rgp
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As per a report just heard on the news....some experts say Yellowstone is about to erupt ? Could be in just hours ?
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rkunsaw
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When it erupts, I think we'll all know it.
rgp
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No doubt'bout that. I just caught a blurb on fox business news....didn't get all that was said. Hopefully they are wrong !
Don M.
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Just in case...I just took a quick scan of a couple of news site...not a word about Yellowstone. Any mention of Yellowstone erupting is probably a Facebook or Twitter post by someone with excess time on their hands. IF/WHEN Yellowstone erupts we will all know it within minutes to hours. Those in close proximity will be wiped out within seconds/minutes, and the rest of the nation will be faced with massive disaster within hours/days. A Yellowstone eruption would be similar to the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs....massive climate change, and a major share of the global population wiped out as food, etc., runs out.
Traveler
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There are many people on the www that just love to stir things up. (no I'm NOT talking about rgp).
One week it is about aliens living in the White House and the next week it is about how the American Govt was behind the 9/11 attacks and every other goofy idea under the sun.
There is no doubt that the Yellowstone super-volcano will erupt SOMEDAY, but the odds that it will blow in our life-time is almost non-existent.
Minor earthquakes, magnitude 1, 2 and 3, are a normal thing in the western half of the U.S.
The last time the Yellowstone super volcano blew was 631,000 years ago and it laid waste every living thing within a 1,000 mile radius. Just to make a comparison, the difference between Mount St. Helens and the Yellowstone super volcano is the difference between a .22 caliber pistol and a 105 mm howitzer.
If Yellowstone starts experiencing earthquakes of 5 or 6 then I'll start paying serious attention.:eek1:
One week it is about aliens living in the White House and the next week it is about how the American Govt was behind the 9/11 attacks and every other goofy idea under the sun.
There is no doubt that the Yellowstone super-volcano will erupt SOMEDAY, but the odds that it will blow in our life-time is almost non-existent.
Minor earthquakes, magnitude 1, 2 and 3, are a normal thing in the western half of the U.S.
The last time the Yellowstone super volcano blew was 631,000 years ago and it laid waste every living thing within a 1,000 mile radius. Just to make a comparison, the difference between Mount St. Helens and the Yellowstone super volcano is the difference between a .22 caliber pistol and a 105 mm howitzer.
If Yellowstone starts experiencing earthquakes of 5 or 6 then I'll start paying serious attention.:eek1:
rgp
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oooops you forgot Elvis working at Burger King...
Talked to a friend of mine in California...he said the part i heard was not the full report. The full report was more along the line of ....the someday prediction , as you noted.
I have been to Mt St Helen and the visitor center....They have the eruption all on film that they play on a movie screen. I couldn't describe it properly anyway, so I won't attempt. But all who can should see it...Lord the power of nature !...it is scary to watch on screen ! I can't imagine having been there.
What is known as the blow-down zone is 17 miles from the volcano itself.
The pyroclastic flow traveled at speeds between 300 & 600!!! MPH
If I remember correctly [i was there in 1998] There was enough lumber destroyed to build a house for every person in the entire state of [i believe] Pennsylvania .
There have been a couple of very small earthquakes, magnitude about 1.6. That's so small that usually an earthquake of that magnitude isn't even detected, except by seismologists with their instruments. When I lived out west, we had an earthquake of about 6.3 magnitude. Even that wasn't particularly catastrophic, mostly just things fell off shelves, etc. In my community, not a single house came down.
This sounds like the same sort of fear-mongering I remember from my childhood, when all the kids were whispering that the end of the world was supposed to come on Tuesday morning at 10:30. Of course, we were in school, and at that time, every kid was staring at the clock.
Some things never change.
This sounds like the same sort of fear-mongering I remember from my childhood, when all the kids were whispering that the end of the world was supposed to come on Tuesday morning at 10:30. Of course, we were in school, and at that time, every kid was staring at the clock.
Some things never change.
Traveler
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I watched Mount St. Helens erupt in May of 1980 from my balcony in S.W. Portland. I don't remember exactly how many miles away St Helens is by air from Portland but it was plenty close enough for me. Odd how something so destructive, can at the same time be so awe inspiring.
I was living in Fairfield California in 1989 when the 7.2 magnitude quake struck just south-west of San Francisco. Even though I was almost 2 hours drive away from the epicenter it still caused my building to really rock and roll. As I dashed out-side and looked down the street, I could see all of the telephone poles swaying back and forth like tall reeds in a high wind.
As I turned toward the center of the apt complex I could see the water in the swimming pool slosh first to one end then back to the other, over and over again. When the shaking stopped, 2 feet of water had sloshed out of the swimming pool.
Of all the things I've been through in my life, big earthquakes are the absolute scariest. Maybe because of the suddenness. A 7.2 quake is pretty darn big. One second I was just getting set to watch the World Series and the next second everything starts jumping around.
Earthquakes are strange things. Sometimes it sounds and feels like a heavy truck hit the building. Sometimes they cause the hanging plants to sway but no sound. Mankind likes to think that we are powerful but we don't hold a candle to the power of Mother Nature when she decides to get up on her hind-legs and roar.
I was living in Fairfield California in 1989 when the 7.2 magnitude quake struck just south-west of San Francisco. Even though I was almost 2 hours drive away from the epicenter it still caused my building to really rock and roll. As I dashed out-side and looked down the street, I could see all of the telephone poles swaying back and forth like tall reeds in a high wind.
As I turned toward the center of the apt complex I could see the water in the swimming pool slosh first to one end then back to the other, over and over again. When the shaking stopped, 2 feet of water had sloshed out of the swimming pool.
Of all the things I've been through in my life, big earthquakes are the absolute scariest. Maybe because of the suddenness. A 7.2 quake is pretty darn big. One second I was just getting set to watch the World Series and the next second everything starts jumping around.
Earthquakes are strange things. Sometimes it sounds and feels like a heavy truck hit the building. Sometimes they cause the hanging plants to sway but no sound. Mankind likes to think that we are powerful but we don't hold a candle to the power of Mother Nature when she decides to get up on her hind-legs and roar.
