Will the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt in your lifetime?
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I hope not but it's gona happen 1 day and when it blows I'm not so sure many of us would survive that... or want to.
just like others.i have no earthly idea on when it will erupt..BUT i do know it will again one day..to much lava there for it not to..
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I saw a nat geo episode on it that showed an old steam boat that sunk in a lake there in the 20's. The lake bed has been rising all these years and now the steel ribs of the boat are visible above the surface. I think I'm far enough away that I could survive the initial blast, but it would change everything globally. I don't know if the food chain could remain intact for long with all that ash in the atmosphere. Definitely scary stuff!
Didn't know about the lake rising and now you can see the boat, that's really concerning, I'm in Scotland and I know I wouldn't survive the aftermath of yellowstone.
yeah brent i saw that one as well..and if i remember right.that sunken ship is close to the shore line now..
yeah..i located 2 earthquakes..one outside of ivins utah.and another outside of tahoe vista california.and they both took place on 04/04/2014 and both are just outside of nevada.
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There is multiple quakes in yellowstone annually up to 3k a year! The caldera is constantly venting and that's a good thing, I really don't see it erupting in my lifetime or my kids!
Hope your right, my brother in law and my entire wife's nephews and their family live in Belgrade, Montana, which is over the hill from Bozeman...they would be certainly be engulfed if the Yellowstone blows. But your right, its a good thing the caldera vents, because if it didn't, who knows what would happen with an expanding dome of gas, super heated molten, things could go very bad for the rest of us too.
If I remember right it blows every 600,000 yrs and is over due now. Luckily in geologic time, 50,000 yrs or so is insignificant. To give you an idea of how powerful it is, there are no Rocky Mountains west of Yellowstone. The plates slide westward, and a long long time ago when the mountains were over it when it blew, poof, no more mountains! I was surprsed to learn that Yellowstone is only one of about 8 so called super volcanoes around the globe. Even when it blowes, the world will continue. Anyone within a couple states will die quickly, and the food supply will be interrupted for a long while, but life will go on. I don't think Scotland would be affected too bad, but the states would be changed forever. My motto is still work on the things you can control, and don't sweat the rest.
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It would be catastrophic for sure, but where my BOL is located, the New Madrid Fault has much more potential for destruction.
In 1811-1812, The New Madrid quakes rang church bells in Boston, 1200 miles away.
In 1811-1812, The New Madrid quakes rang church bells in Boston, 1200 miles away.
"Eruptions of the Yellowstone volcanic system have included the two largest volcanic eruptions in North America in the past few million years; the third largest was at Long Valley in California and produced the Bishop ash bed. The biggest of the Yellowstone eruptions occurred 2.1 million years ago, depositing the Huckleberry Ridge ash bed. These eruptions left behind huge volcanic depressions called “calderas” and spread volcanic ash over large parts of North America (see map). If another large caldera-forming eruption were to occur at Yellowstone, its effects would be worldwide. Thick ash deposits would bury vast areas of the United States, and injection of huge volumes of volcanic gases into the atmosphere could drastically affect global climate. Fortunately, the Yellowstone volcanic system shows no signs that it is headed toward such an eruption in the near future. In fact, the probability of any such event occurring at Yellowstone within the next few thousand years is exceedingly low." -USGS
When Mount St. Helen's blew the ash was horrific, the photo is a state trooper vehicle a couple of hundred miles east of the mountain, we all gone to the local hardware store to purchase dryer hoses and make up some make-shift filter, it only marginally helped, the engine compartment had to be cleaned daily, we took our cars and trucks to the local buggy wash to clean the vehicles we learned very fast NOT to use water (ash and water don't mix) we had to use air, in my area I got a little over 8" of ash, lucky I was home on leave and tend to my property. Later on we converted most of the vehicles filtration to the old school oil-bath filters with a secondary above hood 2-layer filter.
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My brother was at the air force base out there when St. Helens blew. He told me a lot about it, but I love the cop car filtration. The map kind of makes St. Helens look like chump change compared to Yellowstone. Thanks for the research in finding the map. It gives a realistic look at what the power that thing has.
