{"id":9629,"date":"2019-02-14T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T07:53:13","slug":"magma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/14\/magma\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/1086097\/yellowstone-volcano-fears-scientists-monitoring-rising-magma-spt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Express<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Yellowstone volcano: How scientists \u2018intensely monitor\u2019 rising column of HOT\u00a0MAGMA<\/h1>\n<h3>THE\u00a0YELLOWSTONE volcano has been\u00a0&#8220;intensely monitored&#8221;\u00a0by\u00a0a team of scientists and volcanologists\u00a0concerned\u00a0by a 400-mile-long plume of hot magma that is rising beneath the surface of the Earth.<\/h3>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/search?s=Callum%20Hoare&amp;b=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALLUM HOARE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NZSe1UMVjk\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/yellowstone-volcano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yellowstone volcano<\/a>\u00a0has erupted three times in history \u2013 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago.\u00a0Scientists have previously revealed\u00a0that,\u00a0should an earthquake occur, it could take less than two weeks before a catastrophic reaction event with the potential to wipe out three-quarters of the US is triggered. Now, it is the job of geologists to \u201cintensely monitor\u201d a large area of molten rock directly below the surface of the supervolcano, it was revealed in a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can reconstruct a 3D picture like an MRI scan by recording thousands of earthquakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary then reveals how the\u00a0mapping system of more than 150 seismometers has identified a 400-mile-long magma plume rising from the Earth\u2019s core.<\/p>\n<p>Should this reach the surface, there could be catastrophic effects.<\/p>\n<p>The last eruption of Yellowstone produced around 2,500 times more volcanic material than the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/1086097\/yellowstone-volcano-fears-scientists-monitoring-rising-magma-spt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Express<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Express Yellowstone volcano: How scientists \u2018intensely monitor\u2019 rising column of HOT\u00a0MAGMA THE\u00a0YELLOWSTONE volcano has been\u00a0&#8220;intensely monitored&#8221;\u00a0by\u00a0a team of scientists and volcanologists\u00a0concerned\u00a0by a 400-mile-long plume of hot magma that is rising beneath the surface of the Earth. By CALLUM HOARE \ufeff The\u00a0Yellowstone volcano\u00a0has erupted three times in history \u2013 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}