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#267964 - 03/08/14 07:50 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: AKSAR]
Russ Offline
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Thanks AKSAR, I sent that link back in a reply to the email. Amazing how peeps get all worked up.

Back to more pressing matters ...

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#267983 - 03/09/14 07:11 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: Russ]
James_Van_Artsdalen Offline
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Wired has a guest columnist who is a geologist who addressed these rumors a month ago. He makes the additional point that Yellowstone eruptions, when they do occur, are rarely bigger than MT St. Helens events.

Erik Klemetti's column

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#267985 - 03/09/14 09:27 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: James_Van_Artsdalen]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Registered: 08/03/07
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The problem is that no one ever believes the Soothsayer, such as 'Cassandra the Soothsayer' in the Classic 1971 Film 'Up Pompeii', until its too late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tc_CGyBvNg

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#268406 - 03/20/14 11:57 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: Russ]
wildman800 Offline
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Per the "internet", the buffalo are running away from the Yellowstone Caldera. I have yet to see any corrobative statements. They might be feeling frisky and playing also.
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#268407 - 03/21/14 12:30 AM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
Mark_R Offline
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"Cassandra the Soothsayer"? No. "Cassandra the Seismologist"? Yes.
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#268411 - 03/21/14 01:51 AM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: wildman800]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Quote:
Per the "internet", the buffalo are running away from the Yellowstone Caldera. I have yet to see any corrobative statements. They might be feeling frisky and playing also.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiexHmbJlp4

That is unusual considering that the buffalo aren't concerned at all about the vehicle taking the video, whilst they are running away from the volcanic vent/gassing event on the ridge they have come down from.


Edited by Am_Fear_Liath_Mor (03/21/14 02:04 AM)

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#268413 - 03/21/14 03:32 AM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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Bison aren't concerned about vehicles. Especially in National Parks and similar venues, they see them all the time. The typical SUV is barely in their weight class..
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#268438 - 03/21/14 03:53 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: hikermor]
AKSAR Offline
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I refuse to be buffaloed into worrying about an eruption.
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#268446 - 03/21/14 06:01 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: Russ]
wildman800 Offline
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My POV is that if I have no ability to control, influence, or mitigate the outcome, then I won't waste my energy worrying about it. Life is too short.

As a PREPPER, I'm able to mitigate the personal effects that most man or natural made incidents can have on me and my family. I leave everything else in God 's hands to have us where we are supposed to be at that time.
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#268448 - 03/21/14 06:45 PM Re: Yellowstone Caldera acting up?? [Re: wildman800]
AKSAR Offline
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The Yellowstone Caldera seems to be a very hot topic these days on ETS. smile

The Wired article Future Eruptions at Yellowstone Caldera gives a nice ballpark estimate of the the most likely scenarios at Yellowstone.

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Just because Yellowstone has produced three very large eruptions over the last 2.2 million years doesn’t mean that you should expect such an eruption. The caldera system has had plenty of smaller, dome-forming or explosive eruptions in the intervening years (and since the last caldera-forming eruption; see above), so in terms of the likeliest events, that is what to expect. In the paper by Guillaume Girard and John Stix in GSA Today, they suggest that the likeliest events to happen at Yellowstone in the near future are small, dome-forming eruptions or phreato-magmatic (water-influenced) explosions that follow pre-existing faults in the caldera, especially along the western rim. In fact, another study by Christiansen and others (2007) showed that probabilistically, another caldera-forming eruption is the least likely scenario for future activity at Yellowstone.

Certainly even a small eruption would no doubt cause an explosion of interest on the internet, put the heat on the Park Service, and rock the buffalo's world. However the possibility of a major caldera scale event it isn't something I lose a great deal of sleep over.
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