Whats going on at yellowstone?

reply to post by questioningall


What exactly are you supposed to be "blankin'" about here...looks ok to me

Originally posted by Hx3_1963
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What exactly are you supposed to be "blankin'" about here...looks ok to me

i just saw the pics from 2001 and they look normal to me ....

Originally posted by northeaster
This image is from June 2001;


ava.jpl.nasa.gov...

from this page:

ava.jpl.nasa.gov...

Just checking in real quickly here.

Your above sites, The first one I checked had a lot of green, right? and the second more grey/ brown south of lake, right?
When I went back to check the first one again it was the same as the second.
The green one is gone- at least for me
Am I wrong?

I think what they are trying to point out is that the image from December of 2008 is very pink, where the earlier ones are green. I'm not sure what's up with that image, it looks like it's been colorized for some purpose.

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I was looking at the satellite image from Dec 2008 from Glovis - a little different than in 2001. I was hoping someone would follow the link and instructions I posted on the previous page and tell me what's up with this picture. Trying to figure out how to post the image here but it's huge - will see what I can do with photo bucket but someone more adept may beat me to it with any luck.

reply to post by quakewatcher

I notice things like that with space/planetary pic's...they use different color filters to enhance similar features that tend to blend together...

Hi All,

I have been following this thread intently since switching over from the Yellowstone Evacuation thread, and I have a question.

Does any find it unusual or have any idea of the significance of the fact that all four major earthquake areas of the US are showing activity lately? It's a no brainer that Alaska and California are popping (they always do), but it seems unusual that Yellowstone and New Madrid are also seeing activity, at the same time. New Madrid is not a highly active area, and I am not sure of it being active at the same time as the three others. I am just a lowly armchair observer, but it surely seems that an interconnected or relational theory is not far-fetched. Someone mentioned a few posts ago "ringing" and recent worldwide activity. Would this US activity support this? If this has already been discussed, sorry. Curiosity is overwhelming me right now ever since I saw this pattern early this week.

reply to post by Hx3_1963


I believe it was reported earlier in the thread a few dozen pages back that the constant pulse at LKWY is sourced to a compressor for the air quality monitoring equipment charging a HP tank.

Check these images of Yellowstone lake.
The first one is from 2000. The second is from 2001. in the 2001 pic, doesn't that look like a crack opened in the bottom of the lake?

I did brighten and up the contrast via Photoshop so the bottom of the lake was more visable.

2000 Image of YSL
Sat Image from 2000

2001 Image of YSL
Sat Image from 2001

You will notice the 2001 image shows upward movement of land in the lake--far north east area.. (Where some of the earlier swarms took place)

reply to post by Pharyax


I wouldn't read to much into those pic's for comparision...they look terrible...different lighting/contrast/resolution/grey scale/angle...
Plus they're years old concerning recent activitys


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Wonder if that prior Theory about the Pacific Plate spinnin' has any leg's to stand on...couple of South America Eq's now...watch for more NW Pacific/alaska/Indo action?

and Soda Butte looks to be showin' some ripples/ringin' from activity

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This is from 2005, the evening Discovery aired the programme on Yelowstone. The excerpts I'm using answer a few of the questions and/or comments posed in this thread.

Transcript from Live Chat of April 10, 2005

Chat with volcanologist Jake Lowenstern of the U.S. Geological Survey, scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, and Hank Heasler, National Park Service geologist stationed at Yellowstone.

What would be some of the signs of a problem at Yellowstone as far as a volcano goes?

Jake: Yellowstone is a caldera, and any active caldera system has constant geological activity. Many calderas around the world display the kinds of activities that you don't expect at small cone volcanoes. Before an eruption, we typically expect earthquakes, lots of ground movement, and explosions of steam. At Yellowstone and other calderas, these sorts of events are commonplace, but they still don't erupt. So we expect far more extreme kinds of earthquakes, ground uplift, and explosions that currently is the norm at Yellowstone and many other calderas.

Hank: The precursors to an eruption will also be in the same area, so the things that Jake just talked about that we do have in Yellowstone — hot ground at Norris and uplifts near Norris — are not indicators of an eruption. All those things need to occur in the same area, and those we have not seen during monitoring history of Yellowstone. So as Jake said, the calderas like Yellowstone have those events and we have them in Yellowstone, but they aren't in the same area, and thus we're not concerned with an imminent eruption.

Does the U.S. have contingency plans for a Category 8 eruption?

Jake: Neither of us is a civil defense expert, or is privy to the plans of those sorts of organizations. It's possible they do, but our job is to monitor the volcano, and that keeps us very busy!

What are the boundaries of the volcano rim?

Jake: Most people define the volcano as the Yellowstone caldera. It's an area about 50 by 30 miles. There are lava flows that have erupted outside this area, so the region of volcanism is larger than the caldera itself.

Hank: The caldera is the central portion of the volcano that collapsed or subsided after the hundreds of cubic miles of magma was erupted.

If something was detected, could explosives or a nuclear weapon be used to open up the ground and relive the pressure without an eruption?

Hank: From a geophysical point of view, there is no way to relieve the pressure associated with a volcanic eruption. The pressures and temperatures are so large that anything we can do as humans would be insignificant to the natural geologic event.

Discovery Channel

Something just went bump near YLA.

Kinda longish maybe ringing?

Around 20:12

edited: yeah, had to be a teleseism. From Columbia, I guess?

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Originally posted by Hx3_1963
reply to post by questioningall

 

What exactly are you supposed to be "blankin'" about here...looks ok to me

You didn't go to the right place, look at Dec. 08 - it is completely red around the whole lake and mountains.

reply to post by quakewatcher


Looks like YTP, YFT, YSB & MCID show it at the end of 13:00 scribe


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Also some interesting things happening near TA.G17A (which is near the lake, but I don't see it on LKWY at least not in GEE) also showing up at horse butte.

20:35. It is interesting, how Yellowstone seems to generally bump around a lot after action elsewhere.

reply to post by Anonymous ATS


I've mentioned that from time to time, increased activity around there...think I "guessed" something about a M2.5~M3 by Valentines Day...at the current rate of activity I might have some legs with that


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reply to post by quakewatcher


With a big 'ol jiggley blob of magma going down/surrounding hundreds of miles under there, I can see how that would work

reply to post by startx.jeff

looks a touch different than before .. but that probably doesn't mean much, changed their sampling scheme perhaps ....


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The last few "pulses" at LKWY can definitely be seen at YPK.

A little bit at YLA and YMP. I'm still not convinced they are anything, just telling you what to look for.