Yellowstone caldera's pushing earth

casperstartribune ^ | February 16, 2009 | By BRETT FRENCH

[Myrddin]

I love the park, it is always changing.

Agreed. We have reservations for opening day in April again this year. The snow on various foot bridges was 6 to 8 feet deep last year. We were crawling on hands and knees through Norris basin and up the path to Midway basin. The snow in West Yellowstone was still piled as high as the eves of many buildings in town.

[BCR #226]

ping

[Myrddin]

There were some really interesting earthquakes in close temporal proximity to the initial startup of the HADRON collider. I'm not convinced that it was total coincidence. If it really screws things up, we don't have much recourse to undo the damage.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Earth’s internal combustion engine? 8<)

Now remember, da good Lord done did promise ole Noah that He would not destroy the earth again by no floodin’ ....

Didn’t say nutin’ about no fire destroyin’ dis here earth..

[CIDKauf]

Tetons too? That means early fishing will be good...when the mountains are frozen and lower lands are warm...fish come to Papa!

[CIDKauf]

So these are all of God’s ways to bring Armeggedon?

[CIDKauf]

Yellowstone is God’s way to destroy America! (radical)

[GOPJ]

“Some people worry about conspiracy and cover-ups,” he said.

But folks would know if an explosion were imminent by visible warning signs, like swelling earth and a shift in gasses escaping from the ground, he said.

From the link you supplied... "visable warning signs, like swelling earth"...

[CIDKauf]

So: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ALASKA_VOLCANO?SITE=MTMIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=national-2008.php&CTIME=2009-02-09-21-53-30

[ApplegateRanch]

That is a Yeti with a flyswatter going for the bug on the cheek of the prone George Washington bust. The blue guy with the sledge hammer is that headache causer from the old Anicin ad.

Or maybe this guy:

[Caramelgal]

Don't forget we will soon fire up the CERN accelerator in search for the Higgs boson, or “God particle”. We create an unstoppable nuclear reaction that instantly annihilates the entire solar system. Or perhaps a mini black hole that merely sucks up the planet.

Also don’t forget that the first A-bomb and hydrogen bomb tests, in a theoretical sense, they could have set the atmosphere on fire, killing everyone on Earth in a mere instant. Many scientists warned against it saying it was a remote possibility. Many other scientists said it wouldn’t happen. Perhaps didn’t come true as the remote perhaps didn’t happen.

I’m much less concerned about CERN than I am about all the other stuff that can wipe us out that we have no control over.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The Tetons?

Seriosly, that’s hard to predict. The Yellowstone caldera is immediately north of the Tetons, but the prevailing (average) winds are from the west-northwest.

That wold indicate that most of the ash would go east and southeast across the Great Plains and Great Lakes. But the Tetons are so close that incidental damage would be equally damaging to life and vegetation - though probably with 1/2 or 1/3 the ash fall that would destroy the immediate are south east of Yellowstone.

Geology would be OK, but life? Not in the immediate few weeks after the blowout.

[CIDKauf]

Yellowstone is a Super valcano. The numerous calderas could erupt at any time. The real problem is the lava domes that develop and excessive pressure.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from February.

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[grey_whiskers]

You are one of the few people, maybe half-a-dozen, who I *wouldn't* call a nutcase after such a statement.

As it is, I'm intrigued.

Can you supply a link, please?

Cheere!

[Myrddin]

I would be happy to track down some links for you later this afternoon. Right now it's 48 degrees, clear skies, sunshine. I've been dying to get out on my bike today, but stuck in the basement upgrading a hard disk on my Linux system. It's also the DHCP server, so the rest of the household has been breathlessly awaiting its return.

[adorno]

It’s never over till Obama has a trillion dollar bailout plan for it.

No bailout plan...

But, look for Obama and the democrats to propose a $200 billion public works project to create 5 million jobs where people dig out the lava from Yellowstone and move it elsewhere.

[Myrddin]

The question was raised about whether the LHC was responsible for large earthquakes. To get a "timestamp" on the time frame, see the link. This places the date around Sept 10, 2008. Another article appears this link. As always, correlation does not prove causation. A malfunction on Sept 19th did $40 million damage to the arc magnet, so it hasn't been fired up again since that first test. It is worth observing again next time it is fired up.