"Downwind"
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at montanasnewsstation.com ...
Actually it was a planet size asteroid that fragmented off of earth and created the moon. The moon is earth material, because an object collided with it so big that it blew apart the earth literally and formed the moon. The biggest craters on the moon, like you said are about 180-200 miles in diameter. The Deccan Traps crater is 1,500 miles. If you dont think the impact factor of lava flows that extend twice the area of the UK are bigger than almost any asteriod that has hit this planet, you need to read up on supervolcanoes. The CO2, gases, etc from and explusion are by far a number of factors bigger than any impact event, except for a couple several billion years ago.
Yes, asteroids come in all sizes, but the fact is, we don't know how large the object was that almost split this tiny planet in two.
In addition, our scientist do not know how many super impacts have occurred in the past 4.6 billion years or so, due to the changing earths surface. They have only found what still exists, or what they have stumbled upon at this point.
Yellowstone is a large volcano, but it's certainly no planet killer, nor can any volcano match the cataclysmic energy released by a large asteroid or comet striking this planets surface.
I list facts and figures and you continue to say that an asteroid would be a bigger event. I cant offer anything else. Its like debating a brick wall.
Heck, no sweat, I’m safe. At least until the earthquakes flatten everything and the ash cloud encircles the earth, killing off food growth and dooming us all to starvation in the dark. Note to self: buy some ramen noodles and flashlight batteries.
most of the country is downwind if the caldera blows.
Here a US map of recent earthquakes. The area with many are in the Mammoth area of CA Serra Nevada mountains, just as big as the Calderon as the one in Yellowstone.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
Downwind is an unknown as nobody knows what direction the prevailing winds and jet stream will take the ash.
Krakatoa waiting to be knocked of the record books?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
Yup. I'd worry if things started gettin' real quiet....
The actual chance of a supervolcanic event in yellowstone is about as much as a small asteroid hitting. Few and far between.
In that event, I don’t belive MMGW would be an issue any longer.
The Globull Warming folks think we are so powerful that we can change the atomospheric conditions of the planet? Wait till they get a load of what this could do.
“The Caldera in Yellowstone is not capable of wiping out the human race, but a large asteroid certainly is.”
I’m not willing to test that theory. Man’s reaction to either would undoubtly be our ultimate downfall. (since, as a group, we’ve become stupid)
1) Swarms like this are routine at Yellowstone.
2) Only a tiny fraction of the eruptions at Yellowstone are supervolcanic. There have been 30+ eruptions since the last supervolcanic one. None of these were catastrophes beyond the boundaries of the park.
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Read this, Toba almost did.
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
"The last glacial period was preceded by 1000 years of the coldest temperatures of the Late Pleistocene, apparently caused by the eruption of the Mount Toba volcano. The six year long volcanic winter and 1000-year-long instant Ice Age that followed Mount Toba's eruption may have decimated Modern Man's entire population. Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago.
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