(April 9, 2014 at 5:24 am)Phatt Matt s Wrote: Someone told me that all the animals were leaving yellowstone and that is evidence that it may erupt soon. People say A lot of things
That is a hoax. The video that was used as evidence of animals leaving Yellowstone actually showed them ENTERING Yellowstone. They migrate every spring into the park in search of food.
As for whether or not Yellowstone will erupt in our lifetime, I doubt it. There is a big difference between the volume of lava that is in a magma chamber and the volume in that chamber that is eruptible. Yellowstone has a huge magma chamber, but the bulk of it doesn't appear to be eruptible. So at present, if an eruption were to occur there, it would likely be small to modest in size (no larger than Mt. St. Helens, at worst.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
