Bison running on road fuels speculation that Yellowstone volcano will erupt

[mick silver]

Bison running on road fuels speculation that Yellowstone volcano will erupt

Park tries to alleviate concerns in a story that has spun wildly out of control

April 04, 2014 by Pete Thomas (http://www.grindtv.com/author/pete-thomas/?rel=author)




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http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bisonyellowstone.jpegBison crowd the road in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Neal Herbert/Yellowstone National Park

What do the animals know? Can their behavior portend natural events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
That question remains debatable in the wake of a swift and seemingly urgent bison migration that was videotaped recently inside Yellowstone National Park.
What is known, however, is that people are quick to jump to conclusions, and that, thanks to social media and the simplicity with which people can steal the video footage of others, stories can spin wildly out of control.



The bison story is a case in point.In at least two versions of the same footage, the bison were “running for their lives” from the mountains onto a paved road that leads out of the park. The great beasts were frantically fleeing the park, bloggers cautioned, and possibly signaling an imminent eruption of the so-called super-volcano, a vast magma chamber on which part of Yellowstone sits.
http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bison2.jpeg.pngScreen grab from video

“They detect something vast and deadly,” survivalist/blogger Tom Pupshu wrote in a post for a YouTube video report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEH58QvFH0w) that he uploaded on March 23, several days after the first video footage of the buffalo stampede was posted. “The Yellowstone Supervolcano is the only thing there that would fit the bill. Watch the animals and watch them close, they will always give you a heads up before an event. Very strange, is the caldera about to blow?”
Stories have carried headlines such as this one, from the Epoch Times (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/3/): “Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Fleeing Park As ‘An Alert’?”
http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bison3.jpeg.pngBison gather on road; photo courtesy Yellowstone National Park

But here’s the twist. The original footage, uploaded on March 14 by Yellowstone Association sales associate Leo Leckie, was titled “Yellowstone Bison … On the Run!” (Video posted above. )
Leckie explained on his YouTube description that the herd was running from Mammoth Hot Springs deeper into the park, not fleeing the park. “If the herd matriarch gets the urge to run, she will… and the entire herd will run to keep up,” Leckie wrote.
This week he told the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-yellowstone-eruption-rumors-20140403,0,4794509.story), “Those bison were running for the sake of running. There was nothing chasing them. There was no mudslide. They were just running.”
But copies of his footage carried other descriptions. “Yellowstone Buffalo Running for Their Lives!” read one copy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_csBXWlUA4), which as of Friday had garnered more than 1 million views.



Further fueling speculation that the running bison were signaling a major event was a 4.8-magnitude earthquake (later downgraded to a 4.7) that shook the park last Sunday. It was the strongest quake to hit the area in more than 30 years.On Monday, the park, compelled to try to stifle rampant speculation, produced a “Rumor Control” video, featuring public affairs specialist Al Nash. (Video posted above.)
Nash explained that the earthquake produced no damage or injuries and was uncommon only in its strength. It might not even be linked to volcanic activity.
“We see between 1,000 and 3,000 earthquakes here a year,” Nash said. “It’s just part of the geologic situation that we find here in Yellowstone.”
Nash explained that bison, elk, and other animals will migrate out of the park to lower elevations each winter. This is nothing out of the ordinary. “When the snow melts off and things start to green up, those very same animals will walk right back into the park,” Nash said.
Of prospects of a super-volcano eruption, Nash said there have been no verifiable signs that an eruption will occur anytime soon. But that’s not to say there isn’t a lot of activity beneath the surface.
“Frankly,” Nash said, “We are just a few miles above some real hot magma. That magma serves as the heat that fuels the geysers and hot springs and fumaroles in the park. It’s that engine that allows for the unique things that we see here in Yellowstone. we have seen no signs that the Yellowstone volcano is about to erupt.”
If only the bison could talk. Then we might truly get to the bottom of all this.
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[Cebu_4_2]

Saw this the other day, problem is they are running into the park not out...lol

[old steel]

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam....

[ImaCannin]

I wish those bison would run to my house. I would have them for dinner.... They are extremely tasty!

