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.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Interesting...
The last time it had gone off was in 2014. It has now gone off eight times since March.
That was written on June 6th. Here we are in July.
Check this out: LINK
Here you can check out the intervals. It's interesting.
There is a FReeper who lives close enough to the park that he/she uses geothermal to heat their driveway.
Would love to hear from them the local situation.
Alpine guide team in training session stumbled on rock fissure that widened one day to the next. They determined area unsafe, invoked restrictions on traversing the area.
Found the National Parks press release. The closure is in Grand Teton National Park, not Yellowstone.
Safety Concerns Lead To Emergency Closure Near Jenny Lake In Grand Teton National Park
“Some recently expanding cracks and fissures have been identified in a large rock buttress above the Hidden Falls viewing area, a park release said.”
This is a gravity event not volcanic. Damn you Express UK.
Yellowstone has a history of many more small eruptions than the three majors which it’s famous for.
And that’s okay. I’m not trying to make the case for a major blowout.
All I am saying is there is some unusual activity taking place.
The microscopic glass fragments that clump to form ash are the next most dangerous aspect of a volcano, next to the effect of sulfur aerosols. Greenhouse time for food.
Blocking sunlight a long time is the larger threat.
I can laugh it off. Hell, I commute thirty miles on I-15 every day.
I’m not sure everyone knows the potential of that region going postal.
That’s all I’m saying. While this is probably not “the big one”, folks should have some idea of the ramifications, if it did blow.
Thanks for the airphoto on post 66. We were on the talus slope in the lower left portion of the closed area. The last time we were there they had signs up saying not to go off the trail.
I swear - 17 years ago they weren’t there!
Call me conspiracy nut but was Hillary or one of her Ruski buds sited anywhere near there. Series tho, maybe the left need another ‘crisis’. Half way kidding.
I saw a woman in a video actually praying for something bad to happen. Insane!
So like Los Angles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle?
This could be more devastating than a Sharknado.
This could be a Trumpnado. The entire Left could be destroyed.
I did some of my studies in the seismic lab at the U of U. I was there in Yellowstone the year after the Hebgen lake quake (remember “quake lake”)? I was in the Wilberg mine studying mining engineering a month before the explosion. I’ve had my run.
Yellowstone isn’t going anywhere soon. I’m waiting on the asteroid, myself.
Parking on the ridge of the crest of the caldera at Yellowstone and looking into and over the caldera is pretty amazing when you can’t see the other side. (I just had to look - 35 mi x 55 miles or something).
1,000 cubic kilometers of ash vs. 20 cubic kilometers for Krakatoa.
When it happens, I think it will be pretty close to a civilization ending event. Real bad news for the USA, bad news for worldwide crops. Add in the people getting starving and getting restless, and the Russians wanting the Indian’s rice and the Chinese thinking it would be a good time to take us on, well....
Not much we can do about it.
I’m in the Seattle area, my bets are on that the huge earthquake off our coast will happen before Yellowstone blows again. Whether it will happen in my life time, while I’m betting on it (as in prepared for it) - I very well might not collect on that bet.
Nothing-burger, if you look how that hotspot has moved, it is traveling East with a Northern arc away from the Grand Teton area. If something starts rumbling in southern Montana, then I might start to give it a moment of thought. I am more worried about Mt. Rainier. Dome shape volcano’s are at much higher risk of erupting since erosion has shaped them down for that picturesque look. If Rainier goes, it is quite possible the lahars will wipe out Seattle and Tacoma, and the liberals will move south near me in the Columbia river gorge.
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