Last night I happened to hear Hugh Hewitt mention that there was a swarm of earthquakes at Yellowstone, and as far as I knew that was 'news' in mid-January, so decided to come online and find out what he was talking about currently occurring there.
Amazing how many people are really scaring large segments of the population, it's kind of reminescent of the global warming debacle.
Love the place and geology. Modern science has been able to define the magma chamber beneath the park, monitored inflation and deflation of areas over time, started to tie it into a more complex tectonic setting. What I have found frustrating with the plethora of threads on ystone here are the armchair seismologists doing the chicken little dance over an earthquake swarm - granted it is one of the longer lasting ones, but the real experts have yet to see a problem.
Amazing how many people are really scaring large segments of the population, it's kind of reminescent of the global warming debacle.
In the MSN as well as some here on FR. Its exciting, dynamic, but nothing at this stage to worry about yet.
Seismologists are not AGW and I have confidence in their current interpretations. They've been monitoring the park for decades, there is a vast historical data base for them to reference to.
As I said, I'm still planning to make it to the park this summer!
Amazing how many people are really scaring large segments of the population, it’s kind of reminescent of the global warming debacle. <<<
Yellowstone is getting ready to explode, is the hot topic and going to happen any minute, about every 5 to 7 years.
Last time, it was all the farming within 800 miles would be wiped out, by the ash.....
LOL, that is about all I recall from the last go round.