Posted on 12/29/2008 12:04:05 AM PST by dannyprimrose1
Edited on 12/29/2008 12:22:27 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - The University of Utah Seismograph Stations report a swarm of small earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park.
The university says the quakes of magnitude 3.5 and lower have been occurring beneath Yellowstone Lake, five to nine miles south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, a park landmark.
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Is this in the same area as the super caldera? Ruh-oh.
The people in that region, and downwind better hope another massive eruption never occurs in that area again.
Yeah, the one that capable of wiping out a great deal of humanity.
The people in that region and downwind and on this continent better hope it doesnt happen.
You bet, but those downwind of prevailing winds, west to east/southeast will take the brunt.
Thanks for that graphic. I think even drudge has something up on it now. If anything ever did happen it would be a life changing event worldwide. A lot of people dont realize the destruction such an event would do to the planet. Mt St Helens would be a very tiny burp in comparison.
I think they would be annihalated. A supervolcanoe is analogous to an asteroid of significance hitting this planet. It would be a world wide event in what it would belch out. Check out the Deccan Traps in India for an example. Its thought that that is what wiped out the dinosaurs. Not the asteroid in south america.
You’re welcome!
I saw the Discovery Channel program about the supervolcano at Yellowstone—absolutely boggles the mind the size of that caldera and the possibility of complete annihilation of life here as we know it if it erupts again! {shudders}
I saw that too. Maybe the Incan calendar is right. Who know what will happen in 2012. Economies collapse, fierce weather, Obama getting elected again, who knows?
I read about that, but I don’t subscribe to it. I believe it was an asteroid that took out the dinosaurs. The earth has been hit by some asteroids, impacts so intense, they’d make the last caldera eruption in Yellowstone seem tiny in comparison. Impacts so great, if they occurred today, could wipe out the human race.
The Caldera in Yellowstone is not capable of wiping out the human race, but a large asteroid certainly is.
Yikes! That’s not good.
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The Deccan Traps event spewed out more sulphur, CO2 and toxin than the C-Club crater by a factor of a thousand. And that asteroid was 6 MILES wide. It would have to be an asteriod the size of the planet Mercury to outdo a supervolcano.
You not taking into the account the cataclysmic impact factor, and the resulting energy released.
Look at the lunar surface. There are craters there that are over 180 miles in diameter, some with shockwave, blast zones rays that extend for over 1500 miles across the surface.
Nothing on this planet could equal the energy and resulting devastation by a large asteroid impacting the earths surface.
Another fact is, man has not located or discovered all of the super large asteroid/comet impact sites, due to the fact we have large oceans, and our surface environment constantly is changing.
Sorry, but a large asteroid impact kicks your volcano's butt.
The Deccan Traps is one of the largest volcanic provinces on the planet. The basaltic lava flows that occurred around 70 million years ago cover an area of over 500,000 square kilometres. That is twice the size of the whole of the United Kingdom.
“The crater atop Mount St. Helens is about 2 square miles. The Yellowstone “caldera” — a depression in the Earth equivalent to a crater top — is some 1,500 square miles.
The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption blew 1,300 vertical feet off the mountain, sent an eruption column 80,000 feet high in 15 minutes, ejected 1.4 billion cubic yards of ash detectable over 22,000 square miles, and killed 57 people.
But the last major eruption at Yellowstone, some 640,000 years ago, ejected 8,000 times the ash and lava of Mount St. Helens”
Just to give an idea of the size of this thing. From Discovery Channel.
Let me put it this way, next time you look up at the lunar surface, ask yourself how the moon got there.
Current research tells us it was a very large asteroid, possibly a comet or another object impacting the earth.
Lets see a volcano do that.
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