Whats going on at yellowstone?

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YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO OBSERVATORY INFORMATION RELEASE Friday, January 2, 2009 19:30 MST (Saturday, January 3, 2009 02:30 UTC) YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO (CAVW#1205-01-) 44.43°N 110.67°W, Summit Elevation 9203 ft (2805 m) Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL Aviation Color Code: GREEN Yellowstone Lake Earthquake Swarm Update: 2 January 2008

Talk about being tight lipped.

[edit on 1/2/2009 by sad_eyed_lady]

reply to post by Lil Drummerboy


I wish they showed the #s like utah.edu shows the list of quakes

but I can't seem to find where they do - if they do.

well I'm out for dinner too - keep up the good fight - I'll be back to check in later
things always seem to go nuts late at night lately - just to keep us up

I can't believe
www.seis.utah.edu...
is only showing 14 more than this morning - they must have another url that's not for the public where they're putting everything.

does GEE have a list somewhere of all the quakes?




[edit on 1/2/2009 by trusername]

Originally posted by lightworker12
You guys do realize the chance of Yellowstone erupting during your lifetime is almost nil, right?

This topic will go on for years if you keep posting every little geologic change.

i was thinking earlier that if there was enough interest this thread "could" go on for years ... even thousands of years.

but due to what we know, or more accurately, "don't know" ... it's just as possible this thread might not be accessible tomorrow.

Just another spike up to 400 amp at LKWY. Not sure what that means on the R. scale.

GEE lighting up again.... a big one. Looking. Will update this post with more info.

Planning on being here for a few years watching spikes as indicated by a previous skeptical poster. =)

Originally posted by Lebowski achiever
Just another spike up to 400 amp at LKWY. Not sure what that means on the R. scale.

Are you still able to get the northern most sensors on gee? If so is it still vibrating up that way?

I noticed that on my LKWY and H17. Both at the same time and the LKWY is going again, only smaller on the north/south and east/west.

However this time I noticed that it did not go blank before the spikes occured, which is what mine has been doing. Is it a glitch that causes that or a glitch that it didn't happen this time?

Don't mean to sound too ignorant, but I'm just getting used to watching the GEE.

reply to post by sad_eyed_lady


They already confirmed there is a chance for a Hydrothermal Explosion to take place. I think that's quite relevant

Originally posted by Lebowski achiever
Just another spike up to 400 amp at LKWY. Not sure what that means on the R. scale.

Someone posted earlier this afternoon, which would be at least 10 or 12 pages back about figuring the microns to the richter scale. I didn't write it down, now I've forgotten it. Maybe someone remembers, or whomever posted it would repost it.

Originally posted by opal13
I noticed that on my LKWY and H17. Both at the same time and the LKWY is going again, only smaller on the north/south and east/west.

However this time I noticed that it did not go blank before the spikes occured, which is what mine has been doing. Is it a glitch that causes that or a glitch that it didn't happen this time?

Don't mean to sound too ignorant, but I'm just getting used to watching the GEE.

Its not the EQ's causing the line breaks its the feeds from the gee servers.No worries if ya just wait a sec or two it will catch up.

Some more points of view on the topic with some interesting thoughts on the depth/chimney theory.

scienceblogs.com...

So even if earthquakes are listed at, say, 0.2 or 13 or 37 km, that doesn't mean there is actually a "chimney" of seismic activity that penetrates the Yellowstone magma chamber or reaches up to the surface. According to USGS scientist Jacob Lowenstern, the most accurately located earthquakes so far have all been between 3 and 5 km depth.

Originally posted by sageturkey
RF - Got my brother onvolved who's heavily into electronics and he alerted me to the comedy in your screen name. Good one!

Heh! Ya I came up with it about 12 years ago when I signed up for a membership in a forum...a broadcast transmitter engineer's forum.

Originally posted by sageturkey
Hey, if I p2p'ed you my phone number, would you call me if your EAS goes off?

