DutchGT500 Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Fortunately we have been to Yellowstone last summer and saw all the wonders, including Grizzly, Black Bear, Coyote and Bison. Although the kids didn't like the smell of the sulphur mudpools. Well, I have a spare room here. So when it happens, you are welcome. The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004. 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. On the verge of a catastrophe? Yellowstone National Park's caldera has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years and scientists monitoring it say we could be in for another eruption. This is the nightmare that scientists are predicting could happen if the world’s largest super-volcano erupts for the first time in 600,000 years, as it could do in the near future. Yellowstone National Park’s caldera has erupted three times in the last 2.1million years and researchers monitoring it say we could be in for another eruption. They said that the super-volcano underneath the Wyoming park has been rising at a record rate since 2004 - its floor has gone up three inches per year for the last three years alone, the fastest rate since records began in 1923. But hampered by a lack of data they have stopped short of an all-out warning and they are unable to put a date on when the next disaster might take place. When the eruption finally happens it will dwarf the effect of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which erupted in April last year, causing travel chaos around the world. The University of Utah's Bob Smith, an expert in Yellowstone's volcanism told National Geographic: ‘It's an extraordinary uplift, because it covers such a large area and the rates are so high. ‘At the beginning we were concerned it could be leading up to an eruption.’ But he added: ‘Once we saw the magma was at a depth of ten kilometres, we weren't so concerned. ‘If it had been at depths of two or three kilometre we'd have been a lot more concerned.’ Robert B. Smith, professor of geophysics at the University of Utah, who has led a recent study into the volcano, added: ‘Our best evidence is that the crustal magma chamber is filling with molten rock. ‘But we have no idea how long this process goes on before there either is an eruption or the inflow of molten rock stops and the caldera deflates again’. The Yellowstone Caldera is one of nature’s most awesome creations and sits atop North America’s largest volcanic field. Its name means ‘cooking pot’ or ‘cauldron’ and it is formed when land collapses following a volcanic explosion. In Yellowstone, some 400 miles beneath the Earth’s surface is a magma ‘hotspot’ which rises to 30 miles underground before spreading out over an area of 300 miles across. Atop this, but still beneath the surface, sits the slumbering volcano. They have also been keeping an eye on a ‘pancake-shaped blob’ of molten rock he size of Los Angeles which was pressed into the volcano some time ago. But due the extreme conditions it has been hard to work out what exactly is going on down below, leading researchers unable to say with certainty what will happen - or when. Since the most recent blast 640,000 years ago there have been around 30 smaller eruptions, the most recent of which was 70,000 years ago. They filled the caldera with ash and lava and made the flat landscape that draws thousands of tourists to Yellowstone National Park every year. ‘Clearly some deep source of magma feeds Yellowstone, and since Yellowstone has erupted in the recent geological past, we know that there is magma at shallower depths too,’ said Dan Dzurisin, a Yellowstone expert with the U.S. Geological Survey at Cascades Volcano Observatory in Washington State. ‘There has to be magma in the crust, or we wouldn't have all the hydrothermal activity that we have. ‘There is so much heat coming out of Yellowstone right now that if it wasn't being reheated by magma, the whole system would have gone stone cold since the time of the last eruption 70,000 years ago.’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hawkins Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Does this mean that Florida is going to get very crowded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormeaston Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Your just full of good news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt350lp Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Great Thanks for the Great News....Maybe we should have a preempetive nuclear strike to release the pressure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGT500 Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Does this mean that Florida is going to get very crowded? I suppose so. Now you have snow birds and after the big bang a lot of birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGT500 Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Great Thanks for the Great News....Maybe we should have a preempetive nuclear strike to release the pressure... That's why we offer a place to stay. Mi casa e su casa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickSilverShelby Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 I think a really big hole should be dug and fill it with water. Then we could have the worlds biggest hot tub....... it would be huge!!!!!!!!! Yeah............. big hot tub........ mmmmmmmm. QSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Patrick, funny you post this on this day. Just two weeks ago I awoke with a 'strong feeling' that something BIG is coming in Calif. in the month of Feb. I won't get into anything else, or details, just wanted to be on record. