maintenance crews pulled some KC-135 tankers out of a large hanger and sheltered the SR-71 in their place.

By one o-clock that afternoon, it was darker than midnight. I watched the ash drop like dirty rain against the smothered light of the lightpole on the street corner in front of my house.

The full experience would take much more space than I care to take up now to relate.

I was almost what--200 miles--from ground zero? And Mount St. Helens was a relatively small eruption as eruptions go. That's about how far I am from Yellowstone now. Even a small burp from the Yellowstone super-caldera would be more than I would care to witness or be subjected to.

[wingster]

"I'm rather skeptical about the whole Bible Code idea, although I admit I haven't studied it extensively. It seems to me that folks get ideas and try to read these ideas into the Bible. The problem is that you can make almost anything "fit" if you try hard enough. It's like that numerology craze, where people are always predicting the date of the Second Coming or other events. They always figure that the earth is 4,000 years old, they add other dates to their "formula," and from that they "predict" when the Second Coming will occur. They start out with a false premise (that the earth is only 4,000 years old and that God has a fetish for the number 7), and read in other things that may not even be relevant. One could "prove" anything that way.

I think it appeals to people's pride to believe that God has some secret code or that the Bible has a hidden meaning, and -- praise the Lord -- one just happens to be smart enough to read God's mind and figure out all the "secret" messages! It kind of reminds me of the Gnostics, who had umpteen "Secret Gospels" from which they got all kinds of esoteric doctrines.

The plain words in the Bible can be hard enough to understand without reading in to them all sorts of marginal issues. I think people should be very careful when it comes to speculation."

Very wise! It's also how you can tell who truly knows what the Bible says thru study and who has done what you suggest.

Matt 24: 36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

So much for the entire "Left Behind" mentality! What that also means is that no one will be able to "calculate" it in any or at any time, eh.

[Zeein]

"It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years"
So is the North Star is 60 light years away.

[wingster]

"When it blows Tom Daschle won't have a state to represent."

He may not have a state to represent beginning next fall. :D

[gitmo]

Keep those planes ready to go. God willing, that thing won't burp for millinea.

[PAR35]

Maybe the glaciers will stop at the Canadian border.

I hope not; I was planning to set up some ski runs in Florida.

[punster]

Very good! We are having an eruption of puns.

It does appear that Yellowstone has not been taking her earth control pills.