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Animals Leaving Yellowstone National Park: Impending Massive Eruption?

Sees

Sees

Dragonslayer
A couple years ago I tried to do some research to see if it is pretty much a guarantee that it would be a full eruption with an emptying of all plasma and what not...didn't find much.

Anybody very into this stuff who knows?
 
Penumbra

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Sees said:
A couple years ago I tried to do some research to see if it is pretty much a guarantee that it would be a full eruption with an emptying of all plasma and what not...didn't find much.

Anybody very into this stuff who knows?
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I don't think anybody knows.

It erupted a number of times, spaced erratically at an average of about 700,000 years apart, and it's been like 640,000 years since the last big one. But the cycle is not very accurate, so maybe it could erupt next year, or maybe 300,000 years from now, or maybe there will be no more big ones. They all varied in size too, because an eruption is a releasing of energy and it can be all of the energy or just some of it, erratically.

Scientists can't even realistically predict a regular volcano's eruption that happens more frequently, let alone one that's a few orders of magnitude larger and more rare.

The largest three eruptions put out hundreds of cubic miles of magma and stuff into the air (which is kind of baffling to think about), thousands of times larger than the Mt. Saint Helens eruption. It's enough to severely screw over North America and to a limited extent affect the rest of the world (physically and now because of civilization, economically).

But there's no evidence of any current eruption.
 
Sees

Sees

Dragonslayer
Penumbra said:
I don't think anybody knows.

It erupted a number of times, spaced erratically at an average of about 700,000 years apart, and it's been like 640,000 years since the last big one. But the cycle is not very accurate, so maybe it could erupt next year, or maybe 300,000 years from now, or maybe there will be no more big ones. They all varied in size too, because an eruption is a releasing of energy and it can be all of the energy or just some of it, erratically.

Scientists can't even realistically predict a regular volcano's eruption that happens more frequently, let alone one that's a few orders of magnitude larger and more rare.

The largest three eruptions put out hundreds of cubic miles of magma and stuff into the air (which is kind of baffling to think about), thousands of times larger than the Mt. Saint Helens eruption. It's enough to severely screw over North America and to a limited extent affect the rest of the world (physically and now because of civilization, economically).

But there's no evidence of any current eruption.
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Thank you for the insight :)

Hard enough being prepared for zombies :thud:
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
TurkeyOnRye said:
Just read this over. Animals leaving the park should be a serious red flag, especially concurrent with seismic activity. What do you guys think?

http://rt.com/usa/epoch-bison-yellowstone-volcano-909/
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Videos of bison seemingly fleeing Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming have sparked concerns among some bloggers that recent seismic activity could trigger the eruption of the park’s so-called supervolcano. [ibid]
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"[C]oncers among some bloggers"? Holy crap! :eek:
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
SoulDaemon said:
no reason to evacuate. The explosion, quake and the following eruption of ash in coming years to the atmosphere will wipe out a lot of people from this planet. At that point, probably, we can kiss our ***** goodbye.
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Those closest to the epicenter simply will not have time to be notified or evacuated. Between the eruption itself and the pyroclastic flow there will probably be no to very few survivors. The states surrounding though will have time to be evacuated before being buried in heaps of volcanic ash dropped on them, which because of its density (that can be as light as the heaviest of snows, up to nearly five times the density as the wet and packed-in snow) the roofs of many buildings will collapse. But we have a global food shortage now and if Yellowstone blows there will be no evacuating the food scarcity and hunger than many in America and Canada will come to know.
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Revoltingest said:
Some anti-climactic news....
Scientists dismiss claims that Yellowstone volcano about to erupt

I hope they're right. Massive devastation from a super-volcano
would be hard on those of us developing real estate.
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Relax! Of course they're right. They're blooming scientists, aren't they? Who ever heard of a daft mistake made by proper scientists? You'll be making silly claims, such as that they made tsunami levees too low in Japan, next. :shrug:

Look..... just to put you at your ease, read the words of a true scientist member, a PEP. (properly educated person.)

Quintessence said:
I think that the source of this article and the sources it relies upon are extremely suspect, and that anybody who takes it seriously was not properly instructed in school about how to assess sources of information.
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So what's the fuss about?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
oldbadger said:
Relax! Of course they're right. They're blooming scientists, aren't they? Who ever heard of a daft mistake made by proper scientists? You'll be making silly claims, such as that they made tsunami levees too low in Japan, next. :shrug:

Look..... just to put you at your ease, read the words of a true scientist member, a PEP. (properly educated person.)
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A "pep talk", eh?
 
CynthiaCypher

CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

The bison and elk are not fleeing. They are migrating to lower areas to find food.

They do it every year.
 
K

Knight of Albion

Well-Known Member
Recent earthquakes in USA, Panama and Chile...

All that fracking...

Maybe there's nothing to it. Maybe there is. We'll soon find out.
 
K

Knight of Albion

Well-Known Member
Gjallarhorn said:
Ending a statement ominously doesn't make it any more likely.
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'Ending a statement ominously'? How do you work that one out?
It's a simple statement of fact is it not? If there's anything to it, we'll soon find out. If there's nothing to it, we'll soon find that out too.
 
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