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For all you diehard believers in "man-made" climate change, could you be foolish in even considering other possibilities as to why the Earth's climate might be  changing? 

 

I will argue that the increased frequency of earthquakes and volcanos would provide far more evidence of why the Earth's climate is changing, than any "man-made" factors. Throw on top of this the possibility of the changes in the Earth's magnetic field and you could have a major cataclysmic event lurking in our future, let alone simple climate change.

 

For those who don't know, there are a large contingency of NASA and Ex-Military retiring in Arkansas. The rumors are that they are worried in a magnetic pole shift as this could cause flooding inland as far as 1000 ft above sea-level. Arkansas is 2000 ft above sea-level.

 

 

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A “crack in the Earth” really did open up in the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains  — but it’s not nearly as alarming as some of the reports on social media suggest.

Images of the crack, which County 10 says is about 10 miles south of the town of Ten Sleep, were first posted online by SNS Outfitters & Guides: SNS reports that “the gash” is about 750 yards long and 50 yards wide. 

 

While impressive, the crack is not a sign that the nearby Yellowstone caldera is about to erupt, nor is it “mysterious,” as many of the posts on Facebook and Twitter have suggested. 

Experts say it’s just normal geology at work.

SNS said an engineer came to inspect the formation and figure out the cause. 

“Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock,” the company wrote on Facebook. “Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement.”

One expert who hasn’t been at the scene, but saw the images, explained that the crack could be caused by a number of factors. 

“A number of things trigger them, moisture in the subsurface which causes weakness in soil or geology, and any process that would weaken the bedrock or unstabilize it somehow,” Wyoming Geological Survey’s manager of groundwater and geologic hazards and mapping, Seth Wittke, told the Powell Tribune.

The survey’s public information specialist Chamois Andersen added that “an early, wet spring and summer” may have also “had a lot to do with it.” 

“It is not uncommon to have slides like that,” she said.

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Natural Disaster: 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Montana, Raising Supervolcano Concerns

92ab3d90-bae2-11e6-9da6-3b7a932389dd_NEWRyan Bort,Newsweek

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Magnitude 5.8 earthquake reported in Montana
ABC News Videos

 

Yellowstone National Park, which covers parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, lies on top of a supervolcano that could effectively wipe out the United States if it were to explode. The last time it did, 640,000 years ago, it expelled 240 cubic miles (think about that) of rocky debris into the sky.

Early Thursday morning, residents of southern Montana feared the worst when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the region. Though its epicenter was only 230 miles from Yellowstone, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says the seismic activity was not irregular, and the supervolcano is not expected to erupt anytime soon.

Related: Yellowstone supervolcano hit by hundreds of earthquakes

 

"The location and focal mechanism solution of this earthquake are consistent with right-lateral faulting in association with faults of the Lewis and Clark line, a prominent zone of strike-slip, dip slip and oblique slip faulting trending east-southeast from northern Idaho to east of Helena, Montana, southeast of this earthquake," said the USGS.

Nevertheless, people were concerned.

 

 

 

The earthquake, which was the eighth largest ever recorded in Montana and largest in 34 years, comes just weeks after a flurry of smaller earthquakes hit the region. The swarm of activity began June 12, and by the end of the month nearly 900 earthquakes had been recorded near the Yellowstone supervolcano, along the western edge of the park.

 

Though the heightened seismic activity has stoked fears of a possible supervolcano eruption, Jacob Lowenstern of the USGS told Newsweek that it is not without precedent.

“The swarm in 2010 on the Madison Plateau lasted at least three weeks. In 1985, there was one that lasted several months,” he said. “Yellowstone has had dozens of these sorts of earthquake swarms in the last 150 years it's been visited. The last volcanic eruption within the caldera was 70,000 years ago. For magma to reach the surface, a new vent needs to be created, which requires a lot of intense geological activity.”

The USGS puts the odds of a volcanic eruption at 1 in 730,000. Even if an eruption were to occur, it would likely result in lava flow rather than a cataclysmic explosion. Though this would have an effect on Yellowstone, it would not bring about the end of the United States as we know it.

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Montana early Thursday morning may have knocked some dishes over and woke up a few residents, but the supervolcano made it through the night undisturbed.

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20 minutes ago, bostonangler said:
U.S.

Natural Disaster: 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Montana, Raising Supervolcano Concerns

92ab3d90-bae2-11e6-9da6-3b7a932389dd_NEWRyan Bort,Newsweek

Report issue

 
Magnitude 5.8 earthquake reported in Montana
ABC News Videos

 

Yellowstone National Park, which covers parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, lies on top of a supervolcano that could effectively wipe out the United States if it were to explode. The last time it did, 640,000 years ago, it expelled 240 cubic miles (think about that) of rocky debris into the sky.

Early Thursday morning, residents of southern Montana feared the worst when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the region. Though its epicenter was only 230 miles from Yellowstone, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says the seismic activity was not irregular, and the supervolcano is not expected to erupt anytime soon.

Related: Yellowstone supervolcano hit by hundreds of earthquakes

 

"The location and focal mechanism solution of this earthquake are consistent with right-lateral faulting in association with faults of the Lewis and Clark line, a prominent zone of strike-slip, dip slip and oblique slip faulting trending east-southeast from northern Idaho to east of Helena, Montana, southeast of this earthquake," said the USGS.

Nevertheless, people were concerned.

 

 

 

The earthquake, which was the eighth largest ever recorded in Montana and largest in 34 years, comes just weeks after a flurry of smaller earthquakes hit the region. The swarm of activity began June 12, and by the end of the month nearly 900 earthquakes had been recorded near the Yellowstone supervolcano, along the western edge of the park.

 

Though the heightened seismic activity has stoked fears of a possible supervolcano eruption, Jacob Lowenstern of the USGS told Newsweek that it is not without precedent.

“The swarm in 2010 on the Madison Plateau lasted at least three weeks. In 1985, there was one that lasted several months,” he said. “Yellowstone has had dozens of these sorts of earthquake swarms in the last 150 years it's been visited. The last volcanic eruption within the caldera was 70,000 years ago. For magma to reach the surface, a new vent needs to be created, which requires a lot of intense geological activity.”

The USGS puts the odds of a volcanic eruption at 1 in 730,000. Even if an eruption were to occur, it would likely result in lava flow rather than a cataclysmic explosion. Though this would have an effect on Yellowstone, it would not bring about the end of the United States as we know it.

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Montana early Thursday morning may have knocked some dishes over and woke up a few residents, but the supervolcano made it through the night undisturbed.

Woke me up at 12:30 last night - I'm about 35 miles south east of the epicenter.

 

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