...Surprisingly, neither Gribbin nor Plagemann has ever been tarred-and-feathered for their journalistic malfeasance. And what was Isaac Asimov thinking when he agreed to write the Foreward to this book, and sound almost like he agrees with them...?
Posted on 11/05/2015 9:03:26 AM PST by JimSEA
Obviously you are NOT a CLEAR. ;-)
You take a look at the flurry of small quakes at both Yellowstone and Long Valley and you have to wonder why. Hydrothermal activity and growth of the magma chamber a certainly involved but just what those faults are doing isn’t well known. Everything learned about earthquakes has some economic impact in building codes that have improved safety and lessened economic impacts — particularly in Japan.
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/sun-wakes-volcanoes-up-jupiter-makes-them-sleep/
interesting theories and discussion...
Set off by the aliens living inside the earth?
Extenal causation could mean that a supervolcano eruption could happen in a hurry.
Good idea and it may divert them from trying to eliminate AC ...
The book “The Jupiter Effect” was a hell of a nice piece of quackery, but one thing I remember from it, that still intrigues, is that there’s a cycle of sunspot activity that corresponds to the number of years it takes Jupiter to complete one orbit. OTOH, Jupiter’s mass to that of the Sun is about the same as Earth’s to Jupiter.
...Surprisingly, neither Gribbin nor Plagemann has ever been tarred-and-feathered for their journalistic malfeasance. And what was Isaac Asimov thinking when he agreed to write the Foreward to this book, and sound almost like he agrees with them...?
Various possible external forces. For example it appears distinctly possible that the huge Deccan Traps were influenced by the Yucatan meteor 65 mya, and possibly an even larger Shiva meteor just off shore. The Siberian Traps are a huge area, and perhaps a meteor crashed into the center where it started. The 3 great Yellowstone eruptions cover a 2 million year period, but there is a string of other calderas stretching westward and covering around 16 million years, so I doubt meteors had anything to do with that ongoing phenomena. This string starts at the Oregon/Nevada border and can be seen on a map at this link.
http://www.youngzine.org/article/yellowstone-fury-beneath-forest
Thomas Jaggar an early modern volcanologist established the first US volcanic observatory in Hawaii. I have a book of his in which it a report appears that magma levels may be influenced by low or high levels of sun spots. The great Toba eruption left a caldera 16 by 65 miles and it was only recently recognized the Lake Toba was actually a caldera lake. I doubt that a meteor cause that one. At any rate Jaggar was an important figure. Check him out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jaggar
http://www.nps.gov/havo/planyourvisit/jaggar_museum.htm
Several times I have noticed that big earthquakes have occurred after severe droughts. I have theorized that either the reduction of weight above a fault, or cracking allowing sudden influx of ground water might be triggering factors for earthquakes, but perhaps also for some volcanoes.
“The 3 great Yellowstone eruptions cover a 2 million year period, but there is a string of other calderas stretching westward and covering around 16 million years, so I doubt meteors had anything to do with that ongoing phenomena.”
Actually I read a book (by John McPhee I think) which suggested the original Yellowstone hot spot was caused by an impacter some 16 mya.
Lightning erupts from the crater of Mount Shinmoedake on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Sometimes earthquakes can produce flashes of light and other luminous events, as well. Ball lightning has been reported accompanying earthquakes, as have bright, colorful cloud-like formations floating in the sky above the fractured strata.
A meteor might have punched into the original magma chamber, but then what has caused the continued episodes. I hope you looked at the map. I just read the article and found several errors. The mentioned the 640 kya eruption, but not the two previous ones going back to 2 my. Then they say it will be another 500 ky before the next one while most believe there is a good likelihood of one in the next 100 ky. They also try to make it really safe by saying it won’t be for 1/2 million years, but elsewhere I have read that since the last big one there have been about 70 small ones, so it could be building up to one of those.
I'm working on my own book, "Trianetics", it's based on the even division of a spherical surface using not three but four triangles, each of which is made of 120° angles.
Steven Collins archeologist in his explorations of Tell Hamman (as the possible site of Sodom) dates it’s destruction, due to METEOR impact, at the exact same time as the Minoan empires’ destruction due to the explosion of Santorini! That’s what makes this article very interesting. The Psalms speaks of God as “touching the mountains causing them to smoke!”
Cultural artifacts found at the Tel Hamman site match what has be found of the Minoans; the evidences of high temperature heat and trinitite glass suggested a meteor impact. The dating of the impact appears to match that of the Santorini explosion. It seems God was at work taking out a great evil that would have hindered his plans for human history! A grouping of celestially hurled rocks striking Santorini and taking out the “cities of the plain”(affected a 500 square kilometer area of that part of the Jordan plain) at the same time....efficient and neat, quite the exclamation point of God’s power!
Now about that certain supervolcano caldera in the US North West......
I was once taken trout fishing on Lake Taupo in New Zealand. Thinking about the forces bubbling beneath that formed it while bouncing along in a little boat trolling a fly rig, and looking at the volcanoes on its perimeter (one active, Ruapehu spouting steam) was surreal.
Cracks are caused by things drying out.
Heat causes things to dry out.
Global Warming create more heat.
Therefore Global Warming will trigger super volcanoes.
Think thats enough to get a $5 million research grant?
Land tides could initiate such events.
The theory is the impacter punched a hole that triggered a hotspot 16 mya. The North American plate moves over the hotspot which feeds supervolcanic eruptions. What appears to be a line of eruptions are all from the same hotspot the plate above is moving not the hotspot.
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