Bulge in lake worries YNP scientists

Cody Enterprise via Drudge ^ | 07/31/03 | By CAROLE CLOUDWALKER

[Mike Darancette]

No evidence that the Morlocks aren't roasting fish under there.

They don't want to worry tourists but....

[Mike Darancette]

PING>>>

[al baby]

SOUNDS LIKE MOUNT SAINT YELLOWSTONE

[blam]

This SUPER-volcano is 40,000 years over due. The last time it blew, it left ash 6 feet deep in Nebraska.

75,000 years ago when the SUPER volcano Toba blew, only 2,000-5,000 humans worldwide survived.

[Larry Lucido]

Bulge in lake worries YNP scientists

Al Gore says the lake ain't got nothing on his Rolling Stone cover.

[Snuffington]

"We have no evidence there's any volcanic component" to the bulging dome, she added.

Um... does that include checking for caldera components?

[Centurion2000]

Interesting link but it seems that they exaggerated the size components of some of the volcano eruptions relative to each other.

Still, if this puppy goes I'll be glad I'm down in Texas with a nearby lake for a heat sink.

[rockfish59]

Mt. Saint Bulge!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956088/posts

Already posted.

[OldCorps]

yeah, but one was a natural occuring bulge,...the other was a piece of kielbasa place to look natural, but was in fact fake.

lol, that was Goron's attempt to get the sucker mom vote.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This SUPER-volcano is 40,000 years over due. The last time it blew, it left ash 6 feet deep in Nebraska.

I've read about that. Quite the detective story. It will happen again.

I just hope it's not for another 5000 years or so. Give us time to get off planet...if we haven't already extinctified ourselves.

[Lockbar]

Last year on either the Discovery Channel or PBS wasn't there a special about how one end of a lake at Yellowstone N.P. was really bulging / tilting up? They think a molten dome is building up under the park, and if it blows it could wipe out all the life hundreds of miles around? If it happens when I'm there, I hope I get my admission refunded!

[Bernard Marx]

This SUPER-volcano is 40,000 years over due.

Yeah, this hot spot has had an interesting past (check out the Snake River Plain volcanics that stretch out behind it like a comet's tail).

It occurs to me this could raise hell with the fishing though.

[Conservative84]

I saw a show about the Yellowstone super-eruptions on the Discovery channel a couple years back. Perhaps the small bulge under the lake could just be bad news for the lake and anything nearby. But, if the theory put forth in the special is correct, should the bulge break open - even just the relatively small bulge under the lake - the tremendous pressures on the vast underlying magma pool would be released pretty much instantly. This would cause the gases in solution in the magma to expand explosively throughout the entire magma pool (think of like a very hot, very large can of Coke that has been shaken up thoroughly then opened).

The likely result is that all of the surface above the entire magma pool would be blasted into oblivion. The outcome could be catastrophic for a very large part of the country - and that very large part of the country is where much of our food comes from. Not a good scenario. Perhaps Joseph should go tell Pharoh so the US could set aside a strategic reserve of grains and such. :-)

To get a feel for the size of the magma pool, note the size of the Yellowstone Caldera.

[blam]

"The outcome could be catastrophic for a very large part of the country - and that very large part of the country is where much of our food comes from. Not a good scenario."

It's even worse than that. The rest of the peole will starve to death because we won't see the sun for maybe four years. Think nuclear/cosmic winter type effects.

I already figured out where a safe place will be with plenty of food when this happens.

[Nateman]

If that thing blows like it has before, make sure you have a few YEARS worth of food and live near a nuclear power plant, since that's going to be the only source of heat for awhile. ( And lots of guns and ammo to protect yourself from those who have not prepared )

[Question_Assumptions]

The estimates I've seen were larger than 2,000 to 5,000 -- but not incredibly large. That lower number might be the survivors ouside of Africa? (Bear in mind that there is more genetic diversity within Africa than between Northern Africa and the rest of the world.)

[Troublemaker]

Considering I live 2 miles from the entrance from the park, my main fear is still and will always be fire. It has been incredibly hot this summer and we have already had 1 fire near us. The park has also closed a number of streams to fishing due to high water temperatures.

[Colorado Doug]

I already figured out where a safe place will be with plenty of food when this happens.

Me too. I hope that they will let me stay at Walmart until it's over.

[blam]

"The estimates I've seen were larger than 2,000 to 5,000 -- but not incredibly large. "

The 2,000 number is the one I see most often cited and it comes from the DNA 'bottleneck' folks.
I've recently read that an archaeologist has claimed to have found a human site just above the Toba ash layer somewhere in the Indonesia area. So...someone in the region survived, at least for a while.