Forget the FLU....DATA SHOWS America about to EXPLODE!!!!

[Billy_Bob]

i dont know if its about to explode but scientist say it has exploded several times in the distant past and that its due it could be in one week or 10 thousand years ...but it will go up !

The geologic record shows it has exploded at least twice before and if I recall correctly, I think it blows something like everything 600,000 years. Technically, it's actually overdue.

Now if the Cascadia fault slips in the NW, people might have something to really worry about (as if that won't be bad enough as it is).

Maybe the Democrats really were right! Maybe Trump being president really IS the end of the world!

Yellowstone belches every 600,000 years or so. Our current time since the last major eruption 648,000 years. Were over due by about 40,000 years.

 

[toobfreak]

Obama caused this!

How so?

I think if Barry would have thrown Hillary into the volcano, it could have maybe capped it off. I know Hillary's not technically really a virgin, but Bill hasn't touched her in decades and reports are that her cold gaze alone can freeze hell over.

Worth a try.

 

[Billy_Bob]

While I'm not ready to believe YS is about to blow I'm also not ready to believe our government would warn us about it.

An imminent eruption of the Yellowstone caldera would end life on this planet as we know it.

And No, no government would say a word about it. There is no way to prepare and the effects would be global with a potential loss of 90-95% of the existing populace.

and there is absolutely nothing ......nothing we can do about it.

Maybe global warming will stop it.

Naw....

But it will definitely stop global warming dead!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Obama caused this!

How so?

It is the base republican response for anything that goes wrong.

Be more concise please.

 

[flacaltenn]

• An area at the center of the Norris Geyser Basin was found to inflate and deflate
• Experts have determined a intrusion of magma under the surface is to blame
• Magma became trapped at the top and pushed the rocks up above it
• The magma has since receded, putting the pulsating on pause for now
  An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park has been inflating and deflating by several inches over the past decade
  
  The Norris Geyser Basin, the oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in the park, was observed to rise 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015 - an unusual event that left researchers baffled.
  
  Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have determined the ground deformation was caused by magma intrusions trapped below the basin's surface.
  
  As magma made its way to the surface, the pressure pushed rocks above it up and created an erratic pulsating effect, according to National Geographic.
  
  This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, which they say is a common occurrence throughout Yellowstone.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

If we are still alive come Monday BORROW all the money you can and head WEST!!!!....PASS, KALIPORNIA!

A few days ago I said this was likely connected to the earthquake in Utah . . .

And you are right..

The earthquake in Magna Utah is on the south west Tri-radiate extending to California and the Long Valley super volcano there. The north west leg attaches to the Oregon/Washington area volcano systems. The north east leg extends towards the Madrid Fault system.

The whole tectonic plate is twisting

Hold your horse... THis is ANOTHER "worst case" environmental panic.. The doomsday explosions are at the FAR end of the spectrum of possible results.. It COULD -- in the next 10,000 years, resolve itself more gradually... Like creating a 1000 mile long river of lava down that side of the rockies and pretty much eating up the western half of Wyoming/Utah...

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

While I'm not ready to believe YS is about to blow I'm also not ready to believe our government would warn us about it.

An imminent eruption of the Yellowstone caldera would end life on this planet as we know it.

And No, no government would say a word about it. There is no way to prepare and the effects would be global with a potential loss of 90-95% of the existing populace.

and there is absolutely nothing ......nothing we can do about it.

Maybe global warming will stop it.

They have said summer will stop it in its tracks.

 

[toobfreak]

• An area at the center of the Norris Geyser Basin was found to inflate and deflate
• Experts have determined a intrusion of magma under the surface is to blame
• Magma became trapped at the top and pushed the rocks up above it
• The magma has since receded, putting the pulsating on pause for now
  An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park has been inflating and deflating by several inches over the past decade
  
  The Norris Geyser Basin, the oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in the park, was observed to rise 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015 - an unusual event that left researchers baffled.
  
  Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have determined the ground deformation was caused by magma intrusions trapped below the basin's surface.
  
  As magma made its way to the surface, the pressure pushed rocks above it up and created an erratic pulsating effect, according to National Geographic.
  
  This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, which they say is a common occurrence throughout Yellowstone.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

If we are still alive come Monday BORROW all the money you can and head WEST!!!!....PASS, KALIPORNIA!