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt350lp Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Patrick, funny you post this on this day. Just two weeks ago I awoke with a 'strong feeling' that something BIG is coming in Calif. in the month of Feb. I won't get into anything else, or details, just wanted to be on record. Chris Earthquake???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGT500 Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Patrick, funny you post this on this day. Just two weeks ago I awoke with a 'strong feeling' that something BIG is coming in Calif. in the month of Feb. I won't get into anything else, or details, just wanted to be on record. Chris Could be a quake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGT500 Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Earthquake???? No, in Gilroy it is a Garlic quake. :happy feet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportscars Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 You know its going to happen just as soon as you move here. I'd offer my house, but lava flows downhill so it would be coming my way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt350lp Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 No, in Gilroy it is a Garlic quake. :happy feet: Yes, every morning wake up to the sweet smell of garlic and onions...being Italian I love it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hawkins Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Patrick, funny you post this on this day. Just two weeks ago I awoke with a 'strong feeling' that something BIG is coming in Calif. in the month of Feb. I won't get into anything else, or details, just wanted to be on record. Chris Dolly Pardens Bra Museum is opening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Yes guys...a quake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DubbsFaris Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Well, it would stop global warming at least! Im not worried, since an eruption every 600,000 years is not much time in geological times, it is roughly 3-6X the history of mankind....the chances of it happening in our lifetimes is so small, I cant worry about it. Besides, I have a small part of me that enjoys chaos, and with all the guns I have, I almost welcome the collapse of society. Maybe thats why I enjoy movies about zombies so much. Hey Chris, now that you are on record as having a nostradamus vision, do you think its much of a stretch that you make a blanket statement about a catastrophe in CA sometime in Feb.? I think CA has a catastrophe about every three to four weeks anyway...if its not wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes or monsoons, its the state government doing its best to rid CA of any viable business. Maybe they will repeal medical marijuana....that would be a catastrophe for all the surfers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Sorry. Just thought it odd to see this thread today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY500SS Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Yes guys...a quake. Oh great...............the 94 Northridge quake just about put Marji in padded room . One more like that and she's moving out of Cali. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Handler Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows let me say now Now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows Ground she's moving under me Tidal waves out on the sea Sulphur smoke up in the sky Pretty soon we learn to fly let me hear ya now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows Now my girl quickly said to me Man you better watch your feet Lava come down soft and hot You better love-a me now or love-a me not Let me say now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows Mr. Utley! (music break) No time to count what I'm worth Cause I just left the planet earth Where I go I hope there's rum Not to worry man soon come Now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows One more now I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows But I don't want to land in the New York City I don't want to land in Mexico I don't want want to land on no Three Mile Island I don't want to see my skin aglow I don't want to land in Commanchee sky park Or in Nashville, Tennessee I don't want to land in no San Juan airport Or in Yukon Territory I don't want to land in no San Diego I don't want to land in no Buzzard's Bay I don't want to land on no Ayatolah I got nothing more to say I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'm a-gonna go when the volcano blows Jimmy Buffett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 I'm NOT predicting anything here. I am just saying, as I told my wife that day I woke up with a bad feeling. My grandmother was half Cherokee Indian, and had preminitional dreams throughout most of her adult life. She was very notorious for dreaming airliner accidents. Not the specific dates, just a few months out each time. Crazy. She began having them around her mid to late 40's. I'm just south of 50. Since I've told you this much, I have had some discussion in the past with Dave, (DDT). He has teased me a little. A couple years ago, I had three times, a re-occurring dream that my wife and I survived a tsunami in SanDiego. In the dream, we end up on the top of a red brick bank building...each time. The last of the three dreams, there was only one wave, however, the first two dreams there were two giant waves. I know I will get teased, and I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, and never see it in my lifetime! I just am going on record as my Grandma always did. And......only because Patrick posted this today. Please don't flame me guys, I'm NOT a freak! edit- Believe me, I'd LOVE to be able to tell ya who's gonna win the SuperBowl!