Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
One day it will happen.
Scientists assure us that one day the absolutely massive Yellowstone supervolcano will once again experience a Category 8 eruption, and if it happened today it would “literally tear the guts out of the United States of America”. That is why what has been happening at Yellowstone in recent months is so alarming. We know that the ground has been rising and that “a 465-mile-long piece of molten rock” is moving upwards directly under Yellowstone. And we also know that the major geysers at Yellowstone were more active last year than in any other year in any of our lifetimes. Are these signs that an eruption is coming? We better hope not, because as Dr. Michio Kaku recently told Fox News, there is “a sleeping Godzilla underneath Yellowstone”…
Dr Kaku told Fox News: “Forget the image of Yogi Bear representing Yellowstone.
“We’re talking about a sleeping Godzilla underneath Yellowstone, that if it erupts in a maximum eruption called Category 8, it can literally tear the guts out of the United States of America.
“Instead of having 50 states of the Union, we would have 30 states of the Union.“
We live at a time when seismic activity has been increasing all over the world, and Yellowstone has also been exhibiting very unusual behavior.
However, Dr. Kaku says that we shouldn’t worry too much, because he believes that we will get warnings about a Yellowstone eruption in advance…
“Unlike a meteor from outer space, where you get no warning whatsoever, we get warnings.
“If you see movies like Pompeii, you know that there are days, in fact, weeks of eruptions building up, rumbling inside, underneath the pocket of lava.
“So there would be enough time, several weeks, to begin evacuation if and when such an unlikely event were to take place.”
But what if we have been ignoring the warnings that we have already been getting?
For example, Steamboat geyser erupted more times in 2018 than in any other year in history. The following comes from National Geographic…
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory reports that Steamboat has now set a record by erupting a whopping 32 times in 2018, a personal best for the geyser for a single calendar year. Previously, this geyser made it as high as 29 paroxysms back in 1964.
Other nearby geysers have also been behaving fairly interestingly of late. Ear Spring Geyser, for example, has been pretty quiet since 1957, but it erupted spectacularly a few months back—and sprayed human garbage from the 1930s everywhere.
Prior to last year, there had not been an eruption of the Steamboat geyser for three and a half years.
In addition, the ground under Yellowstone has been steadily rising for the last few years, and the area was hit by 121 earthquakes in the month of December alone…
“In the area of Norris Geyser Basin, GPS data indicate a minor amount of uplift over the past few months, with a total uplift of about 2cm during 2018, also continuing the trend that has been ongoing since 2015.”
In the same Yellowstone update, the USGS revealed a total of 121 earthquakes were recorded in the Yellowstone area in December 2018 alone.
It is indeed possible that when Yellowstone finally erupts that we will get more of a warning than this.
But it is also possible that we will not.
When Yellowstone blows, life as you have known it will instantly be over. If you are not in the immediate kill zone, you will have an opportunity to try to survive, but it won’t be easy. One survivalist expert suggests that everyone should “head east as fast as you can”…
He added: “Zone one, which is a radius of 100 miles, could see 70,000 people die instantly.
“Zone two, which starts after 100 miles, would be covered in 10ft of volcanic ash at 450C.
“After the second zone, your chances of surviving increase, but still head east as fast as you can.
“Beyond zone six is where you would be the safest in the US for the short term, but the wind will greatly determine where ash falls.”
Personally, I don’t know if that is the best approach. The roads will be absolutely clogged, and there is no way that you are going to outrun the volcanic ash. If you get completely buried in volcanic ash in your vehicle, it will all be over.
Of course the truth is that if Yellowstone experiences a Category 8 eruption most Americans will eventually die no matter what they do. The following is an extended excerpt from one of my previous articles…
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 that live 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.
Let us hope and pray that nothing like this happens any time soon. Those of you that regularly follow my work already know that I am far more concerned about an eruption of Mt. Rainier, and we should also keep a very, very close eye on Mt. Fuji in Japan.
As our planet becomes increasingly unstable, there will be unprecedented natural disasters in the years ahead, and multitudes of people will die in those disasters.
Unfortunately, most of the “experts” continue to assure the public that everything is going to be “just fine”, but meanwhile the shaking of our planet just continues to get even worse with each passing year.
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The reason why seismic activity is going wild around the world, including Yellowstone, is because we are entering another Grand Solar Minimum, like that of the Maunder Minimum of the 17th century. Each GSM occurs about every 105 years, but every fourth one tends to affect the planet much worse than the others in between. As the old saying goes, “Its The Sun Stupid!” Our sun is not only the giver of life, but also throws huge temper tantrums, which this planet, and the others, must endure. There is a growing number of scientists who believe the sun periodically goes through minor novas, but that isn’t official yet.
Another thing: Yellowstone, like Hawai’i, and some others around the world, are “Hot Spot” volcanoes. The overwhelming majority of others are “Subduction Zone” volcanoes. The later is far more dangerous and destructive. For instance Campi Flegrei, sitting under Naples, Italy, is a “Subduction Zone” super volcano. The odds are that Campi Flegrei will be the next Big One. and it is every bit as active at this time. It has major eruptions about every 70-80 thousand years. Yellowstone’s last major eruption was around 640,000 years ago, but there have been several much lesser eruptions since then. The odds are that the next eruption will not be a Big One.
My best guess is that once we fully enter this GSM, things will calm down again. But like I mentioned above, seismic activity is going nuts all over the world right now, and folks are hyperventilating.
Is there any realistic way to short of smaller eruptions ect. to release pressure in a more controlled way I wonder.
I’ve asked myself the same thing numerous times, but haven’t come up with a logical answer. Trying to tap the caldera could have dire consequences for the tappers.
Wrong- we already entered it last year.
http://milesmathis.com/apollo.pdf
At least the property values in Denver will retreat to a more affordable level.
With the jet stream in effect wouldn’t it be better to travel south vs. east, I mean c’mon who writes this shit.
When Jupiter, Saturn and Earth form a line from the Sun, there are forces on the Earth’s magma that would pull/throw it away from the Earth’s center, like the Moon affects the sea water and causes tides. Two of those periods occur around July2020 (Western nights) and Feb2021 (Western days) as you can see in our Solar System Simulator. But first, click on “-” until Saturn and Jupiter do appear. http://www.faustweb.net/solaris/
I’m sitting pretty according to that map.
There’s enough to worry about in this country without catastrophists running around like Chicken Littles. There’s no point obsessing over low probability, high impact, 5 standard deviation events when we have neocons setting us on the path of nuclear war and dipshits like Occasional Cortex unable to perform simple math. Snyder should stick to law and let the critical thinking engineers focus on the problem solving.
Ignore Science, ignore Monetization, ignore VD, ignore the significance of the Bell Curve, ignore Hell and whatever else you want but there will be several Huge Destructive Volcanoes and Earthquakes in this GSM (the Eddy Minimum, which will probably last 30 or more years); Yellowstone is just one of many equally dire possibilities. We will have significant crop failures and northern winter storms the next two Winters; be a Prepper not a Schlepper.
Dr. Michio Kaku is about as fake of a scientist as you can get and still have a scientist. Yes this is all true. Yellowstone will erupt and wipe out most of the life in most of what is now the US. What they don’t tell you is that it will happen some time in the next few 100,000 years so the likelihood of it happening in our lifetimes is miniscule.
Don’t worry too much. This is Snyder we’re talking about. He’s always predicting doom. Like every single day. He works real hard at it, too, recycling his articles constantly and cranking out “Top 10 Reasons Why…” articles. I won’t deny his facts, since he at least cites his sources, just his methodology- this is a business for him.
Oz is looking better and better!