A few days ago I said this was likely connected to the earthquake in Utah . . .

And you are right..

The earthquake in Magna Utah is on the south west Tri-radiate extending to California and the Long Valley super volcano there. The north west leg attaches to the Oregon/Washington area volcano systems. The north east leg extends towards the Madrid Fault system.

The whole tectonic plate is twisting

Hold your horse... THis is ANOTHER "worst case" environmental panic.. The doomsday explosions are at the FAR end of the spectrum of possible results.. It COULD -- in the next 10,000 years, resolve itself more gradually... Like creating a 1000 mile long river of lava down that side of the rockies and pretty much eating up the western half of Wyoming/Utah...

Nah . . . . I prefer it just go off taking about as much rock in one blast as half the Rocky Mountains into the stratosphere then covering most of the USA in about 6 feet of rock, soot and ash.

One helluva bass note.

Just after all those Hollywood stars just got done paying off the mortgage on all their custom 50 million dollar Bel Air homes.

 

[flacaltenn]

• An area at the center of the Norris Geyser Basin was found to inflate and deflate
• Experts have determined a intrusion of magma under the surface is to blame
• Magma became trapped at the top and pushed the rocks up above it
• The magma has since receded, putting the pulsating on pause for now
  An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park has been inflating and deflating by several inches over the past decade
  
  The Norris Geyser Basin, the oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in the park, was observed to rise 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015 - an unusual event that left researchers baffled.
  
  Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have determined the ground deformation was caused by magma intrusions trapped below the basin's surface.
  
  As magma made its way to the surface, the pressure pushed rocks above it up and created an erratic pulsating effect, according to National Geographic.
  
  This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, which they say is a common occurrence throughout Yellowstone.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

If we are still alive come Monday BORROW all the money you can and head WEST!!!!....PASS, KALIPORNIA!

A few days ago I said this was likely connected to the earthquake in Utah . . .

And you are right..

The earthquake in Magna Utah is on the south west Tri-radiate extending to California and the Long Valley super volcano there. The north west leg attaches to the Oregon/Washington area volcano systems. The north east leg extends towards the Madrid Fault system.

The whole tectonic plate is twisting

Hold your horse... THis is ANOTHER "worst case" environmental panic.. The doomsday explosions are at the FAR end of the spectrum of possible results.. It COULD -- in the next 10,000 years, resolve itself more gradually... Like creating a 1000 mile long river of lava down that side of the rockies and pretty much eating up the western half of Wyoming/Utah...

Nah . . . . I prefer it just go off taking about as much rock in one blast as half the Rocky Mountains into the stratosphere then covering most of the USA in about 6 feet of rock, soot and ash.

One helluva bass note.

Just after all those Hollywood stars just got done paying off the mortgage on all their custom 50 million dollar Bel Air homes.

I think you've reached your crisis limit... Time to call a cab....

 

[Billy_Bob]

• An area at the center of the Norris Geyser Basin was found to inflate and deflate
• Experts have determined a intrusion of magma under the surface is to blame
• Magma became trapped at the top and pushed the rocks up above it
• The magma has since receded, putting the pulsating on pause for now
  An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park has been inflating and deflating by several inches over the past decade
  
  The Norris Geyser Basin, the oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in the park, was observed to rise 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015 - an unusual event that left researchers baffled.
  
  Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have determined the ground deformation was caused by magma intrusions trapped below the basin's surface.
  
  As magma made its way to the surface, the pressure pushed rocks above it up and created an erratic pulsating effect, according to National Geographic.
  
  This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, which they say is a common occurrence throughout Yellowstone.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

If we are still alive come Monday BORROW all the money you can and head WEST!!!!....PASS, KALIPORNIA!

A few days ago I said this was likely connected to the earthquake in Utah . . .

And you are right..

The earthquake in Magna Utah is on the south west Tri-radiate extending to California and the Long Valley super volcano there. The north west leg attaches to the Oregon/Washington area volcano systems. The north east leg extends towards the Madrid Fault system.

The whole tectonic plate is twisting

Hold your horse... THis is ANOTHER "worst case" environmental panic.. The doomsday explosions are at the FAR end of the spectrum of possible results.. It COULD -- in the next 10,000 years, resolve itself more gradually... Like creating a 1000 mile long river of lava down that side of the rockies and pretty much eating up the western half of Wyoming/Utah...