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DubbsFaris Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Nah, Im not dogging you on this! Its all good, Im just teasing you that foretelling of catastrophes in CA is like foretelling the sun will come up tomorrow! That poor state gets the lion's share of trouble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hawkins Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 I hope it's not Bank Of America..................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY500SS Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 I'm NOT predicting anything here. I am just saying, as I told my wife that day I woke up with a bad feeling. My grandmother was half Cherokee Indian, and had preminitional dreams throughout most of her adult life. She was very notorious for dreaming airliner accidents. Not the specific dates, just a few months out each time. Crazy. She began having them around her mid to late 40's. I'm just south of 50. Since I've told you this much, I have had some discussion in the past with Dave, (DDT). He has teased me a little. A couple years ago, I had three times, a re-occurring dream that my wife and I survived a tsunami in SanDiego. In the dream, we end up on the top of a red brick bank building...each time. The last of the three dreams, there was only one wave, however, the first two dreams there were two giant waves. I know I will get teased, and I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, and never see it in my lifetime! I just am going on record as my Grandma always did. And......only because Patrick posted this today. Please don't flame me guys, I'm NOT a freak! edit- Believe me, I'd LOVE to be able to tell ya who's gonna win the SuperBowl!! The day before the Northridge quake hit it was an unusually warm day for January. Joking around I told Marji "It feels like earthquake weather". Less then 24 hrs later it hit. Now I didn't predict anything as I was just teasing Marji but it is sometimes strange the feelings we get come to pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 The day before the Northridge quake hit it was an unusually warm day for January. Joking around I told Marji "It feels like earthquake weather". Less then 24 hrs later it hit. Now I didn't predict anything as I was just teasing Marji but it is sometimes strange the feelings we get come to pass. My wifes brother was in an apartment in Northridge that fateful day! He was so sketched out by the event he moved back to Phx. two weeks later, and has never gone back! He said you couldn't even get a pizza that day, as everyone was inendated with orders and it was utter chaos there! I was in the '71 Selmar quake. I awoke to my bed shaking at just 10 years old. From that day on I was probably in another five or six from time to time....mostly in SanDiego and LaJolla. We lived in Placentia in 1971, and I remember a bunch of houses sliding down into giant revenes. I was asleep in a hotel in SanFran one morning about 7 or 8 years ago, while on a trip with my wife to Safeways headquarters, when we woke up to a GIANT thump into the building...we thought. Turns out it was the place shaking and 'creaking' from an earthquake. We totally thought a dump truck or something had hit the building! And who could forget the 'Bay Series' in 1989?????? Al Michaels won't soon forget it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY500SS Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 My wifes brother was in an apartment in Northridge that fateful day! He was so sketched out by the event he moved back to Phx. two weeks later, and has never gone back! He said you couldn't even get a pizza that day, as everyone was inendated with orders and it was utter chaos there! I was in the '71 Selmar quake. I awoke to my bed shaking at just 10 years old. From that day on I was probably in another five or six from time to time....mostly in SanDiego and LaJolla. We lived in Placentia in 1971, and I remember a bunch of houses sliding down into giant revenes. I was asleep in a hotel in SanFran one morning about 7 or 8 years ago, while on a trip with my wife to Safeways headquarters, when we woke up to a GIANT thump into the building...we thought. Turns out it was the place shaking and 'creaking' from an earthquake. We totally thought a dump truck or something had hit the building! And who could forget the 'Bay Series' in 1989?????? Al Michaels won't soon forget it! That was a rough day to say the least. I spent the day riding my dirt bike across the Valley checking on family members. I was also in the Sylmar quake. My family had just moved to Van Nuys from Brooks Oregon the month before. I guess our timing really sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT NAJA Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Patrick, funny you post this on this day. Just two weeks ago I awoke with a 'strong feeling' that something BIG is coming in Calif. in the month of Feb. I won't get into anything else, or details, just wanted to be on record. Chris Chris, I think this feeling you're having is proof that Dave (DDT) is correct with his prediction that the Packers will win the Super Bowl. Now that could shake L.A. like an earthquake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKEBOY Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Chris, I think this feeling you're having is proof that Dave (DDT) is correct with his prediction that the Packers will win the Super Bowl. Now that could shake L.A. like an earthquake. That there is funny!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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