Yellowstone Eruption in 2016

[libertybele]

This information is quite alarming really and great cause for concern with the recent extreme changes at Yellowstone. The video(s) shown (link at bottom) is absolutely astounding.  Other than pray, there isn't a darn thing we can do. 

Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Shocking New Video Shows What Is Really Going On At Yellowstone
We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity.

Over the past week, our planet has been hit by large earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery there are 38 volcanoes around the world that are erupting right now.

We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone is so incredibly alarming.  Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the country would immediately become uninhabitable.  As you will see below, there are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever.

I want to share with you some footage from Yellowstone that was recorded on Thursday night.  In this video, it appears to be as bright as day even though it is the middle of the night, you can see a whole host of geysers steaming violently, and Old Faithful just keeps going off over and over…

...But it wasn’t just that one night.  The weird activity at Yellowstone has continued, and you can watch even more recent footage that Kat Martin has posted right here andright here.

So what does this mean?

I don’t know, but watching that footage definitely got my attention.

And it is interesting to note that just a few weeks ago the Shoshone River changed color and started boiling without any warning whatsoever…

    The Shoshone River, near Yellowstone National Park, suddenly and without warning started boiling, changed color and began to emit a sulfuric odor on March 25. Nearby witnesses wondered if they were “all going to die.” The current consensus among geologists and other experts is that a portion of the Shoshone River began to boil, located near Cody, Wyoming, and a new Yellowstone vent has opened up.

    As Mysterious Universe reports, the boiling river near Yellowstone runs just east of Yellowstone National Park. It is close enough to the park and super volcano to be a “canary in a coal mine” as it relates to unusual geothermic events. The event was initially recorded by Dewey Vanderhoff, a photographer who spotted the Shoshone River near Yellowstone boiling and noted other bizarre features in the river.

When a river located above a supervolcano that could wipe out most of the countrystarts boiling, you would think that would make headline news all over the nation.

But it didn’t.

It would be exceedingly difficult to overstate the potential danger that Yellowstone poses to the United States.  Other than an extremely large asteroid or meteor, it is hard to imagine any natural disaster that would pose a greater threat.  The following comes from an excellent article by Steve Elwart…

    The Yellowstone Caldera, or cauldron, sits on top of North America’s largest volcanic field. Four hundred miles under the Earth’s surface is a magma ‘hotspot’ that reaches up to just 30 miles below ground level before spreading out over an area of 300 miles across three states.

    Over all this sits the volcano.

    While most scientists believe the probability of a major eruption is very small, there are signs that have some analysts worried, and most agree the volcano holds catastrophic potential.  It could blast 240 cubic miles of ash, rocks and lava into the atmosphere,rendering about two-thirds of the nation immediately uninhabitable, according to some estimates, and plunge the world into a “nuclear winter.”

That certainly does not sound good.

And as I mentioned above, volcanic activity all over the planet is rising.  38 volcanoes are erupting at the moment, and it seems like we hear about another new eruption almost every day now.

But let us hope that Yellowstone does not erupt any time soon.

There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the area around Yellowstone every single year, so it is a very seismically active region.  In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire northwest United States will be completely destroyed.  Basically everything within a 100 mile radius would be immediately killed, Salt Lake City would literally be toast, and almost everyone and everything in Denver would be dead in short order.

Further away, volcanic ash would rain down continually for weeks.  Those foolish enough to step outside would quickly discover that the ash turns into a substance similar to cement in the lungs, and many would die from suffocation.

The amount of volcanic ash released by Yellowstone would be almost unimaginable.  In fact, it has been estimated that a full-blown eruption would dump a layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away.

Food production in America would be almost totally wiped out, and the “volcanic winter” that would result from a Yellowstone eruption would dramatically cool the planet.  Some have projected that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.

In the end, the death, famine and destruction that we would experience would be vastly greater than anything that we have ever seen in the history of western civilization.

So yes, there is reason to be concerned that weird stuff is going on at Yellowstone right now.

Let us just hope and pray that we do not see an eruption in 2016 or any time soon.

http://www.infowars.com/yellowstone-eruption-in-2016-shocking-new-video-shows-what-is-really-going-on-at-yellowstone/

[libertybele]

....and more... seems like now it is looking that it could very well erupt this year!  Very alarming

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/21694/20160506/deadliest-supervolcano-underneath-yellowstone-national-park-might-erupt-this-2016.htm


...recent behavior of the caldera and the environment surrounding the National Park is causing an alarm. There were unusual seismic activities around the world and they believe it can trigger an early eruption of the volcano. There were fumes; illuminating ground and boiling of rivers near the area suggesting that the massive volcano might erupt this year.

According to a news report by Express UK, the newly released video of the volcano in Wyoming showing steam and ash rising in the surface creates a concern that the gigantic magma reserve underneath is about to blow. These behaviors weren't observed in the Yellowstone National Park earlier this year.
In the latest video enhanced by YouTube user Kath Martin, it could be observed that steam and heavier fumes were rising from the ground. And before the video finished, there was a spark seen which looks like it came from the ground. The person who published the video said that the footage was from the Geyser Observation and Study Association.

GOSA is the official observation partner of the Yellowstone National Park. The "purpose is the collection and dissemination of information about geysers and other geothermal phenomena in Yellowstone National Park ". GOSA constantly films time lapse videos of the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park using a webcam mounted in the area.

While another report said there were odd boiling of Shoshone River near the park last March. Although there were boiling rivers open for swimming in the park, locals who witnessed the boiling of water in Shoshone said it is the first time it happened on this part. This might also suggest that the supervolcano is about to blow and a vent was opened.

