Yellowstone Supervolcano Alert

[Voluntarism]

Right now, the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is rising at a record rate. In fact, it is rising at the rate of about three inches per year.

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And now the area around Yellowstone is becoming increasingly seismically active. In fact, Professor Bob Smith says that he has never seen anything like this in the 53 years that he has been watching Yellowstone…

Until recently, Bob Smith had never witnessed two simultaneous earthquake swarms in his 53 years of monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone Caldera.

Now, Smith, a University of Utah geophysics professor, has seen three swarms at once.

In September, 130 earthquakes hit Yellowstone over the course of a single week. This has got many Yellowstone observers extremely concerned…

Yellowstone’s recent earthquake swarms started on Sept. 10 and were shaking until about 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16.

“A total of 130 earthquakes of magnitude 0.6 to 3.6 have occurred in these three areas, however, most have occurred in the Lower Geyser Basin,” a University of Utah statement said. “Notably much of seismicity in Yellowstone occurs as swarms.”

So what is the worst case scenario?

Well, according to the Daily Mail, a full-blown eruption of Yellowstone could leave two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable…

It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.

Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.

Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.

Can you think of another potential disaster that could accomplish the same thing?

That is why what is going on at Yellowstone right now is so important, and the American people deserve the truth. The following are some more facts about Yellowstone that I compiled that I included in a previous article…

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_http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/10/yellowstone-supervolcano-alert-the-most-dangerous-volcano-in-america-is-roaring-to-life-2782224.html

 

[Voluntarism]

#3 The next eruption of Yellowstone seems to be getting closer with each passing year. Since 2004, some areas of Yellowstone National Park have risen by as much as 10 inches.
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#8 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest United States with volcanic ash. Food production in America would be almost totally wiped out.

#9 The “volcanic winter” that a massive Yellowstone eruption would cause would radically cool the planet. Some scientists believe that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.

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What makes all of this even more alarming is that a number of other very prominent volcanoes around the world are starting to roar back to life right now as well.

For example, an Inquisitr article from back in July described how “the most dangerous volcano in Mexico” is starting to become extremely active…

Popocatepetl Volcano is at it again. The active volcano near Mexico City erupted again this morning, spewing ash up into the sky.

The volcano is currently in the middle of an extremely active phase. According to the International Business Times, the volcano has registered 39 exhalations in the last 24 hours.

An eruption earlier this month caused several flights to be canceled in and out of Mexico City.

The BBC notes that officials raised the alert level yellow following Popocateptl’s eruption on Saturday morning. Yellow is the third-highest caution level on the city’s seven step scale.

And an NBC News article from August noted that one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Japan has erupted 500 times so far this year…

Ash wafted as high as 3 miles above the Sakurajima volcano in the southern city of Kagoshima on Sunday afternoon, forming its highest plume since the Japan Meteorological Agency started keeping records in 2006. Lava flowed just over half a mile from the fissure, and several huge volcanic rocks rolled down the mountainside.

Though the eruption was more massive than usual, residents of the city of about 600,000 are used to hearing from their 3,664-foot neighbor. Kagoshima officials said in a statement that this was Sakurajima’s 500th eruption this year alone.

So what does all of this mean?

Are we now entering a time when volcanic eruptions will become much more common all over the globe?

Could we rapidly be approaching the day when an absolutely devastating volcanic eruption will paralyze much of North America?

Please feel free to share what you think by posting a comment below…

 

[Voluntarism]

Under this are two comments:

amommamust

Ho-ho-ho! Merry Prepper’s Christmas!!!
You know, this is one of the stories that goes round and round and round…
So, how is it that the professional has never seen anything like this in 53 years, but I saw pretty much this EXACT STORY in 2007?
Yes, Yellowstone is going to suck when it blows. How shall we prep? Build a spaceship? Learn to fly lavaballs?
Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. Get over fearing the end of it, and enjoy it while it lasts.

truthuncovered

When I went to Yellowstone, I was told that there are earthquakes at least every ten days or there about . You can see that information on their web site as well

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[MakeEmTalk]

I monitor the Intermountain West quake reports daily, which includes Yellowstone.

