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Topic started on 2-1-2009 @ 03:49 PM by Realtruth

Evacuation Warning! Yellowstone National Park Area


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Update time = Thu Jan 1 19:31:44 UTC 2009

Posted by geologist Christopher C. Sanders on January 1, 2009.

"I am advising all State officials around Yellowstone National Park for a potential State of Emergency. In the last week over 300 earthquakes have been observed by the USGS. We have a 3D view on the movement of magma rising underground. We have all of the pre warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. - I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano caldera."
(visit the link for the full news article)


Mod Edit: Title changed to include "Non Official" to reflect the warning is from a private geologist and not a "Official Government Spokesperson".


[edit on 1-2-2009 by worldwatcher]



[edit on 2-1-2009 by Realtruth]


reply posted on 2-1-2009 @ 03:58 PM by ColoradoJens
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Wow. I am truly worried by this. I'd like to know who the geologist is and what his data/sources are (in print?) Ugg....

ColoradoJens


reply posted on 2-1-2009 @ 04:01 PM by tarifa37
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Check this out, news item from US News www.usnews.com...
Quote from that article from Yellowstone geologist, Paul Doss
["And how much warning would you get if Yellowstone was going to go?"
He shrugged. "Nobody was around the last time it blew, so nobody knows what the warning signs are. Probably you would have swarms of earthquakes and some surface uplift and possibly some changes in the patterns of behavior of the geysers and steam vents, but nobody really knows."

"So it could just blow without warning?"

He nodded thoughtfully. The trouble, he explained, is that nearly all the things that would constitute warning signs already exist in some measure at Yellowstone. "Earthquakes are generally a precursor of volcanic eruptions, but the park already has lots of earthquakes-1,260 of them last year. Most of them are too small to be felt, but they are earthquakes nonetheless."]


reply posted on 2-1-2009 @ 04:08 PM by burdman30ott6
www.denverpost.com...

They have recorded 3 quakes over 3 magnitude today alone and 2 additional over 3's yesterday.

I also found this: www.usnews.com...:capital-commerce:yellowstone-earthqua kes-supervolcano-update

Paul Doss is heavily quoted in this article and he sounds very level headed. He actually is asked about a potential evacuation, and his reply doesn't exactly strike me as that of a man who believes it would be able to be conducted outside of an extraordinary event:
Evacuating Yellowstone would never be easy. The park gets some three million visitors a year, mostly in the three peak months of summer. The park's roads are comparatively few and they are kept intentionally narrow, partly to slow traffic, partly to preserve an air of picturesqueness, and partly because of topographical constraints. At the height of summer, it can easily take half a day to cross the park and hours to get anywhere within it. "Whenever people see animals, they just stop, wherever they are," Doss says. "We get bear jams. We get bison jams. We get wolf jams."


Edited to correct an erroneous misread on my part. Paul Doss wasn't the geologist who issued this warning. Don't know how I made that mistaken connection.

[edit on 2-1-2009 by burdman30ott6]
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