In the same report by Express, they stated that the super volcano's eruption is 2,000 times more devastating than a normal volcano. This can be attributed to the unusually large magma deposit underneath.

No one can say for sure if it will happen this year, but the unusual behavior of the caldera and the surroundings is telling us that something is brewing. If the catastrophic eruption happens, it can wipe out two thirds of the U.S. making it uninhabitable, some even say it can greatly damage the earth displacing millions of residents....

[montanajoe]

I've been going to Yellowstone for more than 60 years and have lived in around the caldera for most of my life. The park has been constantly changing as it always has been. New thermal features appear on a regular basis and others die out just as regularly. It's as predictable as some dumb azz tourist getting run over every year when they try to pet a buffalo.

Actually, the park is much less geologically active today than it was back in 1807 when Colter first saw it.

But after Trump it will be far more likely for another eruption to occur than for a Conservative to be elected president ....

[GreenAccord]

Predicting gigantic earthquakes or hurricanes or market crashes for that matter are the easiest predictions. A) Even when they don't happen, you're still just that much closer to being right next cycle/year/season and B) they're bound to happen as a matter of the passage of time anyway. You're never wrong, you're just waiting to be right.

[Bill Cipher]

But after Trump it will be far more likely for another eruption to occur than for a Conservative to be elected president ....

Ain't that the truth

[Smokin Joe]

I've been going to Yellowstone for more than 60 years and have lived in around the caldera for most of my life. The park has been constantly changing as it always has been. New thermal features appear on a regular basis and others die out just as regularly. It's as predictable as some dumb azz tourist getting run over every year when they try to pet a buffalo.

Actually, the park is much less geologically active today than it was back in 1807 when Colter first saw it.

But after Trump it will be far more likely for another eruption to occur than for a Conservative to be elected president ....

Most earthquakes and volcanoes are plate boundary or boundary associated phenomena. Either the volcanic activity is associated with the generation of new oceanic plate at spreading centers (like the Icelandic volcanoes), or is associated with subduction zones where one plate is being pushed beneath another plate (commonly associated with oceanic trenches (Many south pacific island arcs and the Cascades).

There are exceptions like the 'hotspots' that formed the Hawaiian Islands and the Yellowstone Caldera.

 Keep in mind the mantle plumes are relatively stable, it is the plates which move above those hotspots, leaving behind a string of islands or volcanic features which indicate how the plate has moved.

The earthquakes and volcanoes, depending on location, may herald more plate movement, but may not necessarily mean there will be a large hot spot associated eruption.

That would be something which we haven't measured before, but would involve a specific mantle plume, not necessarily related to the normal plate jostling associated volcanism and earthquakes.

Moving the plate over the hot spot might cause some activity related to shifting the plate over the plume and effectively moving the magma chamber relative to a point on the surface (even though it is the plate which is moving), but that might place the magma chamber under crust with better integrity than the old caldera. As that location changes, one might expect seismicity associated with eroding the host rock on the leading edge of the magma chamber, and changes in surface expressions of heat flow like thermal areas, hot springs, and geysers.

[montanajoe]

You can follow volcanic oozing which (don't suspect thats the right term) which I think is tectonic,  from east of Cedar City in Southern Utah, up through the Craters of the Moon area south of Idaho Falls and into Yellowstone but its was all pretty recent last 10,000 years or so. I've always wondered why if there was going to be a eruption of the Caldera that ooz would not have triggered it.

[Smokin Joe]

Here's a rundown on the eruption history:

http://www.yellowstonepark.com/yellowstones-supervolcano-and-volcanic-history/

The track of the Yellowstone hot spot, with graphic showing locations of past eruptions:

http://www.yellowstonegis.utah.edu/research/hotspot.html

[truth_seeker]

I've been going to Yellowstone for more than 60 years and have lived in around the caldera for most of my life. The park has been constantly changing as it always has been. New thermal features appear on a regular basis and others die out just as regularly. It's as predictable as some dumb azz tourist getting run over every year when they try to pet a buffalo.

Actually, the park is much less geologically active today than it was back in 1807 when Colter first saw it.

But after Trump it will be far more likely for another eruption to occur than for a Conservative to be elected president ....

My father grew up in Big Horn County Wyoming, and went to the park until moving away as a young adult. His grandfather registered for the draft in 1918, while residing in Sweetgrass County, Montana.

[montanajoe]

Here's a rundown on the eruption history:

Cool thanks, very interesting

[montanajoe]

My father grew up in Big Horn County Wyoming, and went to the park until moving away as a young adult. His grandfather registered for the draft in 1918, while residing in Sweetgrass County, Montana.

I'm very fortunate to been born and raised in Montana.

[Smokin Joe]

Cool thanks, very interesting

You're Welcome!

[uglybiker]

Somebody's 'predicting' that Yellowstone's gonna blow up every six months or so.
So take it for what it's worth.

[Smokin Joe]

Somebody's 'predicting' that Yellowstone's gonna blow up every six months or so.
So take it for what it's worth.

It's always good for a panic attack somewhere. Maybe MRE sales are lagging...

[The_Reader_David]

Somebody's 'predicting' that Yellowstone's gonna blow up every six months or so.
So take it for what it's worth.

And, of course, the "predictions" are always of a maximal eruption as a "supervolcano", rather than just a release of pressure that might, say, form one or more volcanic cones in the area. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Why worry about Yellowstone? I'm eagerly anticipating the Sweet Meteor of Death 2016:

https://twitter.com/smod2016?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[EC]

I love the translation of geological time into human time. In geology terms, "soon" is "sometime in the next fifty thousand years or so. Maybe. Sure, it could be tomorrow. You could be hit by a frozen pee meteor tomorrow too.