Snowpack, volcano, and earthquake news

Guiness world record broken

Late morning on February 16, 2023, George McKinnon of Rock Giants magazine cataloged a 279 mile line of site view, with photos from the snow covered top of Wheeler peak at 13,065 feet, west southwest to the peak of Midway mountain in California at 13,665 feet. www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/wheeler-peak-nv

FYI, The Guiness line of site record is 275 miles.

RGM News, September 2024

Earthquake followeed by volcano in Russia

On August 17, 2024, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Russia's Kamchatca peninsula was followed by an eruption of the 11,000 foot Shiveluch volcano, also on the peninsula.

Shooting ashes more than 3 miles in the air, noone was injured however aircraft have been warned away from the area.

RGM News - August 2024

Is Yellowstone getting ready to blow?

On July 23, 2024 a volcanic vent located about eight miles from the primary caldera at Yellowstone exploded. RGM News reporters were at Yellowstone just two days before the incident, witnessed large plumes of steam coming from the ground near Biscuit Basin.

Photos were not taken however, our photo journalists were there to shoot mountains. And steam coming from the ground is not unusual in Yellowstone park.

Similarly, the main caldera of the 1,500 year old Soda Lakes volcano in Fallon, Nevada has a dry volcanic vent about 6 miles away called Rattlesnake hill.
When the Rattlesnake vent exploded, it sent basalt rocks the size of basketballs and larger flying through the air just like the explosion at Biscuit Basin.

Could this be a prelude to something bigger at Yellowstone?

RGM News - July 2024 - special edition

Russia's Siberia is dry as a bone

A low snowpack on the Cherskiy mountain range and peak Pobeda in northeast Siberia, over the last few years has put the region into a severe drought.

The permafrost is melting from the lack of water and mild temperatures as well.

Mostly harmful to wildlife, this drought will make diamond mining far more treacherous at the Batagaika meteor crater and surrounding open pit mines.

RGM News - July 2024

Severe life-threatening drought heading to China

Two years declining snow pack in the Himalayas threatens lives in all of China this summer.

And since the mega drought of 2022, the continued lack of runoff has drained China's primary water supply, the Yangtze river, to a mear trickle.

Water is more valuable now than gold in this politically locked country.

RGM News, June 2024

Rivers are ready to overflow their banks in the western contiguous United States

After two years of record high snow packs, lake Mead, Yellowstone lake, the American, Carson, and Truckee rivers will work their will on surrounding terrain.

And while public works departments will be busy, water sports will be in full gear this summer.

RGM News, May 2024

14 years of declining snowpack in South America, and the Amazon river, at its lowest in centuries

Winter is just getting started down there, perhaps the winter North America just had will travel south across the equator this season to South America.

RGM News, April 2024