Yellowstone Animals Fleeing Park 'Raises Fears Supervolcano Set to Erupt'

by David Braybrooke

Posted: 10 years ago 17 replies

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Videos showing animals fleeing America's Yellowstone National Park has prompted concerns the supervolcano beneath is about to erupt.

Footage appears to show bison and other animals in an exodus from the park causing a number of bloggers to speculate this could mean the volcano is about to explode, The Epoch Times reports.

The authors say that an earthquake that hit the area on 30 March appeared to have sent the animals scurrying for safety, and that this is could spell disaster for the volcano, which last erupted 640,000 years ago.

Yellowstone Animals Fleeing Park 'Raises Fears Supervolcano Set to Erupt'

Another more rational explanation:

The video shows a decent number of animals in row cantering down the (correct) side of the road. How does he know what they were running from? “Running for their lives” is a bit of an exaggeration. In fact, they run like this rather frequently. Maybe they are running from hunters who illegally shot some earlier in March, or wolves, or bear who are emerging from hibernation. It does look weird but they didn’t look panicked. What about other animals? I don’t see elk and bear running. Or rabbits. Are birds leaving? No mass exodus noted. That would be something that would be more widely reported. The Yellowstone NPS page shows no panic, no drama, no earthquakes, no eruptions imminent. That silence is known as a “news blackout” to the conspiracy-minded. To us, it’s known as “nothing doing.” Other ideas for the manufactured drama are that it’s related to the solar flare eruption or Jesus Christ’s imminent arrival.

Are animals fleeing Yellowstone because of coming catastrophe? No.

Why are the animals fleeing Yellowstone? Your opinion?

HeySal 10 years ago

Oh not again. I get so sick of explaining why if Yellowstone erupts this time it will most likely just be lava streams and not some epic explosion that kills half or more of life on earth. Sigh. Just because it's a super volcano doesn't mean each eruption is a major one, just like every quake on a fault or plate boundary isn't the big one.

These buffalo are not fenced in. They come and go as they please and just as any other browsing animal (means grazing, not googling, lol), they run around a little bit. There was talk of them leaving the park years back, but obviously they went back if there's pics of them leaving again, huh? Once they graze an area they will return to one that is regrown. That's how a natural ecosystem works. The only reason our cows graze an area into destruction is that they are fenced.

Well - either that or they are just sick of how idiotic the tourists are.

Official danger level of Yellowstone presently: Green.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HeySal
  
  Official danger level of Yellowstone presently: Green.
  
  Greenstone, on the other hand, reportedly has a touch of jaundice, and may shortly be turning yellow.
  
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Kurt 10 years ago

If the super volacano is ready to blow, the bison better run a lot faster and a lot farther.
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- Kay King 10 years ago
  
  Do bison run much faster than that? I don't know.
  
  One species - a little over 2 dozen of them - doesn't make an exodus to me.
  
  I disagree, though, with sites that say animals sensing change or danger are only anecdotal stories. I don't know if it's atmospheric pressure or what - but I've seen animals get nervous and restless before a tornado, a hurricane, etc.
  
  If I saw several species running away from a certain direction - and clouds of birds leaving, too....I'd go with them
  
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  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  If I saw several species running away from a certain direction - and clouds of birds leaving, too....I'd go with them
  
  ... and I'd be right there behind you :p
  
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  msdobe 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  If I saw several species running away from a certain direction - and clouds of birds leaving, too....I'd go with them
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  ... and I'd be right there behind you :p
  
  I'd be ahead of you!
  
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- HeySal 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kurt
  
  If the super volacano is ready to blow, the bison better run alot faster and alot farther.
  
  Serious, Right?
  
