solarkin

Maybe Cthuluhu is waking up.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

The super volcano at Naples is waking up. It is around 140 miles away. I hope it isn't the reason. If it is causing that much movement, it would be a very bad sign. Campi Flegrei was the volcano responsible for the largest eruption in European history. Its Caldera is 8 miles wide. Wow.

solarkin

Pompeii?
Jakarta, Yellowstone,

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Damn fracking.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

Yellowstone has the largest caldera in the world and is capable of a much bigger eruption than the one near Naples, but that one is responsible for the largest eruption in European history.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

The magma dome is 4.5 miles deep so I doubt fracking is to blame...lol. Maybe before noon Friday Obama will EO it to be a world crime if it blows due to the CO2 emissions.

The ground has risen 38 cm since 2005. Not good. The experts say Vesuvius is a pimple compared to Campi Flegrei. It is capable of wiping out Europe. Vesuvius was rated at VEI 2. Many more people live near Naples compared to Vesuvius so even a milder eruption would be catastrophic in lives lost. The major problem is that most of it is off shore in the sea bed and the volcanologists and geophysicists say that the water/lava explosion is much more powerful than just lava alone.

Flegrei last erupted 39,000 years ago and is rated at the same power/destruction level as Krakatoa. VEI 7.

It's big. However, the last rating I've seen for the Yellowstone Caldera rated it as a VEI 10+. That is potential extinction level. World extinction.

Worst case scenario for Flegrei is all Europe including the Great Britan area.

Okay. I've bored you enough. Sorry.

bggamers Loc: georgia

Not bored my sons and I have always been interested in volcanos. Noted that many of our fault lines follow the ring of fire which is volcanos.They say yellow stone is also growing and its magma chamber is only like 5miles below the surfuce.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

The prevalent expectation is for no eruption this century but I was there just before the '88 fire then back in '98. I talked with some park rangers who said they had been documenting changes in greater geyser basin for 20 years. Ground swell changes etc but the biggest change had been in Old Faithful's timing and power. They were somewhat troubled by it.

As a side note....in '65 I was walking by Grand Geyser when it blew. Nova was filming because it only erupted every so many years and is actually several vents in a line. It blows about 600' in the air when it goes.

I was wearing a brand new heavy duty cable knit wool sweater with a heavy duty stainless steel full length zipper. I was drenched in hot water and received a few minor burns but my size 62 XXL long sweater shrunk and by the time I was off the boardwalk it was about a 38 reg. I had to be cut out of it as I could barely breath. That must be what being crushed by an anaconda feels like.

bggamers Loc: georgia

sorry to laugh at your discomfort but the picture in my head was just to funny

bggamers Loc: georgia

was looking at the earth quakes around the ring of fire starting on the 10 of jan and there have been at least 10 volcanoes blow the article I read was wondering why the US media had not picked up the storys because so far our country hasn't had one blow which would be mount saint helen though they have been watch mount rainier.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

Oh, it's funny now, but.not then. I was having a lot of trouble breathing by the time I got back to the lodge and my dad had to cut me out of the sweater with his pocket knife. That probably looked funny. He was 5'8" and I'm 6'7" so he stood on the rock in front of the fireplace. I didn't hear the last of it for years. All my clothes came from King Size Inc. in Brockton, Mass. and they weren't cheap. He had just retired and got me the sweater for the trip.

I asked him that since that geyser only erupted once every 11 years or so, did he think I planned to be there at exactly that moment? He said if anyone would have planned it, it would be me.

That geyser made Old Faithful look like an old drinking fountain. The other problem is the stinky sulphur water. I had to take 4 soapy showers before dinner.

Stuff always happened to me.

Sometime I'll tell you how I fell through the floor of my dad's car. Not a happy day that one.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

Has anyone done a study calculating the amount of CO2 released? That would be interesting.

bggamers Loc: georgia

Sounds like if there's a pile of poo I'd step over it loose my balance fall into it. Believe me I have often wondered if GOD needs a good laugh and on those day's I'm it. Once in a while I don't mind giving him a great HA HA once in a while.

bggamers Loc: georgia

Found an article from 2013 on live science by Robin wyle Univerity college london http://www.livescience .com stated (estimated) of the 150 active volcaneo's they have only studied 33 but they estimate they quietly shed upwards to a quarter of a billion tons of co2 every year thats the ones they'v studied it said the numbers could go upward when the study was done so I'm thinking we should keep this to our selves or obama will regulate the volcano farts like he did cow farts.Go figure guess he'd put a cork in it

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

Thankfully Obama is no longer in charge and at noon today the CC information on the WH website disappeared.

I have been reading an article about CO2 emission from the Yellowstone Caldera. It says annually the Caldera dumps about 44 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. That's about 10 times the output of a medium coal-fired power plant.

This article was talking about the fact that there was a study done recently that showed a dramatic surge in CO2 emission at the Caldera and that kicked off another study that recently revealed the existence of a much larger magma chamber directly below the magma chamber that they knew was there. This new magma chamber is approximately four and a half times bigger than the one they already knew about. Apparently there have been 40 seismic disturbances at the Caldera just in June alone of 2016 and they're still ongoing. This article was discussing the concern over the possibility of a coming event because they say that the increase in CO2 emission could be related to a fissure opening between the newer huge magma chamber and the smaller one on top, and they fear that this may show a weakening somewhere, increasing pressure that could result in an event. Of course it was looking at worst-case scenario in which the much of the country is covered in 10 centimeters of ash, crops die during the short-term, and we are thrust into a global cooling because the sun energy would be impeded. I'm sure that if any event happened it would not be of the supervolcanic order. At least I pray so. That would be catastrophic. 640,000 years ago Yellowstone Caldera exploded with eight thousand times the power of Mount Saint Helens. Not good.

It's something I plan to try to keep informed on. It took me by surprise because I had just finished reading another paper claiming that we are nowhere near any type of the event at Yellowstone in this century.