Yellowstone is not known for playing well with others...

 

[Billy_Bob]

Lets put this into perspective....

 

[White 6]

Worst case scenarios are always more dramatic than most likely scenarios. If memory serves, there have been a bunch more smaller eruptions that did not blow up northern Wyoming than the few cataclysmic that did, each one releasing pressure of the slowly moving hot spot. Doubt any of us will be around to see the big blast. If interested, check out Mary Greely on Youtube. She has been predicting doom as long as I can remember, and needs you support now that Youtube demonetized her blog.

 

[The Purge]

Obama caused this!

How so?

It is the base republican response for anything that goes wrong.

I see you missed the Soros fan club meeting!!!

 

[JGalt]

i dont know if its about to explode but scientist say it has exploded several times in the distant past and that its due it could be in one week or 10 thousand years ...but it will go up !

The Greentards will be happy if it does blow up. That would mean the end of global warming, and they could pet the Mastodons.

 

[ReinyDays]

Lord above ... people just like being afraid I guess ...

First and foremost ... Yellowstone isn't the type of volcano that explodes ... it's a hotspot volcano, just like Hawai'i, and Hawai'i has been erupting now for decades ... just a couple years ago we had the Leilani Estates fissures open up and spew lava ... look it up, no explosions ... yes, this is what we can expect from Yellowstone, fissures and lava but no big explosions ... Mt St Helens, Mt Mazama, Krakatoa, Mt Pinatubo, Mt Fuji are all volcanic arc features that arise from a subduction zone ... the main difference is the source of magma, for hotspots the source is the mantle (runny and flowing), volcanic arcs the source is mid-lithosphere (lumpy and thick) ...

Second ... this heaving of the caldera floor is common ... happens in the Cascades on a fairly regular basis and is being studied in detail ... "This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion" is just plain horseshit ... we'd see 8,000 feet of added elevation through dome building before the magma chamber is filled up, if it were to build up through dome building, and that does seem unlike at this time ...

The most likely eruptive scenario will be a single fissure opening up and spewing runny lava, perhaps flowing to the NP border ... then in a 10,000 years this activity will be ramping up and we'll see these flood basalts reaching the Missouri River ... 100,000 years to reach the Mississippi ... and a million years to reach New Orleans ... it would be a mess but folks will have plenty of time to move out of the way ...

Short version - "Columbia River Basalt Group - Related to Cascade Volcanoes?" - Central Washington University, Geology Department - 2013 {YouTube 2'58"}
Long version - "Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest" - Central Washington University, Geology Department - 2017 {YouTube 62'34"}

 

[toobfreak]

Obama caused this!

How so?

It is the base republican response for anything that goes wrong.

I see you missed the Soros fan club meeting!!!

Can you just imagine the outrage if TRUMP fist-bumped some kid? Maybe a Boy Scout? The furor would be on every front page! Every talk show!

 

[Billy_Bob]

Lord above ... people just like being afraid I guess ...

First and foremost ... Yellowstone isn't the type of volcano that explodes ... it's a hotspot volcano, just like Hawai'i, and Hawai'i has been erupting now for decades ... just a couple years ago we had the Leilani Estates fissures open up and spew lava ... look it up, no explosions ... yes, this is what we can expect from Yellowstone, fissures and lava but no big explosions ... Mt St Helens, Mt Mazama, Krakatoa, Mt Pinatubo, Mt Fuji are all volcanic arc features that arise from a subduction zone ... the main difference is the source of magma, for hotspots the source is the mantle (runny and flowing), volcanic arcs the source is mid-lithosphere (lumpy and thick) ...

Second ... this heaving of the caldera floor is common ... happens in the Cascades on a fairly regular basis and is being studied in detail ... "This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion" is just plain horseshit ... we'd see 8,000 feet of added elevation through dome building before the magma chamber is filled up, if it were to build up through dome building, and that does seem unlike at this time ...

The most likely eruptive scenario will be a single fissure opening up and spewing runny lava, perhaps flowing to the NP border ... then in a 10,000 years this activity will be ramping up and we'll see these flood basalts reaching the Missouri River ... 100,000 years to reach the Mississippi ... and a million years to reach New Orleans ... it would be a mess but folks will have plenty of time to move out of the way ...

