On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=102507-1
>
> Yellowstone is rising. This might help explain why we were lucky
> enough to
> see a geyser at the Norris basin behave in an entirely new way when
> we were
> there last year. It had been a little bubbling thing for as long
> as there
> were records, but the afternoon we came, it shot off a huge
> eruption that
> lasted more than an hour.
>
> I worked at Old Faithful in 1981... but I can't say that I noticed
> that it's
> gotten higher. ;-)
>
> If it decides to erupt, I want to be far, far away. And west.
I was about to reply with a snarky comment about how the Discovery
Channel will no doubt produce a fear-mongering video about the dangers
of the Supervolcano in Yellowstone, but the Discovery Channel beat me to
it:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/supervolcano.html
In their defense, they do say "Though Yellowstone could erupt again
someday, there is no evidence that the caldera is readying for another
massive blast, says Smith. That outlook is shared by Jake Lowenstern,
the U.S. Geological Survey's lead geologist at the Yellowstone Volcano
Observatory."
Dave
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