Yellowstone had been recently experiencing an EQ cluster, (cluster=a bunch), but over the last week it's subsided, and not much activity now.

This cluster did not rise to the level of 2007, but was typical of clusters that occur regularly, while producing no disasters. Also, a cluster, whether large or small, is not a predictor of 'WHEN!', so be prepared to spend the rest of your life watching with nothing happening.

The ground upthrust is an ongoing, continuous event, and although it *is* an event, no one makes any claim that it's indicative of anything other than the ground getting taller.

If you'd like to monitor goings-on at Yellowstone, this link will get you there:

http://quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

 

[Leòmhann]

If you'd like to monitor goings-on at Yellowstone, this link will get you there:

http://quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

MakeEmTalk, thank you :) for that link...

Also, Ben Davidson, over at Suspicious0bservers (_http://www.youtube.com/suspicious0bservers / _http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/) keeps tabs on earthquakes (besides earth and space weather, etc)...and he also has a couple of earthquake-monitoring resources he uses daily:

RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service _http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php (this one is particularly useful to keep tabs on all kinds of events/incidents)

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre _http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

 

[MakeEmTalk]

If you'd like to monitor goings-on at Yellowstone, this link will get you there:

http://quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

MakeEmTalk, thank you :) for that link...

Also, Ben Davidson, over at Suspicious0bservers (_http://www.youtube.com/suspicious0bservers / _http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/) keeps tabs on earthquakes (besides earth and space weather, etc)...and he also has a couple of earthquake-monitoring resources he uses daily:

RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service _http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php (this one is particularly useful to keep tabs on all kinds of events/incidents)

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre _http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

Thanks for your links, also. Had always wondered what EMSC stood for, so now I know. I'll have a look at the suspicious0bservers site, also.

Thanks again.

A couple links I probably should have included on US EQ's:

California:
http://www.data.scec.org/recent/

Intermountain West:
http://quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/anss_imw.html

Midwest/Atlantic: (Not terribly useful)
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/

Word of warning: If you go to any usgs.gov site, they are operated by Level3, (NSA). None of the above sites are 'on the list'.

 

[doublea1535]

Word of warning: If you go to any usgs.gov site, they are operated by Level3, (NSA). None of the above sites are 'on the list'.

What do you mean that they are operated by Level3? That the primary connection to their sites traverses the Level3 network? If so, that's not exactly an easy situation to avoid.

 

[MakeEmTalk]

Word of warning: If you go to any usgs.gov site, they are operated by Level3, (NSA). None of the above sites are 'on the list'.

What do you mean that they are operated by Level3? That the primary connection to their sites traverses the Level3 network? If so, that's not exactly an easy situation to avoid.

Correct on both points.

Many of the US Government sites are accessed through Level3, which if not an actual government front, is a contractor near and dear to their hearts.

That's why I posted the links that I use to access the information. None of them go through Level3.

 

[bltay]

I was in the Lower Geyser Basin in YNP on a day after 4 quakes were reported the previous night in Pocket Basin, a part of the Lower Geyser Basin. I do not recall the exact date, sometime in late September. Several people, including myself, were there to see if the quakes had any effect on 2 major geysers in the area.

Morning Geyser had been dormant for about 19 years and started erupting again last year. Fountain Geyser is next to Morning Geyser and it erupts quite regularly. While they are not characterized as predictable, they have a certain routine, and if you learn them, you can expect something to happen within about a 2 hour window. Pocket Basin is about 1/4 mile from these geysers. While waiting on one or both of these geysers to erupt, we felt 2 small shocks, and one quake we later found to have registered at 3.6. All of these were centered in Pocket basin. The 3.6 quake shook the boardwalk where we were observing the geysers, but not enough to knock anyone off their feet. It made a loud popping noise. I assumed this was from the ground movement.

There was no noticeable change in the geyser activity as a result of these quakes. Geysers are very susceptible to quake activity, and there does not seem to be any changes as a result of these quakes. For this reason, my personal opinion is that they are not of any great significance if trying to connect them to a major supervolcano eruption..