Yellowstone Volcanic Activity

[piasabird]

http://news.yahoo.com/supervolcano-yellowstone-turns-roads-soup-190206182.html

When the asphalt roadway is heated up and turns into soup would you say that is a bad sign? Is a super volcano going to erupt???

A road at Yellowstone National Park is melting from extreme heat due to an underground supervolcano. The roads connecting the Old Faithful geyser and the Madison Junction have been closed off to visitors.

“It basically turned the asphalt into soup,” Yellowstone spokesman Dan Hottle said, according to RT. ”It turned the gravel road into oatmeal.”

Now this is real global warming.

 

[zephyrprime]

I think we should be proactive about volcanic threats. We should drill into the side of them to relieve pressure and we should put lots of geothermal power stations there to cool the magma down. If it destroys some forest to do so, too fricken bad. An exploding volcano destroys a lot more forest.

 

[Abwx]

I think we should be proactive about volcanic threats. We should drill into the side of them to relieve pressure and we should put lots of geothermal power stations there to cool the magma down. If it destroys some forest to do so, too fricken bad. An exploding volcano destroys a lot more forest.

I like this unlimited faith in technology, surely a consequence of watching too much hollywood sci fi , do you realize what is one cubic kilometer of lava, for instance, bursting through the ground..?.

Google Krakatoa...

 

[IronWing]

Super volcano! Good thing the writer wasn't being sensationalist.

Cool story though.

 

[Newell Steamer]

The government is clearly involved - it wants to destroy our parks and force us to herp-a-derp.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yellowstone is a super volcano.

 

[IronWing]

Yellowstone is a super volcano.

It's a pretty nice volcano.

 

[PokerGuy]

It's a pretty nice volcano.

Actually, this appears to be the correct use of the term. It's not just hype term invented by the media.. from wiki:

A supervolcano is any volcano capable of producing a volcanic eruption with an ejecta volume greater than 1,000 km3 (240 cu mi). This is thousands of times larger than normal volcanic eruption

 

[PokerGuy]

We'd all better hope a real "boom" doesn't happen with that volcano anytime soon, or we're all pretty much screwed.

 

[Brovane]

I think we should be proactive about volcanic threats. We should drill into the side of them to relieve pressure and we should put lots of geothermal power stations there to cool the magma down. If it destroys some forest to do so, too fricken bad. An exploding volcano destroys a lot more forest.

Yellowstone could be a hugh source of Geo-thermal energy. The Federal govt forbids any type of development of this type of energy using Yellowstone because it would probably have a negative impact on the Geysers in the park.

 

[alzan]

Glad we visited last year cause we stayed at Old Faithful Lodge.

I can imagine what my reaction would have been upon being informed of a road closed due to increased thermal activity.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Saw a few alarmist types posts the last day or so, no different than the wildlife stampedes this spring, normal events.

http://news.yahoo.com/road-melts-yellowstone-volcanos-heat-222906706.html

"Road closures from heat damage aren't unusual in Yellowstone, which has more than 10,000 geothermal features and 500 geysers. The park has previously closed Firehole Lake Drive for repairs due to heat damage, Hottle said. "This road has had this particular issue in the past, but it doesn't happen too often," he said."


One of the more sensationalist pieces:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/...-massive-supervolcano-beneath-it-melts-roads/

 

[sunzt]

So if it explodes does that mean nuclear winter for 20 years?

 

[Pocatello]

I'm only 150 miles away, not good.

 

[Zorba]

Saw a few alarmist types posts the last day or so, no different than the wildlife stampedes this spring, normal events.

http://news.yahoo.com/road-melts-yellowstone-volcanos-heat-222906706.html

"Road closures from heat damage aren't unusual in Yellowstone, which has more than 10,000 geothermal features and 500 geysers. The park has previously closed Firehole Lake Drive for repairs due to heat damage, Hottle said. "This road has had this particular issue in the past, but it doesn't happen too often," he said."


One of the more sensationalist pieces:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/...-massive-supervolcano-beneath-it-melts-roads/

Damn logic

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I'm only 150 miles away, not good.

It wouldn't be good for any of us. I saw a discovery show on Yellowstone if I remember correctly the North East would get about five feet of ash. There could be toxic clouds for hundreds of miles. The size of a Yellowstone eruption is mind boggling.

 

[Jaskalas]

We'd all better hope a real "boom" doesn't happen with that volcano anytime soon, or we're all pretty much screwed.

Yellowstone is famous for its steam... hence, it's heated ground. A volcanic eruption, especially a large one, would almost certainly be preceded by harmonic tremors and large seismic activity.

Until the seismometers start going nuts, there's nothing to worry about.