Posted on 03/31/2014 1:23:50 AM PDT by Star Traveler
(Reuters) - Yellowstone National Park, which sits atop one of the world's largest super-volcanoes, was struck on Sunday by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, the biggest recorded there since February 1980, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.
The tremor, a relatively light event by seismic standards, struck the northwest corner of the park and capped a flurry of smaller quakes at Yellowstone since Thursday, geologists at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations said in a statement.
The latest earthquake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the Norris Geyser Basin and was felt about 23 miles away in two small Montana towns adjacent to year-around entrances to the park - Gardiner and West Yellowstone.
The national park spans 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km) of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and draws about 3 million visitors each year to its iconic geysers and wildlife attractions, including bison.
A U.S. Geological Survey team planned to tour the Norris Geyser Basin on Sunday to determine if the quake altered any of Yellowstone's geothermal features, such as geysers, mud pots and hot springs.
Several people reported having felt shaking they compared to the rumble of a tractor-trailer truck driving by, and a few items fell off the shelves at a local grocery store, a West Yellowstone police dispatcher said.
About 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes strike Yellowstone each year, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a research partnership of the park, the University of Utah and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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God morning! I like your tag line. Check out mine..I switch back to it every once in a while
and obamacare...
This will take care of the bread basket. Wonder if the infultrators are helping this event along
Yawn... Yellowstone is always moving. The whole basin breaths, so what’s the big deal about a 3.x?
Nothing.
“... 4.x”
Yep, still... Nothing.
Something other than “Ah-hah” came to mind, but I know where you’re going with that...lol!
It was a 4.8, highest magnitude there in 34 years.
They did that in hawaii and the residents complained about noise, smell, health, acid, eye irriation/breathing.
I think they’re expanding now anyway but it was set back years because of the complaints.
Are there a lot of women you want to hit?
Yep it’s that global warming thingy causing it.
Pinatubo dropped global temps. by .4C for several months. Yellowstone would drop global temps by 10 C for at least ten years. The falling ash would kill virtually all life on the entire N. American continent.
If the Yellowstone super volcano blows, say good bye to the US and large parts of the world as the cloud of ash could seriously affect climate around the world.
To make it more scarier it should be called megavolcano.
“Fasten your seatbelt, Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going bye bye.”
Ping-a-ling
With 3 billion weemen on the planet there’s a veritable candy store of em.
1. Because they are really vast.
2. Because we have no way to actually control the amount of energy there.
The few 'Geothermal Energy" sites we have pump cool water down a few hundred feet into some hot rocks to make some steam. Hot rocks and a pool of liquid magma at a few thousand degrees the size of Rhode Island are two different propositions.
Bottom line... we can't do what you suggest, and even if we could, the Earth would just make more magma. We could not win that pissing contest.
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