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The Yellowstone Volcano Beast Arising
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This post isn't about the Great Caldera at Yellowstone, no it is about a Extinct Volcano in Russia.
The Volcano has been extinct so long, they didn't say the last time it was active.
[Image: udina-volcano.jpg?w=737&f=82fd03a122d0a3...a4f7c0c467] 
 Udina (left) is part of a volcano complex on Russia's NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY.
Quote:A volcano previously classified as "extinct" in Russia's far east has woken up, and experts are now warning it could produce an eruption similar to the one that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum almost 2,000 years ago.

The Bolshaya Udina volcano is a stratovolcano located at the center of the Klyuchevskaya volcano group on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It stands at around 10,000 feet in height and, until 2017 it was considered extinct, meaning it has not erupted in a long time and is unlikely to ever erupt again.

It is not known when Udina last erupted. However, scientists recently noticed continuing seismic activity beneath the mountain, potentially suggesting the "awakening" of the volcano complex, scientists wrote in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

Now what is interesting about this article is the fact, they are worried this volcano will erupt, why are they so worried?
Quote:They installed four seismic stations and monitored the complex for two months, over May and June last year.

Over this time, they recorded 559 events in the area around Udina.

Further analysis suggested the activity was forming an "elliptical cluster" and that seismic events were taking place at a depth of at least three miles. "These seismic properties may indicate the presence of magma intrusions with a high content of melts and fluids, which may justify changing the current status of this volcano from 'extinct' to 'active,'" they wrote.
Source

OK, so they had 559 seismic events (earthquakes?) over a two month period.
But we are told that even with The Caldera (Volcano) swelling in size.
Quote:Recent work and news

In May 2019, Steamboat geyser returned to its pattern of more frequent activity, with water eruptions occurring almost weekly, on May 3, 8, 13, 20, and 27. Field work by YVO scientists during the month involved the deployment of semipermanent GPS stations to 15 locations around Yellowstone National Park, as well as maintenance of the Norris temperature network—including the datalogger at Steamboat geyser, which had not been operating due to an equipment failure.

Seismicity

During May 2019, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, located 77 earthquakes in the Yellowstone National Park region. The largest event was a microearthquake of magnitude 2.8 located 17 miles west-northwest of West Yellowstone, MT, on May 6 at 7:04 PM MDT. The earthquake was not reported felt.

Yellowstone earthquake activity remains at background levels.
Source
We have nothing to worry about, BUT, they are worried about an Old Extinct Volcano?

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RE: The Yellowstone Volcano Beast Arising - by Wallfire - 08-21-2018, 12:34 PM
RE: The Yellowstone Volcano Beast Arising - by Wallfire - 08-25-2018, 08:20 PM
RE: The Yellowstone Volcano Beast Arising - by guohua - 06-06-2019, 09:19 PM

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