More than 800 earthquakes have now been recorded at the Yellowstone Caldera, a long-dormant supervolcano located in Yellowstone National Park, over the last two weeks – an ominous sign that a potentially catastrophic eruption could be brewing. However, despite earthquakes occurring at a frequency unseen during any period in the past five years, the US Geological Survey says the risk level remains in the “green,” unchanged from its normal levels, according to Newsweek.
The biggest earthquake in this “swarm” – which registered a magnitude of 4.4 – took place on June 15, three days after the rumblings started. That quake was the biggest in the region since a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck close to Norris Geyser Basin in March 2014. This magnitude 4.4 earthquake was so powerful that people felt it in Bozman Montana, about eight miles away.
A scientist from the University of Utah said the quakes have also included five in the magnitude three range, and 68 in the magnitude two range.
“The swarm consists of one earthquake in the magnitude 4 range, five earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range, 68 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range, 277 earthquakes in the magnitude 1 range, 508 earthquakes in the magnitude 0 range, and 19 earthquakes with magnitudes of less than zero,” the latest report said.
An earthquake with a magnitude less than zero is a very small event that can only be detected with the extremely sensitive instruments used in earthquake monitoring.”
The ‘Sunset Lake’ hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.
There is normally a rise in seismic activity before a volcano erupts. And scientists currently believe there’s a 10% chance that a “supervolcanic Category 7 eruption” could take place this century, as pointed out by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
An eruption, Kaku said, is long overdue: The last one occurred 640,000 years ago.
To be sure, the swarm has slowed down considerably this week, and larger swarms have been recorded in the past, according to Jacob Lowenstern, the scientists in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
Yet the possibility that the volcano could be on the verge of what’s called a “supereruption” should be enough to give the government pause. But scientists have said recently that there’s some evidence to suggest the next one could occur this century.
“Grand Prismatic” Hot Spring at Yellowstone.
So how would a supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone impact the regional ecosystem, and the US more broadly? Well, as Liberty Blog’s Michael Snyder points out, it would be nothing short of catastrophic.
Hundreds of cubic miles of ash, rock and lava would be blasted into the atmosphere, and this would likely plunge much of the northern hemisphere into several days of complete darkness. Virtually everything within 100 miles of Yellowstone would be immediately killed, but a much more cruel fate would befall those living in major cities outside of the immediate blast zone such as Salt Lake City and Denver.
Hot volcanic ash, rock and dust would rain down on those cities literally for weeks. In the end, it would be extremely difficult for anyone living in those communities to survive. In fact, it has been estimated that 90 percent of all people living within 600 miles of Yellowstone would be killed.
Experts project that such an eruption would dump a layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away, and approximately two-thirds of the United States would suddenly become uninhabitable. The volcanic ash would severely contaminate most of our water supplies, and growing food in the middle of the country would become next to impossible.
In other words, it would be the end of our country as we know it today.
The rest of the planet, and this would especially be true for the northern hemisphere, would experience what is known as a “nuclear winter”. An extreme period of “global cooling” would take place, and temperatures around the world would fall by up to 20 degrees. Crops would fail all over the planet, and severe famine would sweep the globe.
In the end, billions could die.
So yes, this is a threat that we should take seriously.
The potential catastrophic damage from the Yellowstone Caldera would destroy a large portion of the food basket of America . Although difficult to predict current known data says it’s 300 years late or in the next 10,000 years kaboom ! Even a blind squrill finds a nut !
How about all you climate change libtard activists down at the good old EPA concentrate on a real potential environmental disaster . And protect us from it with a long term plan to duck and cover rather than fucking with a Diesel engine bankrupting companies and destroying economically everything in your wake !
Not much protection going on for our tax dollar spent now is there !
Oooooooh….quick, call Al Gore.
This will propel him to billionaire status – CAGV,
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Volcanism
The UN, always reaching out for assistance to humanity (or more funding) has instituted a new agency, the IPES (International Panel on Earthquake Swarms) to ‘combat’ these swarms. We must take action ‘now’, before it is too late (which is never). These earthquake swarms are the fault of humans; the ‘science’ is settled and the debate is over. We will tax your ass till you are dead. More ‘doom porn’ = more tax dollars for the Mega Corp’s, Gov’t, and the wealthy.
Kokoda….E.S.M!! (Earthquake Swarms Matter)
People who are convinced that man is causing climate change have zero understanding, or zero knowledge of plate tectonics, which has not only shaped the climate we have today, but shaped human evolution as well and will continue to do so long after man is gone.
Which might be soon if this eruption is anything like the ones that came before.
While in Yellowstone last winter I watched an interesting movie in the visitor center explaining as the North American plate moves west at around one inch a year, shit can start to happen after millions of years, over and over and over again.
It’s pretty hard to comprehend earth, it’s age and man. We think the earth is here just for us.
But if you stretch your arms out wide, pretend that finger tip to finger tip would represent the age of the earth, your fingernail would represent how long life in it’s simplest form has been around, if you ran a file over the tip of your longest finger that would represent how long modern man has been around.
