What is the current seismic status of Yellowstone National Park and other volcanic hotspots?
Dec 27, 2011
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Earthquake Questions
With all these quakes going on, we need to go ahead and admit there are some tectonic changes going on. Has anyone seen the current status of Yellowstone or any of the other known seismic and volcanic hotspots?
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4 comments
Foremost authority on December 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
With no intention of being a prophet of doom, The giant volcano that is yellowstone is about 1000 years overdue to erupt. When it does, it could be the end of life as we know it. If not for the world, at least for most of the northern hemisphere.
MacG on December 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
There is no reason to believe that Earthquakes that far away would have any impact at all on the US, aside from possible tsunamis, of course. However, if Yellowstone is gonna blow, you might as well be there and get the end over with, because ain’t nobody gonna make it. Mass extinction event.
Craig C on December 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Yellowstone has NOT been affected by the earthquake in Japan or anywhere else. The eruption of Yellowstone would be a mass extinction event so there’s no need to be concerned because we wouldn’t be here to deal with the aftermath.
fishing66833 on December 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
I believe it will get worse, and here’s why. Water weighs 8 pounds per gallon, and that weight distribution is changing. All that ice at the poles and at higher elevations has been relatively stable for eons. Now is it melting at an increasing rate, and all that weight shift has to have some effect. I’ve been telling people for years, the earth is like a boiled egg with a cracked shell. The shell is the crust and the egg inside is the core and molten part. Our earth egg’s crust is cracked, with oceanic pressure and atmospheric pressure pushing down on it at all times, due to gravity. If you apply slow steady pressures, the cracked egg’s shell shifts accordingly, slow and steady. But if you rapidly change the amount of pressure, or the locations, there’s a radical change in movement the egg shell crust. I don’t see why the earth would not react to this weight shift in a way similar to the egg. What worries me is if true, it will result in more earthquakes, stronger, and in more locations. The volcanic activity would also change. What worries me along with it all is the balanced wheel effect it could have on the earth’s rotation. If that weight shifts past a point, the earth may destabilize and start to shift or wobble as it rotates. That would cause the distribution of the sun’s rays to change, and possibly past the point we could live through. The location and size of polar regions and equatorial zones chould change radically in a very short amount of time. Scary thought, not much to do about it except hope for the best.