Yellowstone is having it's worst earth quake swarms in 20 years.
Wendsday night there was a 3.7 earth quake inthe area at about 11:15 our time.
My interest was because earth quakes seem to effect other ones thousands of miles away. For example, a big earth quake in Alaska sparked earth quake swarms in Yellowstone.
Even if there is no super volcano eruption there could still be poison gas that comes out or changes in the giesers.
If it is a super volcano like last big one that happend a long time ago the ash would go to Louisiana and it would be 100 times more powerfull than mount saint hellens explosion.
Yellowstone is having it's worst earth quake swarms in 20 years.
Wendsday night there was a 3.7 earth quake inthe area at about 11:15 our time.
My interest was because earth quakes seem to effect other ones thousands of miles away. For example, a big earth quake in Alaska sparked earth quake swarms in Yellowstone.
Even if there is no super volcano eruption there could still be poison gas that comes out or changes in the giesers.
If it is a super volcano like last big one that happend a long time ago the ash would go to Louisiana and it would be 100 times more powerfull than mount saint hellens explosion.
Shalom, Chad...
A top Hawaii-based volcanologist who was reluctant to go into specifics on the record since he had only web data to go on, has made a few comments which are probably pertinent to our worries. This was Jan. 4, 2009.
Bob Smith, who is a seismologist and a great one, is a real straight shooter and is going to tell folks what he thinks, when he has enough information to think something. Ditto for Jake Lowenstern of the USGS. So I believe them when they say that they don't really know at this point what this swarm portends as Yellowstone is very seismically active. ... The odds of a big caldera forming eruption at Yellowstone are really infinitesimal during our lifetime. While the Discovery channel documentary did a fair job of portraying how an eruption might come down, it also did a better job of whipping up anxiety about a very unlikely event. You would be much more productive hiding in your closet avoiding lightning than worrying about a Yellowstone eruption. It's a wonderful thing to ponder and try to get a grip on some of the wild things that happen on our planet, but not something to stay awake about. The last rhyolite lava eruption was 80,000 years ago or so, that's 8 times as long as human civilization and represents roughly half the time modern humans have existed, just to put in perspective. Humans tend to be a bit egocentric thinking that all this stuff is happening to them personally, when it's just happening as part of nature. Anyway, Yellowstone while certainly doing stuff, is not in the same category of likely caldera eruption as Rabaul and Campi Flegrei. ... These quakes were much bigger than the Yellowstone swarm and many many more of them. And the final eruption from 2 volcanoes at the same time turned out to be relatively "small" though it buried the town in ash.
And Yellowstone has quieted down since Smith made these statements. So, for now anyway, we can rest a bit.
Blessings, Chad..
From an old timer,
Cleveland
Thanks, Cleveland. Yes, I've heard all those "it's-gonna-blow-any-minute" predictions from the Discovery channel too--and it frankly made me sad to think of the lost of animal life there in the park. So I appreciate you alleviating my fears of that at least for the next 80,000 years!
Shalom!
Shalom crmann,
Having made my living where it is 'wet,' I never paid much attention to volcano's, nor caldera's. Tsunami's, well, OK, but on the high sea's even they were of no import, unless, I was in port. (pun) Me-thinks we have more to worry about in the financial 'caldera.' (Think 'Green' (money) disappearing, folks)
In Messiah, His Shalom and covering. Arley
To Carmann-
I know you are blessing me but in the context of evangelicals thinking this is the end times even just a mild rearangement of YEllow stone geisers is concerning.
If you are a main line protestant and don't get into end times stuff then I understand your world view.
But I would add here Deuteronomy32:22 where it apocalyptically says God sets fire to the foundations of the mountains.