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does this look legit?
http://civictribune.com/yellowstone-evacuated-experts-claim-super-volcano-erupt-within-weeks/
The writer doesn't look it but any news from anywhere else talking about this?
does this look legit?
http://civictribune.com/yellowstone-evacuated-experts-claim-super-volcano-erupt-within-weeks/
The writer doesn't look it but any news from anywhere else talking about this?
Maverick..
Love the post..thanks so much. I am always learning something from you. So I take it the snow plows were used to grade the ash off the road? Any chance you kept the plans on how the converted the vehicles with the oil-bath filters? I'd love to see if I could duplicate one over the winter? I know a good friend of mine who was at Clark AB, Philippines when Pinatubo blew...ash was similar and they made some home-made filters from vehicles, but like your experience, they were always cleaning the filters and any of the air intake areas.
Really enjoyed the photo.
seismic activity is normal, the norris temp is normal, pnsn has not been alerted, yellowstone has not been evac, the roads melting is nothing new in yellowstone in specific areas!
Yup and if it blows...it ends my family's historical lines...so I hope it never blows.
When you and Brent bring up the historical data, I always get nervous about it. Can't change my brother and nephews attitude toward it. I actually watched a Nat Geo show about Yellowstone and how one scientist thinks it is only a matter of time before it blows again....now he did say that could be another million years, give or take.
Yeah, if the Yellowstone does blow, it will be a super volcano that will make Helena look like a baby. Part of the reason, I keep a good computer eye on the eruptions and satellite pics on the area.
A mainstream news source: http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/scie...lcano-bigger-than-previously-thought/26894932
supervolcano scientist Dr. Robert Smith says pretty small chance of it.
supervolcano scientist Dr. Robert Smith says pretty small chance of it.
I know a couple of seismologist that work and live around yellowstone with their families and they have no concern, my friends at pnsn just shakes their heads when anyone mentions or ask 'is yellowstone about to erupt' in fact they are getting angry about it.
"However, recent research shows the global impacts of supervolcanoes are less severe than scientists once thought, and a Yellowstone supereruption might be especially unimposing because its magma contains minimal sulfur
The huge volume of magma means there would still be some sulfur injected into the atmosphere, but work has shown that you reach a sort of limit in the amount of aerosols you can produce with sulfur gas. It means that our earlier suggestions that there would be a severe temperature change is not right
The last time Yellowstone erupted, no extinctions took place"
http://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html
The huge volume of magma means there would still be some sulfur injected into the atmosphere, but work has shown that you reach a sort of limit in the amount of aerosols you can produce with sulfur gas. It means that our earlier suggestions that there would be a severe temperature change is not right
The last time Yellowstone erupted, no extinctions took place"
http://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html
My chevy truck at the time was a 1969 (before all the emission stuff) we gone to the wrecking yard and purchased a 2 brrl oil bath filter from a older vehicle 54/55 vehicle, wrecking yards use to be full of old oil bath filters, now days, I don't think it would work unless you had and older vehicle
I'm not overly concerned about volcanoes in America, the earthquakes is more a pressing issue and far more realistic in terms of devastation
You too Myyrph...if memory serves me right, your not sitting on "Gods Ground" either...think you had an eruption near Indonesia a 100 years or so ago. Be careful my friend!
yeah, we're affected by volcanoes from indonesia ... we're just protected from almost everything else...
no ability to bug out, hence, working on bug in strategies, thats why researching on alternative electrical generation to charge batteries for basic usage.
sigh~ so much to do, so little time.
Well I just heard recently. That they were paving a road in Yellowstone. And they came back to finish it and the tar was bubbling. The ground was so warm. And my boss told me they just found a huge volcanic chamber directly under the chamber they knew about and its a lot larger then the previously knew about and it feeding the previous one a lot faster then anticipated.
There's no doubt it is building pressure to blow, but it could be tomorrow or ten thousand years from now. A. If it blows, 2/3 of America will be gone in seconds, you probably won't feel a thing, so don't worry. B. It probably won't blow in your life time, so don't worry. C. Learn to work on the things you can control, so don't worry.
The asphalt has been an issue for years, this is nothing new
they mapped the chambers and found what was expected but not changing the science and certainly doesn't change the science regarding the dangers from Yellowstone.
