Posted on 05/19/2018 1:20:17 PM PDT by artichokegrower
It's not only a possibility in the Hawaiian Islands.
A chain of about 40 volcanos runs along the West Coast between Canada and Mexico and all have the potential to become active. (The potential for each peak is outlined in the gallery above.)
They've all erupted at least once in the past 10,000 years and they all have a supply of magma under them.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
It will be Lassen!
Then Clear Lake.
Checked it out with my geophysicist brother a long time ago. Some very strange mounds of lave like rock popped up all around in an otherwise flat area..
Marysville buttes then in SF.
I noticed Yellowstone was not on the list. And it has a potential to do a lot more damage than any two or three on it.
rwood
This is another reason why solar panels aren’t a serious energy source. You can literally have a year without sunshine after a monster volcano anywhere in the world.
Yellowstone isn’t in the Cascade Range, which was the subject of the list.
Perfect. More of those faggoty long grey haired old men and their wrinkled ex hippy women invading civilization. Doing to the Heartland what they did to Oregon, Colorado, Washington State, Austin, Tulsa, ....................
I have climbed Mt Hood and Mt Ranier before. Also numerous volcanoes outside the USA.
The north side of Rainier already disappeared and created the Puget Sound with the Osceola Mudflow. My house was built on it; you couldn’t dig down more than two inches without hitting rock.
“Checked it out with my geophysicist brother a long time ago. Some very strange mounds of lave like rock popped up all around in an otherwise flat area..”
It might also be at the Southern end of the San Andreas fault. I know the fault runs down the East side of the Salton Sea but as far as I know it kind of peters out in that area.
We were prowling the Anza-Borrego area checking out fault features.
Puget Sound existed long before the Osceola Mudflow which approached the Sound, that collapse is on the north side (where you live) and was filled with lava from later eruptions (the rock you hit) around 2200 years ago..
FWIW: most of the region has top soil only a few inches deep and then one hits rock or hard pan. The best top soil many feet deep (formerly farms) was covered with 20 feet of gravel and paved over to make a business district in Renton.
Thank you for clarifying!
BTW: Mt Rainier is a Decade Volcano - one of the 10 most dangerous in the world ...
Not if the volcanoes get them first.
“I just checked it out. It is located at the Southern end of the Salton Sea. The have geothermal activity in the area which I new about. I just did not realize the area was a volcano.”
The Salton sea is located at the beginning of the San Andreas fault and San Jacinto fault zone. With all the seismic activity in Hawaii connected with the eruption, could either a massive earthquake trigger an eruption or an eruption trigger a massive earthquake in the area?
Thanks RACPE.
Almost always, local earthquakes and seismic activity precedes an eruption as the lava mass goes up into the volcano itself. These are usually hundredds and hundreds of smaller earthquakes clustered under the volcano. Could the opposite happen: A large earthquake at the junction of two faults trigger new breaks that let a magma mass rise up into an old volcano?
Seems likely.
I re-read the article from SF Gate and it was actually talking about the volcanoes in California with the byline actually reading: “These are the California volcanoes most likely to erupt first” Yellowstone may not fall in that category but neither do many of the locations mentioned by the posters to include anything north of Medicine Lake and the Soda Lake identification in Nevada.
I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California near the Cascades and have visited many of the places mentioned. And I can look out my window right now and see Mt. Ranier, kinda, without the clouds, from my home south of Tacoma. But my point was that the locations they are mentioning are fire crackers compared to the dynamite sitting under Yellowstone. A few thousands will die if they go up. A few hundreds of thousands will go if/when Yellowstone goes. And if one or two of the smaller locations go, it won’t have any where near the effect across the nation of the Yellowstone caldera. It will be earth effecting with the destruction it will do to our food systems, trade, and way of life for many years.
rwood
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