Short version - "Columbia River Basalt Group - Related to Cascade Volcanoes?" - Central Washington University, Geology Department - 2013 {YouTube 2'58"}
Long version - "Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest" - Central Washington University, Geology Department - 2017 {YouTube 62'34"}

I think, as do many other scientists, that Yellowstone is an odd duck. While I agree that it is a "hot spot" volcano it has two different flow supplies as seen in the University of Utah's recent survey of the caldera's magma chambers.

Geologists Unveil New Map Of Magma System Under Yellowstone Supervolcano

"According to Huang and his colleagues, both chambers are fed by and connected to the mantle plume driving the Yellowstone system. This plume produces fractional melting, which leads to compositional difference between the two chambers. The upper chamber houses more silica-rich, explosive rhyolitic magma, while the lower chamber contains more silica-poor, less explosive basaltic magma."

...

"Fortunately, says Farrell, “The magma chamber and reservoir are not getting any bigger than they have been, it’s just that we can see them better now using new techniques.” That means the annual chance of eruption at Yellowstone remains 1 in 700,000, which translates to one or two catastrophic caldera eruptions in a million years. Although we don’t expect to get much warning before disaster strikes, for now all is clear with no signs of impending doom. What the new mapping does do is allow other researchers to have a better handle on the system, constraining their models of the seismic and volcanic hazards in Yellowstone."

........


While it is somewhat like the Hawaiian volcanoes it is very different and has periodic burst events.

 

[ReinyDays]

Indeed ... good information ... what we're watching for is the seismographic signatures of magma moving up into the chamber ... so we'll certainly have time to close the park, get face masks out to downwinders ... once the fissures open up and the lava flows, we can evacuate as needed, just like in Hawai'i ...

Yellowstone is alike in many ways with Hawai'i ... and certainly different in many others ... on balance though, do we expect an explosive event on the order of Krakatoa or Vesuvius? ... Yellowstone isn't that much different ...

Do you have a cite for these explosive events? ...

 

[Billy_Bob]

Indeed ... good information ... what we're watching for is the seismographic signatures of magma moving up into the chamber ... so we'll certainly have time to close the park, get face masks out to downwinders ... once the fissures open up and the lava flows, we can evacuate as needed, just like in Hawai'i ...

Yellowstone is alike in many ways with Hawai'i ... and certainly different in many others ... on balance though, do we expect an explosive event on the order of Krakatoa or Vesuvius? ... Yellowstone isn't that much different ...

Do you have a cite for these explosive events? ...

If the upper chamber is the one filling it will be an explosive event. Its a matter of which magma is causing the pressures. If its filling with rhyolitic magma it will be explosive. One need only look at the geological record to see these events.

Posts 30 and 31 have the information you seek.

 

[Tax Man]

Obama caused this!

How so?

It is the base republican response for anything that goes wrong.

I see you missed the Soros fan club meeting!!!

Can you just imagine the outrage if TRUMP fist-bumped some kid? Maybe a Boy Scout? The furor would be on every front page! Every talk show!

tRump could not fist bump anyone as he is to stupid.

 

[westwall]

• An area at the center of the Norris Geyser Basin was found to inflate and deflate
• Experts have determined a intrusion of magma under the surface is to blame
• Magma became trapped at the top and pushed the rocks up above it
• The magma has since receded, putting the pulsating on pause for now
  
  
  
  
  An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park has been inflating and deflating by several inches over the past decade
  
  The Norris Geyser Basin, the oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in the park, was observed to rise 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015 - an unusual event that left researchers baffled.
  
  Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have determined the ground deformation was caused by magma intrusions trapped below the basin's surface.
  
  As magma made its way to the surface, the pressure pushed rocks above it up and created an erratic pulsating effect, according to National Geographic.
  
  This is the first time the scientific community has been able to track an entire episode of magma intrusion, which they say is a common occurrence throughout Yellowstone.
  
  
  
  

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

If we are still alive come Monday BORROW all the money you can and head WEST!!!!....PASS, KALIPORNIA!

This is a minor case of indigestion for Yellowstone. Yes, the government will tell you when there is a major eruption about to occur because it will be OBVIOUS. When the entire region begins to rise (called Regional Tumescence) then, you have cause to worry. And it won't be rising by mere inches. The entire Yellowstone region will rise hundreds of feet before the eruption (called a Giant Caldera Eruption) occurs.

But when it does happen in 10,000 years or so, all life downwind will perish.