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HeySal 10 years ago

There are 5 cauldra in the Yellowstone supercauldra. 2 are completely dead - no liquid magma at all and 2 are "active" to a level they might erupt sometime. However....................the history of the major explosion is what is being used to scare people. The two "active" or "live" cauldra - only have between 10 and 30% molten magma - the rest is crystalline. If it does decide to erupt sometime, we aren't going to get the end of the world catastrophe that fear mongers are trying to sell you.
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mydream247 10 years ago

Oh no not Y2K again, guess it's time to break out my Yellowstone survival kit...
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barbling 10 years ago

Or watch 2012....

2012 - Yellowstone explodes [HD] - YouTube
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HN Banned 10 years ago

It's interesting that these there posted the same time this thread was started.

South Africa Rejects United States Offer of $10 Billion A Year From 2014 To House Yellowstone Refugees | Outrageous Minds

United States Silently Prepares For Yellowstone To Go ‘BOOM,’ 10 Year Timeline | Planet Infowars

I wish US officials were reading WF. They would know that there's no need to worry and waste 10 billion a year on finding a refuge
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ronrule 10 years ago

Why would we be talking to South Africa? Mexico seems like a more convenient (and negotiable) solution, safely out of the kill zone.
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- Kay King 10 years ago
  
  I wish US officials were reading WF.
  
  I wish some here would read better online materials...or be able to tell a spoof from reality.
  
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- Kurt 10 years ago
  
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  Why would we be talking to South Africa? Mexico seems like a more convenient (and negotiable) solution, safely out of the kill zone.
  
  This chart is for the blast area and only shows the areas where people would die "instantly" or very quickly. In many other areas it may take a few days or weeks until the volcanic "cloud" passes over and people would be inhaling small shards of volcanic glass, which is like breathing thousands of tiny razor blades and their lungs would be shreaded to bits. Others would die from being buried under 10+ feet of volcanic ash. Roofs will collapse from the weight of the ash, which is much heavier than snow.
  
  Then, you have the "nuclear winter" which would last for years. The people that survived the blast and the volcanic ash will die slower deaths due to starvation caused by not being able to grow crops.
  
  If I remember the facts correctly, the last time Yellowstone erupted, very few humans survived and most of them were in Southern Africa.
  
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HeySal 10 years ago

US Officials aren't the ones predicting a major explosion. Yellowstone acts like it's going to erupt sometimes. There's one hella lot of scientific study going on there -- and those scientists are saying maybe an eruption some time, but nothing major - if it explodes during our lifetime at all. I would think that if anyone listens to anyone, it should be the scientists that are actually RIGHT THERE monitoring the caldera.

When I first started suspecting warming was a political scam - I solidified my idea of the IPPC being nothing but political pandering because they were saying the Himalaya glaciers were in trouble. The scientists right ON the glacier said there was nothing wrong up there. The US planes that flew into Russia to consult with Russia on it got frozen and couldn't take back off. They got laughed out of the country. Then there's the polar bears........... There are a few non-profits that want you to send them mega contributions to save them. The scientists monitoring them say of the 19 "groups" two were having a few problems but the others were all fine and dandy.

People that want money will tell you about anything to get it. There is not going to be a major event at Yellowstone. Maybe a minor one. We've seen St Helen's erupt and it wasn't good or fun - but that's more of what you are looking at for a max event if there is one at Yellowstone.

But go back to the site you saw that "warning" on and buy an ebook or preparedness kit if it makes you feel better.
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- HN Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HeySal
  
  I would think that if anyone listens to anyone, it should be the scientists that are actually RIGHT THERE monitoring the caldera.
  
  I would think that the first question that anyone should ask is, whether or not they would tell the public if it was about to explode? You can break this down and ask why would they hide it (avoid panic?), what's the reason to tell if you can't run from it anyway?
  
  If the answer to the first question is "NO", then any further questions are futile, no matter who you ask or listen to.
  
  But the news do sound fishy. The idea that the owners of the country care about its citizens. Really? Also, how are they going to pay? With fake gold bars filled with tungsten? Or just print some more paper money? What good would that paper be?
  
  Also it's not the animals people should be watching. When the owners of the country start to flee, that's when something is about to happen.
  
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