Scientists Closely Monitoring YellowStone Park ... By King Caspian

Billings, Montana

Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640, 000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calaulated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has risen over 70 centimeters this century.

In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park Rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser Basin because of deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is an area that is 28 miles long by 7 miles wide that has buldged upward over 5 inches since 1996, and this year the ground temperature on that buldge has reached over 200 degrees (measured one inch below ground level).

There was no choice but to close off the entire area. Everything in this area is dying: The trees, flowers, grass and shrubs. A dead zone is developing and spreading outward. The animals are literally migrating out of the park.

Then during the last part of July one of the park geologists discovered a huge buldge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The buldge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake and the water temperature at the surface of the buldge has reached 88 degrees and is still rising.

Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake with very cold water temperatures. The lake is now closed to the public. It is filled with dead fish floating everywhere. The same is true with Yellowstone River and most of the other streams in the Park. Dead and dying fish are filling the water everywhere.

Many of the picnic areas in the park have been closed and people visiting the Park usually stay but a few hours before leaving since the stench of sulfur is so strong they literally can't stand the smell.

The irony of all this is the silence by the news media and our government. Very little information is available from Yellostone personnel or publications. What mainstream news-stories do appear underscore the likelihood of a massive volcanic eruption. Though geologists publicly admit Yellowstone is "overdue", they have beenquoted as stating another massive magma release may not occur for 100,00 or 2 million years. Others close to the story are convinced that a massive eruption is emminent. A source that has demonstrated first-hand knowledge of the park's history and recent geothermal events stated the following: "The American people are not being told that the explosion of this 'super volcanoe' could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within 600 miles is likely to die. The movement of magma has been detected just three tenths of a mile below the buldging surface of the ground in Yellowstone raising concerns that this super volcanoe may erupt soon."

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King Caspian

I live within the 600 mile "death zone"

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