Yellowstone Blows Up. It’s The End Of The World.
Who would have guessed it? I mean, in today’s world, is it all that surprising? Not really. Yellowstone blew up. Of course it did. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, a rock … hmmm … it’s making the rounds of the interwebs that on July 23, 2024, a significant hydrothermal explosion occurred at Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone National Park.
You can check it out below.
https://x.com/JohnCremeansUSA/status/1815844229987590178
I mean the doomsayers have been saying Yellowstone is going to blow up for a long time, end of the world and all that. Apparently this mini explosion was something to behold, sending rocks up to 3 feet wide hundreds of feet into the air.
Following the explosion, Black Diamond Pool and Black Opal Pool have shown changes, with debris causing murkiness and occasional bursts of hot water. By July 24, both pools were overflowing, sending murky water into the Firehole River. The area around Biscuit Basin has been closed for the rest of the 2024 season for safety reasons.
But, unfortunately, it wasn’t a super volcano, too bad for Hollywood, but something else called a hydrothermal explosion.
A hydrothermal explosion occurs when water trapped in a hydrothermal system (such as those found in geysers or hot springs) rapidly heats up and transitions to steam, causing a violent release of pressure. This can happen when groundwater comes into contact with hot rock or magma, leading to a sudden and explosive conversion of water to steam.
“These are not volcanic eruptions, but rather sudden episodes of water flashing to steam underground. Small hydrothermal explosions happen almost annually someplace in Yellowstone National Park—like the 1989 explosion of Porkchop Geyser. Every few thousand years, large ones can also occur. The park is home to the largest-known hydrothermal explosion crater on Earth—Mary Bay, on the north side of Yellowstone Lake, is 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) across and formed about 13,000 years ago.” – USGS
What’s even crazier is to think that bigger ones could occur, 1.5 miles wide?! Now that would be fun to behold. Forget getting eaten by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone, how about getting blown up, having a rock fall from the sky, or getting scalded to death?
Luckily no one was hurt in this event, rather those who got to experience it, saw something that happens, on average, every 700 years in Yellowstone. Crazy.
Truly makes you wonder if those early explorers and Native Americans who inhabited those parts every experienced anything similar … they probably thought the world was actually ending!
“Imagine a great boiling cauldron, in which the fiery contents are constantly bubbling and spouting, sending forth huge columns of steam, with a noise like the sound of distant artillery. At times the seething mass boils over, and the molten lava, rushing down the sides, leaves a black and smoking track.” – Jim Bridger
It’s kinda nice to know that Yellowstone still has something of wildness and unexpectedness around it that hasn’t been tamed by man.