Man is just a fart in the wind because we live on a blue ball that might be pretty good at supporting life but even better at extinguishing it. Some scientist believe that 99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer living.
A map of previous super volcano’s, maybe 20 in the last 16 million years, we’re just along for the ride.
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There is no way to prepare for the sort of cataclysmic event described, and it is a fools errand to pretend to try. One can avoid a San Andreas earthquake or a usual-magnitude volcano by living away from them, but an explosion that affects the globe? Raining 10 feet of ash for hundreds of miles and plunging the temperature for years or perhaps decades? No preparation for that one at al, except for some sort of Strangelovian bunker.
It will be like SMOD in reverse! 🙂
Forget about the Health Care Bill, forget about Russia, forget about North Korea.
IS, I have a SMOD mug. Yes, SMOD in reverse.
according to Dutchsinse we should be more concerned with the slow slip event taking place on the West coast.
Dio…….from the vid, 10 min in to the hour+ length, these swarms are taking place over a lot of the globe.
The democrats should pass a law against this potential eruption.
The geysers were installed after the last eruption to let of steam and prevent future eruptions.
They’ve obviously worked since we haven’t had an eruption since.
I have never understood why when the Indians built our National Parks they didn’t put them closer to the big cities. It would be much more convenient.
I’m worried that California would survive.
Mt. Shasta could blow there and put California in the volcanic ash bin of history.
“planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do” – Major Tom
Out of 800 quakes, 527 had a magnitude of zero or less than zero. In yiddish that would mean you got bupkis and that also means this is mostly hype. Not to make light of the other nearly 300 small quakes.
Oz keeps looking better and better.
Llpoh
Have you ever seen the maps made by Casey of the Earth after the major Earth changes? Oz is 90% under the ocean. How long can you tread water Loopey?
Cayce, not Casey. First name Edgar.
Read “The Sleeping Prophet” for a primer on Cayce. Amazing person. 6th grade education but had access to Akashic records when in his trance. His wife transcribed every session, documented in the thousands and stored in the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, Va. His medical diagnostics were correct >80% of the time. He could conduct a “reading” across thousands of miles if given the person’s location and time of day.
Riser- Sorry…you are right….brain fart. And I have read all the books too and still spelled it wrong. Thanks!
The elderly and minorities will be most affected.
This is because the Lord has not been thanked enough for ridding the world of Ice Giants.
Let’s all Praise him and delay the apocalypse.
Yours in Odin,
RiNS
Praise Odin !!! on this wonderful THOR’Sday.
Yes we must praise Thor today!
Tomorrow it is FRIGG’Sday!
Geeze isn’t great being a Heathen.
The Chrispins, Joo’s and Musloids have just one special day each week.
Us Pagans have seven.
In Praise for Woden,
RiNS
The Solar Eclipse on 21Aug2017 will pass over the Cascadia Fault, Yellowstone Caldera and the New Madrid Fault and will exert a little extra gravitational tug; if any one of them goes off, it’s gonna be real bad.
We are entering a Grand Solar Minimum and Global Cooling for Sunspot Cycle 24 should “peak” (ie, be the worst) in the Winter of 2019 and could reflect the winter of 1976-77. Solar Cycle 25 is likely to take us into weather like the Little Ice Age (the Dalton Minimum or even the Maunder Minimum). There is always an increase in earthquakes and volcanoes during Grand Solar Minimums. http://robslink.com/SAS/democd24/sunspot.htm
I have fear-mongering fatigue. My response to Yellowstone is mild interest and then ho-hum. It is a lifelong battle to let go of things we have absolutely no control over instead of letting them increase our anxiety level, diminishing the pleasures of each day. They also distract from the more important job of managing ourselves, the one thing we do have control over.
I live in an area where The Big One is promised. Therefore I have emergency supplies for such an event. Since those are in place, I work at not worrying about it.
The list of things we need to be terrified of grows by the day, it seems: killer earthquakes and their tsunamis, volcanoes, asteroids, droughts, Niburu, nuclear war, an EMP attack, Islamic terrorists, economic collapse, environmental ruination, on and on it goes. The constant fear-mongering is a psyop I presume. Or, perhaps it is merely one way to keep the 24 hour news cycle more interesting and therefore profitable.
Trying to balance being reasonably well-informed versus wallowing in useless fear is a challenge of our age I think.
Better switch gears to get prepared.
Gayle, this RC might be for you. It works for me:
“There is normally a rise in seismic activity before a volcano erupts. And scientists currently believe there’s a 10% chance that a “supervolcanic Category 7 eruption” could take place this century, as pointed out by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.”
Yes VOLCANIC earthquakes rise before activity. Are these volcanic? aka harmonic?
10% chance based on what dataset?
What is a SUPERvolcanic category 7? or did they mean VEI-7 but SUPER makes it scarier.
Michio Kaku is about as credible as Bill Nye the fascist guy.
This is all horseshit and even if it isn’t, there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it.