[EE_]

U.S. Gov't Quietly Soliciting Other Countries To House Americans If Yellowstone Super-Volcano Erupts!
Friday, 04 April 2014 08:54

-(TRN)- The United States government believes the Yellowstone Super-Volcano WILL erupt within the next ten years and has been offering to pay foreign countries $10 Billion a year for ten years if they agree to house Americans on an emergency basis if Yellowstone erupts. Dr. Jean-Philippe Perrillat of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Grenoble, France confirms the magma build-up and ten year time-line!

According to a story published in "The Afrikaaner" newspaper in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) government in South Africa has received a request from the U.S. to be part of a U.S. disaster management plan where South Africa would be paid $ 10 billion a year (about R100 billion) for ten years. The plan would be for temporary housing for millions of Americans in South Africa, built if the Yellowstone super volcano in the U.S. erupts.

Countries that will participate in the plan include Brazil, Argentina and Australia. A spokesman for the South Africa Department of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Sipho Matwetwe, said South Africa "will not be part of the plan because there is a risk that millions of white Americans can be sent to our country in an emergency situation and we consider that a threat to black national culture and identity."

A Super Volcano is one hundred times as powerful as a regular volcano and would not just kill millions of people, but would wipe out an entire civilization. If Yellowstone erupts, the whole North American Continent would be destroyed and the earth may be immersed for a few years in a "volcanic winter."

The last known eruption of a super-volcano occurred apparently about 70,000 years ago along Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It caused a volcanic winter that lasted six to eight years, and an era of global effects that lasted a thousand years.

A recent scientific analysis of the molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park in the United States revealed that an eruption without any external influence possible.

Scientists previously believed that many eruptions of super-volcanoes are preceded first by an earthquake should the earth's crust to break open for magma to escape. But new research shows that it can occur spontaneously as a result of an increase in pressure.

Super volcanoes represent the second biggest threat to life on Earth, after a collision of the Earth with asteroids, and they were in the past responsible for mass extinctions of species on Earth, long-term climate change and shorter "volcanic winters" caused when volcanic ash averted sunlight.

U.S. scientists have identified South Africa as an area where people could survive in the volcanic winter Yellowstone would cause. Although the U.S. government does not want to cause panic among its citizens, they want a "contingency" if the worst does take place and Yellowstone erupts.

The volcano is currently continuously monitored by seismographs at 45 points and it is likely the U.S. would have a few weeks or days of warning to send have large numbers of its citizens abroad, especially to the southern hemisphere.

Yellowstone in the State of Wyoming erupted 600,000 years ago and more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash and lava spewed into the atmosphere - about 100 times more than the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in 1982, which caused a significant period of global cooling.

Although the South African ministries of foreign affairs and science and technology, was fully informed of the U.S. plan, together with the large amounts of money that would pay for temporary housing for Americans in the Karoo and the Kalahari to establish where they could survive, the Cabinet decided to reject the U.S. request.

The R100 billion would be from 2014 every year for ten years to pay South Africa, after which the plan would be reviewed.

It may take up to ten years for the magma chamber of the super volcano to build. According to Dr. Jean-Philippe Perrillat of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Grenoble, France, "is the difference in density between the molten magma in the caldera and the surrounding rock big enough for the magma from the chamber to increase to the surface. "

"The effect is the same as the extra buoyancy of a soccer ball filled with air under water, it rises to the surface because of the surrounding water" said dr. Perrillat. "If the magma volume is large enough, it should rise to the surface and explode like a champagne bottle that is uncorked."

According to Dr. Sipho Mathetwe, the South African government "sympathy for the American challenge with Yellowstone, but we have our own challenges in South Africa. There are 200 million white people in America, and if too many of them flee to South Africa, it is a big problem, even though there is enough housing and infrastructure available. It will destabilize the country and may even bring back apartheid. South Africa is not for sale. "

The U.S. ambassador in Pretoria was not available for comment.

SOURCE: Praag.co.za (South Afikan News)

[Twisted Titan]

It dosent make a difference where the SA gubbermint takes the money.

If worse comes to worse 2 things you can be certain of.

The ships that house america refugees will be proceeded buy Gun ships.

The americans on those ships wont be you and me but elite scumbuckets