Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 685 Under the Volcano
Binns and Anderson are professionals in conversation, and they quickly calmed the excitement of Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, who was not so high in emotional intelligence, and then began to guide the questioning.

"Dr. Alvarez, we want to know how much impact it will have on the Federation once the Yellowstone volcano erupts..."

Although Ricardo Alvarez calmed down quite a bit, he was still a little excited. He asked without answering:

"I wonder if you know about the San Andreas Fault?"

Rose Anderson replied:
"You mean the San Andreas Fault in the Golden State?"

Alvarez gave an approving look.

"Forgot Miss Anderson, you are also a doctor, you should know something about the San Andreas Fault."

Anderson shook his head modestly and said:
"I'm not a major in geology, and I don't know much about it. Doctor, please tell us in detail..."

A simple sentence greatly increased Alvarez's favor. When he mentioned his major, the doctor couldn't help but said with a little joy:

"We all know that the earth's crust is not monolithic, but is made up of several huge solid rock blocks called tectonic plates. There are naturally formed structures such as cracks between the plates."

"The San Andreas fault is located at the junction of the North American plate and the Pacific plate. One of the two plates moves to the southwest and the other moves to the northwest. The flat fault boundary formed by shearing and sliding has existed for more than 2000 million years, and its length runs through the entire Golden State area, which is 6000 miles long, and the part that extends below the ground is about [-] meters."

"What scares me is that the San Andreas fault hasn't had a major earthquake in 250 years, and now the pressure on the plates on both sides of the San Andreas fault is close to bursting."

"In the past 300 years, many relevant scientists have proved through research that the pressure on the southern end of the San Andreas crustal fault zone has been continuously accumulating. Do you know what this means?"

Mike Binns said in a timely manner:
"What does it mean?"

Rose Anderson responded instead of Alvarez:

"It means that a major earthquake is likely to occur in this area around Los Angeles and San Diego!"

Ricardo Alvarez nodded:

"That's right, the energy released by the pressure accumulated over hundreds of years is enough to cause a major earthquake with an intensity of seven or more on the Richter scale."

The female doctor was a little puzzled and asked again:

"Then it's just the earthquake on the Jinzhou side. What's the connection with the Yellowstone volcano in the far north?"

Alvarez said:
"If it was a simple earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault being squeezed by the plate, it would at most be similar to the San Francisco earthquake, which may have caused more than 10 casualties and millions of people homeless. The consequences of such a disaster, but the modern human society already has a certain degree of disaster relief capabilities, at most it is a small-scale regional disaster!"

"In fact, in the past 500 to 150 years, a major earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault occurred about every [-] years. But if this time coincides with the Yellowstone volcano The super volcano has also erupted, which will not only cause a super volcano eruption in the north-central part of North America, causing all kinds of terrible disasters, but may also cause some underground movements to exert more pressure on San Andreas, which is [-] kilometers away. On this side of the fault, once an earthquake breaks out, it is conservatively estimated that the minimum intensity will be above [-] on the Richter scale, and it may be even higher!"

The words of this doctor of geology made Mike Binns and others all look serious and ugly.

The magnitude [-] earthquake alone is enough to cause people to worry and panic. Once what Alvarez said comes true, I am afraid that the entire Midwest of North America will fall into a huge natural disaster and become a hell on earth. , which is a result they do not want to see at all.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the conference room had become solemn and stiff, Mike Binns changed the subject and said:

"Dr. Alvarez, with the powerful scientific and technological power possessed by our Federation, there should be a way to weaken the intensity of some such catastrophes in advance. What needs to be confirmed now is how to prove the possibility of disasters. Doctor, your magical sense Can you tell us more about the situation?"

Ricardo Alvarez said confidently:
"Of course, but if you want to verify my mysterious sense, you still need to go to Yellowstone Park to let you see it with your own eyes!"

Mike Binns glanced at Anderson and immediately replied:

"No problem, we will arrange vehicles for Yellowstone Park..."

……

Just as some people were rushing towards Yellowstone Park, Xie Zihao and the group of seven from Zhongtu had already entered a narrow underground cave.As for the tour guide, it was left at a management site on the way when he came, so as not to ignore the other party when something happened.

Unlike ordinary volcanoes, super volcanoes do not have the kind of volcanic cones that people think of when they mention volcanoes, that is, unlike ordinary volcanoes, there is no obvious mountain with a deep pit on it, that is, a crater.

Such as the famous volcano Mount Fuji.

The whole of the super volcano is actually like a large plateau. Standing next to the super volcano, people can't see the raised peaks on the ground at all, but only an endless flat land.

Gao Ke said to everyone while walking:

"The magma chamber of the super volcano is buried deep in the ground, and the huge power prevents the super volcano from forming the volcanic cones and complete craters of common volcanoes, because they were all blown to pieces by the huge power during the initial volcanic eruption. So the eruption of a super volcano can only leave depressions like craters on the ground, which are called calderas or calderas."

"The current caldera of this super volcano group in Yellowstone Park is an oval with an area of ​​84 times 45 kilometers, which accounts for about one-third of the total area of ​​Yellowstone Park. The passage we entered should be located in the broken About ten kilometers inward from the periphery of the crater, if the direction of the passage in front does not deviate too much, and then go down a few kilometers, you should be able to touch the core area of ​​the Yellowstone volcano."

Gao Ke's words made everyone present feel nervous and excited, because no one had ever gone so deep down to approach a volcano and the magma chamber of a super volcanic community.

Dangerous as it is, it's also an experience worth bragging about.

Ordinary people would not have imagined that the underground part of Yellowstone Volcano, a super volcano, would have such a community of underground caves distributed under this natural park like a spider web.

These caves are not only distributed in a disorderly manner, but also have completely different sizes and widths. Some small caves can only be called underground cracks, which can only accommodate some small animals of the weasel family, while some large ones can allow seven people to walk side by side. There is still a lot of leeway.

If it weren't for Xie Zihao's super perception ability, it would be very difficult to find such a cave passage leading to the depths of the underground volcano.

And getting through them is harder than finding them.

(End of this chapter)