Whats going on at yellowstone?

I just ran the 60 day graph for USGS real time water data.

Please note the unusual volume increase in river flow from the lake, starting around 12/25. Pay particular attention to the total volume discharge and its movement as compared to the 79 year trend. They are moving in opposite directions.

Why would the water volume flowing out of Yellowstone Lake be increasing so much? Is this displacement or extreme melting of snow pack? Thoughts?

Try this chart:

USGS water flow

reply to post by Mushussu


Great thread!, Thanks for the input.....

I was just over at Rense sniffing around and decided to search "yellowstone"

www.google.com...

Most of these threads are dated 01'-03'

IS it safe to say that this current swarm is signifigantly greater than then?

Thanks

My blue lines disappeared. They are back, but started in the middle of the lines. Odd.

But where they came back on LKWY and 17 they are spiked.

[edit on 1/2/09 by opal13]

Originally posted by MoorfNZ

Originally posted by Lebowski achiever
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Keep trying. Reload if you have to. I had to have three goes before I could get it to work again. It is very intermittent.

Cheers, I'll keep trying.

Anyone seeing strange readings for H17 all of a sudden?

To answer my own question I see the reading looked to have changed due to an event (small) which changed the amp axis...

Originally posted by opal13
My blue lines disappeared. They are back, but started in the middle of the lines. Odd.

But where they came back on LKWY and 17 they are spiked.

[edit on 1/2/09 by opal13]

Ditto

reply to post by Pinktip


Yep I would say so as would a lot of other folks here too.
gotta go

Has this been posted yet? I have not seen it, and I have read, I think, the whole thread.

io9.com...

Although the earthquake swarm continues, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, the volcano alert level remains normal. And a slew of larger earthquakes have occurred throughout the western U.S., Alaska, Puerto Rico and even Pennsylvania in the past week without incident, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
In recent years, Yellowstone's caldera has been rising thanks to uplifting magma beneath it—leading to more cracks, hot springs and even more frequent eruptions of Steamboat Geysers. Paired with the earthquakes, such magma movement might presage an eruption—either big or small. Unfortunately, scientists can't really predict when the next such eruption will happen, and the range of possibilities is large: from later today to a million years from now.

How will we know if we should start worrying? The real warning signs will be rapid changes in the shape of the ground as well as volcanic gases leaking from the ground, neither of which have been sighted—yet.

GEE servers are down apparently

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Thanks,

Okay this is a weird one the east and west side of the lake are moving in unison with the east pushing harder; but it isnt moving north as before....

reply to post by MoorfNZ

Did again some digging and those spikes are kinda new.
And before the spikes there were 3 bigger one's.
For the webi viewers the 3 black ones around 01:15 utc

reply to post by Absum!


From US News and World Report Blog:



Above average water displacement in the lake

I hate to harp on but you should probably take a deep breath before looking at this.

waterdata.usgs.gov...

Go to the graph in the middle that measures discharge by cubic feet per second in the lake.

Statistics for January 2nd, based on four years of record, indicate that the mean displacement is 4.8 cfps. The highest previously recorded was 5.0 last year.

Guess that it is as I type this?

6.5 cfps.

Something to chew on.

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It would appear to me if water flow was increasing out of the lake that there could be a possibility the underside is bulging upward, pushing water outward to the southeast end.

reply to post by Lil Drummerboy


Bingo.

One after another the signs we were told to look for are happening.

Gases discharged... Smell of sulfur.
Bulging Caldera... Water discharge.
Changes to hydrothermic features of park... New hot springs.
Harmonic earthquakes... Check.

We were told nothing may happen in presence of these factors, but they seem to be piling up fast.

[edit on 2-1-2009 by pantangele]

Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
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It would appear to me if water flow was increasing out of the lake that there could be a possibility the underside is bulging upward, pushing water outward to the southeast end.

So, from the videos I have watched, along from the things that I have read, that means possibly more of a hydrothermal explosion?

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If " scared in Wyoming" is factual about his nose news and the water in the lake is increasing outward in flow, then wouldn't we have gas and uplift?

That deff makes sense as the movements although small seem to be contained to the lake its self. Where as earlier they where moving north no matter how small. Perhaps the opening from earlier is full and no longer able to drain off???

Man... I was looking forward to more of a "boom" ... hydrothermal explosion is nothing compared to a super volcano eruption.

Haha just kidding, this is good news. Lets just hope this is what happens.

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reply to post by pantangele


So, yeah, the 79-year median would indicate that an increase in water flowing away is not the norm.

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yep waters moving back up

waterdata.usgs.gov...