Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Yellowstone is Bulging

Most of our readers are familiar with a little known fault called the New Madrid fault. It's not real well known because it only breaks every few hundred years....but when it breaks the resulting quake is massive.

Now let's introduce you to a little known volcano that is in Wyoming. It's not just a volcano. It's a SUPER VOLCANO. And it doesn't expode real often...but when it does it can be an earth-changer.

Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano just took a deep "breath," causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report.

The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions—each a thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens's 1980 eruption—three times in the past 2.1 million years. Yellowstone's caldera, which covers a 25- by 37-mile (40- by 60-kilometer) swath of Wyoming, is an ancient crater formed after the last big blast, some 640,000 years ago.


You can read it here; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110119-yellowstone-park-supervolcano-eruption-magma-science/

Understand that when St. Helen's blew, it had the power of a few atomic bombs. And when this one blows it can be a THOUSAND TIMES more powerful. That is one HUGE explosion!

Can you see how this could be another trigger that, if pulled, could collapse an awful lot of things?

1 Comments:

Blogger April Swartzer said...

We are planning a Yellowstone trip this summer. It will be interesting!

January 25, 2011 at 5:05 PM  

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