Posted on 07/17/2018 8:16:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A 100-foot fissure has opened up in the Grand Teton National Park – not far from the potentially catastrophic Yellowstone volcano.
The giant crack in the Wyoming–based national park has prompted officials to shut down areas from tourists in case of landslides.
The Grand Teton National Park said in a statement: “The Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point areas are currently closed due to elevated potential for rockfall.
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If it was seismic activity beneath Grand Teton which caused the fissure, it could be a sign that Yellowstone is reawakening.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
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Volcanic soil is good for gardening and farming. ;-)
Campi Flegrei is the caldera that is most likely to blow next.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields#More_recent_history
Cool, no?
LOL
Are you giving them even odds?
Interesting BTW
****Guess it would be like a balloon deflating****
Thats one hell of a zit!
As Yellowstone has no summit for lava to flow from, sounds like localized pyroclastic (sp) flow and ash clouds are the problem?
Note that the numbers given were in millimeters. If you are in the 10 to 30 zone on the map, that would mean you'd get up to 1.2 inches of ash. An inch of ash wouldn't be fun, but still survivable.
It is also thought that humans from Australasia migrated INTO Africa following coastal routes. In fact the entry point for these humans can be pinpointed in the Eastern parts of Africa around Kenya, et al. The DNA markers of these humans differ from those of central and western Africa. It is all complicated and some independent researchers using well established studies have come to the conclusion that Human Kind may have developed first in Australasia and migrated elsewhere. All of it is fascinating.
If Yellowstone blows it will be the end of this civilization as we know it. Humans will survive, but not all. Starvation will be devastating. Flora and fauna will die off in the Americas and elsewhere.
We all remember the Dark Ages, which is dated somewhere around 540 AD. It is believed that indeed time was dark with the sun being blocked out for several summers. Places like England never saw the Sun as plants, as well as any crops died off. The search for the Chalice to heal the King/Land is a metaphor for what happened in those years until the land began to rebound. Did another volcano blow, and if so, which one? Or was it an object from the heavens?
A caldera is the hole left after the mountain gets blown away. Sometimes a resergent dome will form in the middle as the magma chamber pushes its way back to the surface or there is a bit of leakage from the dome.
If you fly over Colorado before the snow completely covers it, the calderas stand out.
Assuming that ash isn’t still red hot.
On a positive note, the US would have all our illegal immigrants returning aholes and elbows back to their own countries licity split!
I guess it depends on which 2/3s of the US go away.
I was an extra in a disaster movie once and this was my line and I have never gotten over it:
WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!
No doubt. When Krakatoa blew in 1883, it was heard 3,000 miles away.
If the volcano on Yellowstone goes everyone east of it will in fact die, maybe not people in FL.
IOW - People are too stupid to avoid the area if we post Danger signs so we had to rope it off....
The Spokane Spokesman-Review Rand some good personal recollections of the ash fall: Mount St. Helens memories: Ash, May 18, 2010.
Woody Harrelson’s dad was a hitman who actually murdered people!
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