Whats going on at yellowstone?

Huh 3 quick hits just south of that M4.5 from weekend SoCal...between that and all activity up at the geysers...kinda crazy & a little hit at parkfield...

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Columbia had a quake roughly 5 (or so) min before that blobble.
MAP 4.6 2009/01/13 19:47:53 5.753 -76.239 91.0 COLOMBIA

External to the park.


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Yeah that's pretty much what we were in agreement about most of the YS seismos read it at the end of the 13:00 scribe...ringing...

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I wonder if all this recent activity is driving them crazy at YS? Bad enough trying to sort out all the activity up there let alone all the "Ringing" and wind and whatnots...someone send up a gross of toupees. Those Tech's will probley need 'em after all this...between yankin' it out & turnin' it Grey.

hey, look at this site and old faithful in real time

www.nps.gov...

a bunch of bison are around it right now. 4:26 pm est.

I was wondering about the bison, so seeing them there, makes me feel better. I don't think they would stay around there, if there was a huge problem.

More micro quaking, 21:21 at YPK. Registering all over the park (but small.)

Then something at the lake at 21:26, also visible at YLT.

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Yes it is all connected, along with the turning of the Pacific plate
www.globalcmt.org...
the beach ball icons show you which direction the EQ's are taking.
So just follow the Bouncing/Rotating Ball

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I don't know about all you but USGS for all it's glory just ain't all that as far as the big picture...here's some other links to world wide quake activity...just so you can see what's "ringing" when it's not apparent from their limited reports.

www.emsc-csem.org...

earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...

quake.usgs.gov...

quake.usgs.gov...

www.aeic.alaska.edu...


RSOE shows 3 Eq's around Indo area @04:50 EST...hhhmmm

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I'd buy the argument that the "pulses" at LKWY were just from a compressor if they showed pretty much the same strength all the time, but they didn't. They started off weak, built up as stronger signals over a period of time (days), then faded again and were replaced by more "seismic" type activity. Each time. And that has happened in at least three "cycles", as I've reported and referenced here on the thread. This has been going on since at least late July and frankly it's not a compressor, in my humble opinion.

If it's mechanical then whatever it is, has to be something that gradually increases in strength over times, then fades again.

It seems like the pulses have started again (as has been noted a couple pages back by other posters). I wouldn't be surprised to see them increase in strength during the next two days or so. If they do, it's exactly what has happened before.

Even if someone argues that it's a movable device that is causing these pulses, then it's being moved in the same manner each time. Hard to imagine what it would be, especially as on previous occasions these pulses have gone on round the clock, slowly increasing in strength and with a decreasing interval. That's not the way a compressor would operate.

Regards,

Mike

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Take a look at YPK. Over the past few hours the activity there seems to align with the little pulses on LKWY. (also, they don't have that very even look that the "pulses" did a week ago, that made them look man made.)

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Snow plow maybe?
I dunno, I'm guessing as much as anyone else.
M.

Somehow I notice/agree with the "pulse" Theory...it did start out weak and was getting stronger from earlier today...+ heres a link with "supposedly" all reported Quakes from YS from 03-10-08 to last 4 reported on 01-12-09...

www.seis.utah.edu...

Might be of some use for some graph types to plot for us

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If you lay the two pictures one on top of the other and reduce the transparency of the upper layer it looks pretty clear that the features are the same.

As was pointed out the contrast etc of the two is so different that it makes a comparison difficult, but I am certain there is no change there.

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Here's one from the beginning of the first swarm to the 8th:

volcanoes.usgs.gov...

Could just add in the rest rather than reinventing the wheel.

Edited to add: Spike at LKWY/YLA 22:11:39 UTC

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I'm starting to notice a drift/trend going back up western Cali into Nevada...wonder if that will take a reverse course to the SW drift through Utah to SoCal that setoff that M4.5 the other day...

About the satellite pictures, Hx3_1963 is correct they use different wavelengths, such as IR. This is from NASA; " This is the pseudocolor style, pansharpened, using both infrared and visual bands." Here is the site that came from it lets you load different satellite views into Google Earth just click on what you want to look at and open it with Google Earth.
wms.jpl.nasa.gov...

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Re-Invent the Wheel...CLASSIC...gotta keep that in my repitoure'...but, it was more for a "Pre Swarm" look at trends...to see if there was somekind of pattern that lead up to the "swarm" but good lookin' out mang!

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Ok so they figure we're looking and decide to use the Hot Magma Red filter just for the lake shot in late December 2008?

mbmgquake.mtech.edu...

reveals 3.4 EQ at Yellowstone on 09/01/09 at 18:17:31 UTC at 44.68N 110.25W

It says this is 17.7 km NE of Yellowstone Lake.

If you go to

www.seis.utah.edu...

and check out the webicorders for that date, all show action between 10 am and 12:30 pm that day. Note that there is no data for LKWY.

The USGS reported on Jan. 10th the following:

"A currently modest swarm of earthquakes began in the northeast corner of the Yellowstone Caldera, about 10 miles (16 km) NNE of the north end of the Yellowstone Lake swarm that was active in late December and early January. As of 1930 MST, 10 earthquakes had been located by the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the largest with M= 3.3 and two other events with
M >2.0. Located depths are between 2 and 4 km."

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Not because we're lookin' as per say but probley because of the increased activity...by lookin' at it in in different spectrums/filters it might be easier to discencern changes in a pink spectrum than a green 1...things stand out more?

BTW Notice the 3 hit's in Nevada poping up recently...

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