The Most Dangerous Volcano In America Is Roaring To Life

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Yard Dart, Dec 15, 2013.


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  1. Kingfish

    Kingfish Self Reliant

    Tom Swift could do it. He would just use a Tomasite coated drill head to penetrate the lava core. [touchdown]
     
  2. Motomom34

    Motomom34 Monkey+++

    Aren't they drilling into Newberry trying to gather the energy? And since they have started there is an up tick in tremors. I just don't think anyone or thing could diffuse something as big as Yellowstone.
     
  3. Dont

    Dont Just another old gray Jarhead Monkey

    I would agree there is no defusing a volcano.. The only thing you can reasonably do is remain aware of any indications of an impending event and plan a vacation out of the area..
     
  4. Motomom34

    Motomom34 Monkey+++

    I am planning on going back soon. The ground has been going up & down for years so who knows. I do think it is cool that Steamboat geyser went off this year. I thought maybe that was a sign that things are heating up & maybe they are.
     
  5. Dont

    Dont Just another old gray Jarhead Monkey

    First became aware of the potential of yellowstone when there was a report of the geologist puzzled as to why the water was draining out of the south end of yellowstone lake.
     
  6. Chuck T

    Chuck T Monkey++

  7. Motomom34

    Motomom34 Monkey+++

    Cool links. Never heard of Wah Wah.
     
  8. Chuck T

    Chuck T Monkey++

    not sure if there are any active magma chambers deep under the other 2, but as the one guy from NYU mentioned in the video on Yellowstone, if it happen once it will happen again. with this other 2 it could be millions of years or never. Yellowstone ,from everything I've seen and read has been and will stay active. Looking back on life, kinda wish i became a vulcanologist. :)
     
  9. kellory

    kellory An unemployed Jester, is nobody's fool. Banned

    " live long, and prosper";)[alien]
     
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  10. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    Yeah the Long Valley one is around 400 or so miles from us, Yellowstone is about 800. Did anyone hear about the one in Indonesia that just killed 14 people?(because the officials said there was a decrease in activity so sent everyone back from the evacuation centers, the day before it blew)
     
  11. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    Supervolcano In Yellowstone Turns Roads ‘Into Soup’ - Yahoo News
    [reddevil]
     
  12. nkawtg

    nkawtg Monkey+++

    Well I don't know. Roads there melt all the time.
     
  13. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    The 'odds' of it erupting being 'exceedingly insignificant' don't mean jack. If it's gonna, it will. And a good portion of the U.S.(well okay quite a few countries) will be S.O.L.
     
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  14. DarkLight

    DarkLight Live Long and Prosper - On Hiatus

    Never tell me the odds. - Han Solo
     
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  15. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    A recent study published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin identifies an area of great volcanic activity along the Snake River Plain between Oregon and Yellowstone.

    While scientists have long known that the supervolcano now under Yellowstone left a trail of mega-eruptions across the Pacific Northwest, an international research team has found evidence of only 12 distinct eruptions, contradicting earlier theories that the eruptions were more numerous and less extreme.

    “The size and magnitude of this newly defined eruption is as large, if not larger, than better known eruptions at Yellowstone,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Thomas Knott, in a University of Leicester press release, “and it is just the first in an emerging record of newly discovered super-eruptions during a period of intense magmatic activity between 8 and 12 million years ago.”

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    Scientists used paleomagnetic data, radioisotope dating, and rock and mineral chemistries to identify the size and location of these ancient eruptions.

    One eruption, called the Castleford Crossing eruption, produced a volcanic sheet that covers approximately 14,000 square kilometers – an area the size of Connecticut – in southern Idaho.

    Knott and his team identified 11 other super explosions that they say were likely similar in size to the well known, massive super explosions at Yellowstone.

    “While it is well-known that Yellowstone has erupted catastrophically in recent times,” said Knott, “perhaps less widely appreciated is that these were just the latest in a protracted history of numerous catastrophic super-eruptions that have burned a track along the Snake River eastwards from Oregon to Yellowstone.”

    Yellowstone certainly remains volcanically lively. In 2013, a study found that Yellowstone’s “supervolcano” was even larger than scientists had previously believed, with a magma chamber stretching 55 miles long, and 18 miles wide.

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    If the Yellowstone supervolcano explodes, says the 2013 study, the resulting eruption could be up to 2,000 times as violent as the Mt. St. Helens eruption several decades ago.

    In the spring of 2015, scientists discovered an even deeper magma chamber.

    The last Yellowstone eruption occurred 640,000 years ago – a blink of an eye in the geologic time scale, compared to the Snake River Plain explosions 8 to 12 million years ago – some remain concerned that this destructive supervolcano is ripe for an eruption.

    "Three super-eruptions at Yellowstone appear to have occurred on a 600,000-700,000 year cycle starting 2.1 million years ago," explains the BBC. "The most recent took place 640,000 years ago – suggesting Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption."

    This new study, with evidence of 12 volcanoes in about 3 million years, suggests that the Yellowstone supervolcano can erupt catastrophically on a much shorter cycle of about every 250,000 years.

    Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were even bigger than we thought
     
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  16. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    We're in a possibly fringe/borderline area for ashfall, dependent upon other factors like wind. But even if we don't get the heavy killer cloud, there'll be other problems.
     
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  17. arleigh

    arleigh Goophy monkey

    The pacific ring of fire is being more active , it is entirely possible that a great deal can shake loose all at once .
    A lot of weird stuff is happening at the same time right now .
    May be because there are better communications or that there really are extraordinary factors coming into play .
    All any one can do ,is the best they have the information to work with .
    ignoring pertinent information, though far fetched may not be wise,
    At least have a contingency in the event. ya know.
    Having been through a few disasters , It's not just a fire, or just a flood, or just an earth quake.
    Have at least an idea, or gain one.
    So far as growing things
    LED grow lights are not that expensive ,and providing a green house that can withstand snow should work well.
    Wind mills will likely be more popular than solar during such a time .and pursuing other options such as thermal power generation , and making fuels like methane or alcohol can be game changers .
    At he very least knowing How to make these things correctly so you don't blow up your self in the learning process.
     
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