Check your u2u msg.

I also plan to post here in the forum if that EAS starts to buzzin. So far no alerts, no warnings, just regular NOAA traffic.

Folks please take note. If you have one, keep a weather band radio nearby, if not keep any standard radio close by tuned to the primary EAS station for your area. You can find that by searching for the primary EAS station for your city and state in any search engine, or by going to www.fcc.gov/EAS and then search by your state and city.

The primary EAS station is the first in the chain to pass along any EAS warnings. In case this thing gets crazy and wipes things out before I or anyone else can hit "post reply", that radio tuned to your primary EAS station is your best early warning you can get.

Lets all hope this thing will settle down so we can all breathe a little easier.



Cheers!!!!



[edit on 3-1-2009 by RFBurns]

Originally posted by Lebowski achiever
Just another spike up to 400 amp at LKWY. Not sure what that means on the R. scale.

400 micron/sec on GEE means a very approximated (approximated because I don't know the correction factor for this station) local magnitude of log10(0.4) = -0.39 . Local magnitude means that if the epicenter was the seismograph station, this would be the real EQ magnitude.

-0.39 magnitude for a station so close to the actual epicenter of quakes means that it was a very small one, only instrumentally felt.

By the way I can't seem to get GEE to work properly

[edit on 2009/1/2 by Shirakawa]

I added this to the other thread as well,
For those interested an Ash Fallout Map of the 600 mile radius for Yellowstone:

reply to post by xoxo stacie


Ice has the same mass as water although the volume of ice is greater so melting ice does not cause a water level to rise since it displaces enough water to support its weight while frozen.

So the only way melting ice would be a factor in the increase of water flow would be if ice on the shore was melting?

reply to post by Shirakawa


Thanks for the info. I will be seeing graphs in my sleep, I've been staring at them for so long. It is spiking again though so there will be some more activity tonight..

reply to post by RFBurns


Also EAS isn't setup to broadcast through satellite TV or radio like Sirius and Direct TV.

reply to post by MischeviousElf


Yes that 8 inches of rain would explain a rise. Here is a puzzle for us to ponder. What is the water and snow pack this year for the area? It must be good and warm too to generate greater water flow.

But I don't get it. Here is a link that lists the percent of average for area rivers this December. Almost all areas had less than normal snow/water equivalent. Special note in the list the upper Yellowstone River Basin at 79%. With less water / snow than average feeding the rivers upstream how could we be seeing a larger discharge in the lower rivers? This is strange. Must be warmer than average and all the snow is melting at a greater rate. I'll check the weather.

MT Snow Pack

Ps. Thanks Pantangele for importing the other chart.

Also on the USGS site there is this massive increase of precipitation, but when I run the historic data for 12/20 to 1/3 from wunderground.com there is no monsoon of 8 inches in the area.

I am really puzzled because the temperature held a high that has not broken above 30 degrees, so I would expect it to be snow. When and where did 8 inches of water fall? Could that Tantalus Creek chart be wrong? Is it a case of Provisional data subject to revision? Can someone else confirm 8 inches of rain?

Originally posted by budro
reply to post by xoxo stacie

 

Ice has the same mass as water although the volume of ice is greater so melting ice does not cause a water level to rise since it displaces enough water to support its weight while frozen.

So the only way melting ice would be a factor in the increase of water flow would be if ice on the shore was melting?

Yes thank you for that is why I was wondering if perhaps there was geothermal activity increasing in the lake or other areas of the park. My thought was perhaps if it was else where in the park we could simply be getting run off from that area into the spillway.

Originally posted by violet
reply to post by RFBurns

 

Also EAS isn't setup to broadcast through satellite TV or radio like Sirius and Direct TV.

Correct. Thats why I only mentioned a weather radio or standard AM/FM radio. However I should have mentioned that cable tv service is also required to have EAS equipment, and that is another good source for early warning.


Cheers!!!!