So maybe another geyser erupting at Yellowstone is no big deal. However, coming on top of a massive increase in Earthquake activity, heating up of surface rivers and lakes, and new ways of measuring the monstrous lava pool sitting just below the surface like a giant time bomb ready to erupt, it is getting attention.
People are on edge, while conspiracy dwellers are ready to burst in anxiety, as the dreaded Yellowstone super-volcano shakes, rattles, and rolls. If the supervolcano should erupt, and the last time was 640,000 years ago, it would cause worldwide damage.
However, Melchizedek said there would be a substantial increase in seismic activity including geyser eruptions, earthquakes, and even superheated rivers and lakes. While this significant change in behavior in one of the world's most dangerous natural parks will strike fear in the hearts of doomsday advocates, this will not trigger the supervolcano eruption.
We should consider it a wakeup call to remind us to stop damaging Mother Earth, one of God's precious creations, and find harmony and a state of grace with the Earth. All of God's creations are special to him and should be to us.
Here is what the news media had to say about the latest Yellowstone activity.
(Reuters) - The world's largest active geyser has erupted
three times in the past six weeks at Yellowstone National Park, including once
this week, in a pattern that is unusual but not at all indicative of a more
destructive volcanic eruption brewing beneath Wyoming, geologists said on
Saturday.
Steamboat Geyser, which can shoot water as high as 300
feet (91 meters) into the air, erupted on March 15, April 19 and on Friday. The
last time it erupted three times in a year was in 2003, the U.S. Geological
Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory said.
The last time it erupted prior to March was more than
three years ago in September 2014.
"There is nothing to indicate that any sort of
volcanic eruption is imminent," Michael Poland, the scientist in charge
for the observatory, said in an email.
This year's eruptions have been smaller than a usual Steamboat
eruption, but the two in April were about 10 times larger than an eruption at
the park's famed Old Faithful Geyser in terms on the amount of water
discharged, he said.
Geologists have not pinpointed a reason for the latest
series of eruptions, but say they could indicate a thermal disturbance in the
geyser basin, or that Steamboat may be having smaller eruptions instead of one
large.
Since most geysers do not erupt on a regular schedule,
"it might just reflect the randomness of geysers," Poland said.
Only Waimangu Geyser in New Zealand has rocketed to
greater heights than Steamboat, but not for more than 100 years, the U.S.
National Park Service said.
Yellowstone sits atop a volcano that created a vast
crater. Its plateau hosts the world's most diverse and expansive continental
hydrothermal systems, including the multicolored springs, mudpots and geysers
for which the park is known.
While the Steamboat eruptions are unusual, what would be
far more worrying would be the water in the hydrothermal systems drying up,
which could indicate that the super hot magma deep below was making its way to
the surface.
"Yellowstone hasn't had a volcanic eruption for
70,000 years! Geysers erupt all the time," said Jake Lowenstern, a
USGS research geologist who specializes in volcanoes.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Daniel Wallis
and XX)
Yellowstone geyser erupts for 3rd time in
6 weeks
- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.
— Apr 27, 2018, 6:50 PM ET
Yellowstone National Park geologists have reported
the third eruption from the world's largest active geyser in the past six
weeks.
The National Park Service says a park visitor reported
seeing a rare eruption of Steamboat Geyser on Friday.
Park geologists compared the report with seismic activity and the discharge of water and
concluded the eruption probably started at 6:30 a.m.
The geyser also erupted on March 15 and April 19.
All three eruptions were smaller than the last major
eruption that occurred on Sept. 3, 2014.
