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1,008 earthquakes were detected in the Yellowstone National Park region in July 2021

Nothing burger until the ground starts to uplift and larger quakes/vents start.

All the quakes symbolizes is magma moving, not breaking news.
 
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Anybody want a pickle?

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For those who don't know, I believe Yellowstone touches off every 80,000 years and we are currently 20,000 years overdue for it to erupt.

When it happens, it'll wipe out all life in north America quickly, all life on earth pretty soon after that
 
Texas97 said:
For those who don't know, I believe Yellowstone touches off every 80,000 years and we are currently 20,000 years overdue for it to erupt.

When it happens, it'll wipe out all life in north America quickly, all life on earth pretty soon after that
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nah
not alllll life

some will make it
but we all will be painfully aware that it is happening
 
Texas97 said:
For those who don't know, I believe Yellowstone touches off every 80,000 years and we are currently 20,000 years overdue for it to erupt.

When it happens, it'll wipe out all life in north America quickly, all life on earth pretty soon after that
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SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
nah
not alllll life

some will make it
but we all will be painfully aware that it is happening
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Texas97 said:
For those who don't know, I believe Yellowstone touches off every 80,000 years and we are currently 20,000 years overdue for it to erupt.

When it happens, it'll wipe out all life in north America quickly, all life on earth pretty soon after that
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your numbers are off a lot. It's about every 600k years for the last 3 major events. It's been about 640k since the last.

I grew up just east of the park and have family and friends in the area. if she blows, say goodbye, but we are a blip in 640k years.
 
I also read years ago it has geothermal explosions that could kill a lot of life in the park

I’m going to google because I can’t remember
 
In addition to volcanic eruptions, there are other volcano related threats in Yellowstone including hydrothermal explosions. Yellowstone has a history of some of the worlds largest hydrothermal explosions. Large hydrothermal explosions (>100 m [~330 ft] in diameter) in Yellowstone have occurred over the past 16,000 years averaging ~1 every 700 years
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Texas97 said:
For those who don't know, I believe Yellowstone touches off every 80,000 years and we are currently 20,000 years overdue for it to erupt.

When it happens, it'll wipe out all life in north America quickly, all life on earth pretty soon after that
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Nope. It's every 600,000 - 800,000 years and it wouldn't wipe out all life in north america or on earth. If that was true there'd be no life today.
 
What I have an extremely hard time comprehending is the size of this underground void that fills and then bursts in these supervolcanic events

"According to analysis of earthquake data in 2013, the magma chamber is 80 km (50 mi) long and 20 km (12 mi) wide. It also has 4,000 km3 (960 cu mi) underground volume, of which 6–8% is filled with molten rock. This is about 2.5 times bigger than scientists had previously imagined it to be; however, scientists believe that the proportion of molten rock in the chamber is far too low to allow for another supereruption"

This reminds me of the journey to the center of the earth stories, how the hell is there a 50 mile by 12 mile mostly empty void just hanging out there however many tens/hundreds of miles below the earths surface. And under the immense pressures of those depths without collapsing into nothing
 
AgitatedPancake said:
What I have an extremely hard time comprehending is the size of this underground void that fills and then bursts in these supervolcanic events

"According to analysis of earthquake data in 2013, the magma chamber is 80 km (50 mi) long and 20 km (12 mi) wide. It also has 4,000 km3 (960 cu mi) underground volume, of which 6–8% is filled with molten rock. This is about 2.5 times bigger than scientists had previously imagined it to be; however, scientists believe that the proportion of molten rock in the chamber is far too low to allow for another supereruption"

This reminds me of the journey to the center of the earth stories, how the hell is there a 50 mile by 12 mile mostly empty void just hanging out there however many tens/hundreds of miles below the earths surface. And under the immense pressures of those depths without collapsing into nothing
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Something's fishy there. Is the rest filled with a different classification of rock, "semi-molten rock"? I don't buy that there's just a Hidden World full of Dino-people...

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I think the term is plastic, may be wrong stretching for knowledge learned long ago. Basically because the rocks are under so much pressure they are past the temperature of melting but they are still solid. When the magma chamber empties the above ground will collapse and form a caldera. They are hard to see though because its 20 miles x10 miles and 1000 feet deep. I think some of the volcanos in Indonesia will give you a idea as they are more recent eruptions and a smaller scale.
 
SanDiegoCJ said:
Nope. It's every 600,000 - 800,000 years and it wouldn't wipe out all life in north america or on earth. If that was true there'd be no life today.
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I'm off by a significant digit. But we're overdue for one.

And by life I mean humans. And most animals. Some life would survive, bacteria, invertebrates, flora, etc. Obviously, that kind of event has happened before. And not just from Jellystone
 
FleshEater said:
Bumping this. Anyone else see the mini eruption at Biscuit Basin this week?

I’m seeing it on Tik Tok, haven’t searched for videos.
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Sure did. It's astounding how fucking stupid people are. They just stood there while it erupted. I have a colleague in YNP this week, haven't talked to him to see if he was there for it.

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525K views · 44K reactions | A massive hydrothermal explosion rocked the popular Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park this morning, July 23. According to the National Park Service, the eruption occurred at approximately 10:19 A.M. local

A massive hydrothermal explosion rocked the popular Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park this morning, July 23. According to the National Park Service, the eruption occurred at...
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SanDiegoCJ said:
Yup. Reports are that this happens periodically. It doesn't portend "the end times".
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I can’t remember the name of the geyser but many years ago I just happened to be at the park when a steam vent erupted with water for the first time anyone had ever seen it do that. IIRC it went off a few more times that year and then went back to just being a vent.
 
JR4X said:
I can’t remember the name of the geyser but many years ago I just happened to be at the park when a steam vent erupted with water for the first time anyone had ever seen it do that. IIRC it went off a few more times that year and then went back to just being a vent.
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It happens all the time. It's nothing new.

I live close enough to be dead when the eruption happens. Drive through there and have worked there quite a bit.
Lots of things I noticed driving in every day in the winter that nobody would see if they didn't drive it every single day.
 
Chicken Little is :stirthepot: again...

In the 1930s one wall of Helena High came crashing down which sent my aunts and uncle to WA until Gpa was convinced the quakes had mellowed out. In 1959 the side of a mountain softened by some serious rain came down from a 7.2 quake to form Quake lake and a permanent burial ground for 28 some campers below Hebgen dam . Yesterday a thermal area sneezed closing Biscuit basin taking out a boardwalk and closing the area.


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Update on the July 23 Biscuit Basin hydrothermal explosion - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Geothermal and quakes compliments of volcanic activity are commonplace in and the area around the park with only the BIG ones being significant. Fact is the area is more active than all of CA fault lines...

For the "end of days" types...I would highly recommend learning the proper way to handle living in an area potentially smothered by ash or shaken by the calder a eruption. Its the same and with tornados, nuclear holocausts, quakes and other serious events. Sit down with your back to the wall (preferably a load bearing one) . Place your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
 
Chevy_man said:
It happens all the time. It's nothing new.

I live close enough to be dead when the eruption happens. Drive through there and have worked there quite a bit.
Lots of things I noticed driving in every day in the winter that nobody would see if they didn't drive it every single day.
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We live just over 3 hours east by car, so we're also in that "dead zone" if it ever goes off big.
 
Grnjp92 said:
There's going to be ash fallout and a really bad grow season to the east if that pops off in our life time!
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thats end all life on earth. whether its from the initial explosion or after that, everyone dies.
 
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