Once again we have more dis/misinformation about Yellowstone Park and its volcano. I am always amazed at how we never seem to question any online information about this area, rather we just jump to a conclusion that, because it is on the internet, it must be true. I would like to examine some of the statements from this post.
Three last eruptions of Yellowstone happened to an equal cycle in 600-700 thousand years. The last eruption was 640 thousand years ago, with a capacity of bursts of 1000 cubic kilometers.
It is true that the last eruption was about 640,000 years ago and it sent about 1000 cubic kilometers of earth into the air. However, the eruption before that was 1.3 million years ago. The eruption before that was 2.1 million years ago. The eruption before that was 4 to 6 million years ago when the hotspot was under what is now Idaho and formed the Heise Caldera.
Therefore, before the last eruption, we have closed intervals of 660,000 years, 800,000 years, and about 2 million years. I do not see that this supports the statement that eruptions occur in equal cycles of 600-700 thousand years.
Active discussion about Y's eruption happened last spring. Do you remember that video where bisons leave Yellowstone national park?
That was discussed in this forum extensively and was shown to be nonsense. Bison come and go at park boundaries all the time, especially in the spring and fall. These bison in the video were nowhere near a park boundary. Also, if you go to Youtube, you can see videos posted of bison standing, walking, and running in the roads. This is nothing unusual. After this video was posted last Spring, YNP posted their bison count in the park as 4900 for the summer of 2014. They decided this was too high and plan to cull 800 - 900 bison.
In the beginning of this century scientists approved that supervulcano will awake in 2075. Then, according to specified data the date of eruption was shifted to 2017...Then this "topic was closed". In May of last year everything the little considerable issuings ceased to print information on a supervolcano.
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Nobody disproved last forecast
How do you disprove a forecast when so little is known about the subject? Anyone here could make a forecast and it would probably be just as accurate.
In 2006 it was discovered that the soil in two places in park rises directly with a speed of 4-6 centimeters a year. For the last twenty years the soil rose by only 20 centimeters.
With 2007 on 2011 soil rose already by 178 centimeters. These are the latest data which managed to be found in the Internet. Probably fresher information is held.
I would demand a source for this information. The area is known to rise and fall. The entire crust is moving over the hotspot at the rate of about 1 inch per year and many of the earthquakes occur a from this movement and the settling of the ground. I suspect the author of this article is telling only part of the story to fit a fearmongering agenda.
March, 2014. The territory of park was left by bisons. This video flew about all Internet. Official version seasonal migration. Less known fact: the park was left by elks.
The bison issue has already been addressed. As for the elk, there are fewer concentrated in Yellowstone Park because of the wolves in the park. Not too long ago there were approximately 20,000 elk in YNP. This concentration of elk was actually too large and they were known to be harming the ecosystem of YNP. Now that they have scattered because of the wolf population, there are about 8000-10000 elk in Yellowstone. So the statement "the parks was left by elks" is once again a partial truth which seems to be made in such a way as to support a fearmongering agenda.
April, 2014 temperature in lakes reached 20 degrees Celsius. Seismologists recorded the increased seismic activity, activity reached 4.8 points.
I assume this is referring to Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Lake freezes over on its surface in the winter, and does not completely thaw until late May or early June. There have been no deviations from this in the last, well...., ever. No recorded history of any unusual Yellowstone Lake thaws. This lake does have thermal features on its bottom constantly feeding boiling water into it, so it would not be unusual to measure high temperatures any time in the lake, depending on the depth you are recording the temps. Once again this statement is a half truth.
IMHO, this entire article is full of half truths and innuendos for the purpose of creating fear.
s-kur said:
Okay, I've come across on russian article about Yellowstone. Here's translation of main thread.
___http://cont.ws/post/71985/
Three last eruptions of Yellowstone happened to an equal cycle in 600-700 thousand years. The last eruption was 640 thousand years ago, with a capacity of bursts of 1000 cubic kilometers.
Active discussion about Y's eruption happened last spring. Do you remember that video where bisons leave Yellowstone national park?
In the beginning of this century scientists approved that supervulcano will awake in 2075. Then, according to specified data the date of eruption was shifted to 2017...Then this "topic was closed". In May of last year everything the little considerable issuings ceased to print information on a supervolcano.
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Nobody disproved last forecast
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So, on a supervolcano. Rise of events on time.
In may 2001 was created Y's volcanic observatory. [...]
In 2003 access for tourists to the pool of geysers Norris almost closed. Reason: hyperactivity and high temperature of water at some geysers of the pool
In 2006 it was discovered that the soil in two places in park rises directly with a speed of 4-6 centimeters a year. For the last twenty years the soil rose by only 20 centimeters.
With 2007 on 2011 soil rose already by 178 centimeters. These are the latest data which managed to be found in the Internet. Probably fresher information is held.
March, 2014. The territory of park was left by bisons. This video flew about all Internet. Official version seasonal migration. Less known fact: the park was left by elks.
April, 2014 temperature in lakes reached 20 degrees Celsius. Seismologists recorded the increased seismic activity, activity reached 4.8 points.
Then news stop.