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Yellowstone National Park's, Norris Geyser Basin is probably the key, most important area to watch. It is in the Norris Basin where impending changes - for better or worse - will be noticed first.

The Norris Geyser Basin is well-known for its land deformity, water table changes, excessive thermal variations including rising ground temperatures, and other instability factors. Norris Basin is probably the hottest area in Yellowstone National Park, and recent interest in this particular area has occurred because of new mud pots and temperature increases reaching nearly 200 degrees. Scientists and geologists continually monitor changes in earthquake activity, rising steam pressure, abnormal geyser activity, new steam vents and fumaroles that appear near the top of the rising dome - all of which might be indicative of an impending explosion.

According to the 2004 Yellowstone Geological Fact Sheet, Global Positioning System (GPS) stations have been stationed in various parts of the park including one in the Norris Geyser Basin. The GPS stations can "detect changes in elevation and horizontal shifts of 1 inch or less per year, helping scientists understand the processes that drive Yellowstone's active volcanic and earthquake systems."(1)

Yellowstone Lake (the second-most area of interest) is approximately 60 miles from Norris Junction. Between Norris Junction and Yellowstone Lake sits Old Faithful (the Upper Geyser Basin).

""We're watching a trend that shows a larger uplift sustained over several years. If we continue to see this accelerated uplift,

"Ledge geyser, the second-largest at Norris and dormant since 1998, erupting full-bore, sending a plume of steam about

100 feet in the air...The eruption coincided with other out-of-the-ordinary activity at Norris over the weekend, including the

eruption of other sporadic geysers and changes in the water at the surface. Henry Heasler, Yellowstone's lead geologist, said the

changes appear to be part of a "thermal disturbance" at Norris, an infrequent and often-sudden shift at the geyser basin that

usually comes on quickly and then fades away. Vixen geyser erupting; Pearl geyser's water has changed from clear to opalescent, and water elsewhere in the basin has turned murky."

Yellowstone National Park's, Norris Geyser Basin is probably the key, most important area to watch.

It is in the Norris Basin where impending changes - for better or worse - will be noticed first.

Urban Legends' 2003 Report on the geothermic and seismic activity in Yellowstone Park

"The idea is to force emergency responders to deal with multiple terrorist attacks

[Yellowstone County is in Montana (the city of Billings is in Yellowstone County).

Montana borders Wyoming/Yellowstone National Park, and NW sections of the park border Montana.

The disaster drill is in Yellowstone County, Montana (also Western Yellowstone), but

the drill is in preparedness for a disaster/terrorist attack arising within/near the Yellowstone National Park area.]

Why were most of the elk deaths only among the "healthy" female and calf population?

"...three elk were fed the plant at a research center. One collapsed and was unable to rise Sunday.

A second also started stumbling, and a third is expected to be similarly afflicted...."

"Anchorage, Alaska - Do you have goggles and a dust mask? How about a three-day supply

of food and water? With the recent rumblings coming from the Augustine Volcano near Homer,

"A restless volcano near Alaska's most populated region is being watched by scientists and officials,

who warned on Thursday of the risk of clouds of ash and a tsunami from a possible eruption."

"The most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century happened in Alaska at a volcano named Novarupta. Because

Novarupta was located so near the Arctic, it did some curious things to Earth's climate. Almost a century after the blast,

researchers are beginning to understand what happened." (NASA Science News for October 3, 2006)

Mount Veniaminof, about 500 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula,

Mount Veniaminof volcano is 8,223 feet high and located 300 miles SW of Kodiak. Since the beginning of 2005, Veniaminof has been sending up ash and experiencing greater seismic activity. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has raised the volcano's warning level from green to yellow, and as of January 10, 2005, the level has been raised to orange.

at Yellowstone National Park in 2002 has linked it all to seismic waves from a powerful

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