Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

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[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

[Quix]

It's so

HUMBLE

of you

to tell GOD ALMIGHTY

how He HAS to do the Codes according to your specifications.

I'm sure he's real thrilled with your criteria, boundaries and specifications.

Personally, in my life and observations, I've persistently noted that God was loathe to stay in a box--even a box HE HIMSELF created--even in the Old Testament. He will certainly not fit in a box of your construction.

He's also rarely given to predicting specific dates for specific events. He did so at times through the prophets of old. He will again through prophets in our era at some point.

But I doubt very seriously that He will do so according to your specifications and schedule--or mine, for that matter.

He might even cause a Bible Code to surface at a given point in the future which will give a specific date on a specific event. But I'm skeptical He will operate that way. Just doesn't tend to be a common feature of His style.

As to blasphemy, perhaps you'd consider getting a new mirror since your own must be seriously shattered.

Sheesh!

[Paul C. Jesup]

Good estimate.

Thank you.

How do you "plug" something that can melt rock, and lift mountains?

We use the materials that can only really do it.

The base itself where the plug will be, will have to be at least the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

Both the plug and the pipes, that contain, carry and block the magma, will have to be made out of the combination of granite and diamond, both weaved together with carbon-nano-tubes. Also, if we import the basic water coolant design concepts that we use for nuclear reactors and run them along both the plug and the pipes, they should be able to hold together against the heat of the magma.

The only two problems I see, besides how to build it and the materials, would be possible magma cooling in the pipes themselves, causing a build up, blockage and blow out of the pipes, and where to channel all the magma too.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Thank you for the information

[Dick Bachert]

Ann, He may have responded further down in this thread, but light, sound and several other physical phenomenon are governed by The Law of Inverse Squares.
It states that the effect of the phenomenon falls off at the inverse square of the distance from the source.
A listener situated next to a sound source will hear 1/4 the volume by moving to 2 feet from the source (the square of 2 being 4 and the inverse is 1/4). Moving back to 3 feet away, he will hear 1/9 (the inverse square of 3 = 9, ergo 1/9). 4 feet will give him 1/16, etc., etc.
Hope this helps.

[Ann Archy]

YIKES....my head is exploding!!! :) I think I understand in my little housewife brain now.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hey!

If you can run a household, and a budget, and a buch of kids, you've got more guts (and integrity!) that 90% of the college-undereducated news-media "guru's" outthere.

Don't sell yourself short, but don't stop learning either.

Just 'cause we use math doesn't mean we've explained something (well-enough for somebody else) to understand. If it isn't clear, WE (not you) have to do a better job explaining it.

(Our mid-term test will follow in ten minutes, unless there are further questions from the class....)

[BobS]

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

Hell has an early-release program to make room for Bill, Hillary and that crowd.

[kstewskis]

She's gonna BLOW!!

[#3Fan]

The question arises, "Could a suitcase nuke, placed at a strategic location in Yellowstone, cause this supercanoe to pop?"

I doubt if it could. If that would be all it would take to blow it then it must've been close to blowing anyway.

[Justa]

I just don't follow the 600,000 number as the presumed interval between eruptions. 2,000,000 - 1,300,000 = 700,000; 1,300,00 - 640,000 = 660,000 years. This produces an average interval of 680,000 years between the last 3 eruptions. If the average is used then there's still 40,000 years before it blows. If the last interval is used then there's 20,000 years left. However, if the rate of interval decrease is applied then it should have blown 20,000 years ago (at 620,000 years).

I guess this is why we pay scientists the big bucks, so they can propose some arbitrary number and say "in the final analysis we really don't know". So we're left with prophesy, numerology, tea leaves and the Weekly World News. Maybe Bat Boy can join the USGS and figure this all out.

[DeepDish]

Roast Bear! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I can hardly wait.

[Havoc]

This is crap. Large does not mean more powerful. The eleviation of stress across such a large expanse is more likely to lessen the impact rather than intensify it. This sounds alarmist on the one hand - as touching the evidence of an eruption. Hot water and high ground temperature is just part of the equation. What about miniquakes? What is the acid level of the nearby lake being affected? What is happening to the magnetic field in and around the area?

It cannot be said that a valcano erupted 600,000 plus years ago in the area as there is no objective proof of this. It may be that a valcano erupted in the area at some time in the past; but that is as much as one can truthfully say with any precision. That one has occured in the past is all that is needed to be known. Pressure build up does not rely on time - it relies on a root cause that cannot be accurately stated as this is not a typical lava dome.

The idea of supervalcanos is a new "theory" that has come into vogue. The only thing they are going on in this case is speculation as they've never actually seen one before in action much less state with any degree of certainty that one has ever existed before. I've seen writeups on this in the last few years along with specials on vulcanology that discussed the theory of supervalcanoes.

Further study and an abundance of the kind of caution that goes with any event developing of this type is the only thing I see is neccessary. I smell science looking for more excuses to bang alarm bells and beg for government funds.

[EUPHORIC]

Is it 'don't read the messages before replying day' or what.

I read. I understood.

Just thought the word "only" in describing six feet of volcanic ash fall was a bit unappreciative of the absolute disaster that would be.

[Big Horn]

I am 200 miles away. I hope I finish reading my book first.

[EUPHORIC]

Ash can enrich the soil, so when all is said and done, the soil will be more fertial than it is right now.

Quite true. Takes quite a long time for any benefits to show though and by then the myriad corpses produced by the ensuing starvation are doing much more for the biosphere then the ash.

[#3Fan]

Yes, apparently the lake water level has risen to flood many nearby acres as the lake bottom has gone up.

I wonder what the rate of uplift is.

[#3Fan]

Ash can enrich the soil, so when all is said and done, the soil will be more fertial than it is right now.

That'll give the Chinese plenty to eat. :^)

[null and void]

I wonder what the rate of uplift is.

Subsonic. For now...

[Bernard Marx]

Everyone run with hands in air screaming end of world, it is no end of world.

Probably not. It'll just be that population "adjustment" the Malthusians have been asking for. The question is whether it'll be better to survive or die and get the misery over quickly. Surviving a disaster like that will be one rough Darwinian adventure.

Yellowstone is dangerous with worldwide implications but you might do well to study the volcanic situation in Kamchatka, a little closer to your home. Look up volcanoes like Bezymianny, Karymsky, Klyuchevskoi, Avachinsky and others. Check out the Kuril Islands too.

[mercy]

At that distance it won't be killing by energy release .... rather by burrying everything in ash.