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BREAKING: Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Belly Rumbling
A Sheep No More ^ | 2/3/14 | Andrew Pontbriand

Posted on 02/04/2014 8:24:36 PM PST by Mike Darancette

A seismometer inside a borehole at Yellowstone National Park has begun reporting staggering underground activity near the southwest corner of Yellowstone Lake, possibly signaling the beginning of an eruption of the Super Volcano at the Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is home to many beauties, with it’s ancient landscape, geysers, and hot springs. It is also the site of one of the worlds most destructive forces. A supervolcano.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: booboo; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; jellystone; oldfaceful; pipsqueak; popapimple; supervolcano; volcano; yellowstone; yellowstonecaldera; yogibear
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To: skinkinthegrass

The last supervolcano eruption in Lake Toba took place more than 70,000 years ago. According to one highly-contested theory it may have wiped out more than half of the planet’s population; in any case the effect on the world would be dramatic.

“This is something that, as a species, we will eventually have to deal with. It will happen in future,” said Dr Malfait.

“You could compare it to an asteroid impact - the risk at any given time is small, but when it happens the consequences will be catastrophic.”


101 posted on 02/04/2014 9:04:13 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: glock rocks

I remember it in a 1959 National Geographic article - an entire mountainside avalanched down into a ravine, which created a lake, and Old Faithful’s timing was altered. Pictures of kitchens with cupboard contents scattered about. We had just returned from Japan & remembered earthquakes that made everything in the house move about.


102 posted on 02/04/2014 9:04:22 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: glock rocks

Did you survive?


103 posted on 02/04/2014 9:04:24 PM PST by chiller (NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
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To: DouglasKC

“Have an exit plan”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.maniacworld.com/erupting-volcano.htm


104 posted on 02/04/2014 9:04:27 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Mike Darancette

We will all surely die if this volcano erupts. No sense losing sleep over it. We have no control over the situation.


105 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:24 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: glock rocks

Is that the night the mountain fell?


106 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:36 PM PST by Helen
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To: AlexW
It is nothing to be made fun of, as I see many FReepers doing.

It is human nature to make light of the unknown and events totally beyond our control.

An asteroid could hit us and have the same effect (or much much worse). Movies and jokes are made about it all the time.

107 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:39 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Mike Darancette

Scary!


108 posted on 02/04/2014 9:07:00 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: freepersup

Thanks, but I don’t think the comparison to Armageddon is correct. The subject of many movies, for sure, but not biblically correct.


109 posted on 02/04/2014 9:08:16 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: ElkGroveDan

New York Times headline: “Yellowstone Supervolcano’s Destruction Spreads Toward Coasts - Women, Gays, Muslims, and Minorities Feel Worst of Seismic Catastrophe!”


110 posted on 02/04/2014 9:08:36 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: AlexW
I don't think anyone here is making fun of a genuine Yellowstone disaster. Your concern about our nonchalance is kind of overrated, almost any topic brought to its hyperbolic end like this article semi-implies could be made fun of. Too much Coke, too much cold, too much heat, too much CO2, too many hurricanes, tornadoes, radiation, fertilizer, genetic engineering, heck too much of anything can be construed as the next worst thing possible to happen to the world.

It's the over-hyping about everything that is being made fun of. Yellowstone could erupt tomorrow, it could wait another 50,000 years, I think the tiresome drumbeat of fever pitched "could be" is definitely warranting some mockery.

Odumbo's reign of insanity is real, the evidence is in front of us daily. Yelowstone erupting is simply a "possibility" that might happen in the next X thousands of years.

111 posted on 02/04/2014 9:08:36 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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To: miliantnutcase
Looks like the seismic activity ended 4am MST on 4/2.

That can only mean that it's building pressure. RUN!

112 posted on 02/04/2014 9:09:44 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: House Atreides
True. The complete destruction of most of the North American continent is IMMINENT...details at 11:00.

You forgot the obligatory caveat: Women and minorities hardest hit.

113 posted on 02/04/2014 9:09:58 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: txhurl
If this thing is about to go all FReepers need to get to San Antonio, maybe just North to the Austin area Hill Country.

Nope. I'm goin' to Disney World.


114 posted on 02/04/2014 9:10:00 PM PST by 867V309 (I love potatoes-except, of course, Lena Dunham)
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To: dragnet2
i have no doubt, how serious it could get..

115 posted on 02/04/2014 9:10:41 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Mike Darancette

http://io9.com/what-will-really-happen-when-yellowstone-volcano-has-a-508274690


116 posted on 02/04/2014 9:11:02 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: elcid1970
New York Times headline: “Yellowstone Supervolcano’s Destruction Spreads Toward Coasts - Women, Gays, Muslims, and Minorities Feel Worst of Seismic Catastrophe!”

"There's a sale at Penney's!"

117 posted on 02/04/2014 9:11:20 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: txhurl

Well... much of the North American continent will be several feet higher than it was.


118 posted on 02/04/2014 9:11:28 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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I say, never let a crisis go to waste!

119 posted on 02/04/2014 9:12:07 PM PST by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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To: 867V309

Wherever I go, I hope there’s Rum.


120 posted on 02/04/2014 9:12:13 PM PST by dfwgator
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