Whats going on at yellowstone?

aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

why is everyone of the monitors showing such huge quakes around the world.

I have tried to copy the page, but have not been able to.

Can anyone explain such large magnitude readings for everywhere?

It just doesn't seem possible for one quake to cause every monitor around the world to go off.

I keep seeing this type of thing about twice a week now with the monitors.

Hello,

Lately I started wondering if the global intensity of earthquakes and volcano eruptions is increasing or not.
For example, today there is a 3.3/3.4 quake in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland. The last 'major' quake they had was one of Mag 2.0 in 1886 if I am not mistaken.
Add that to the fact that we are seeing a string of quakes going from Pakistan to Afghanistan to Turkey (Turkey seems to be shaking all over) to Greece and then further along two lines, one to the Balkan, Bulgaria, Rumania and Poland and the other through Italy (where both the Stromboli and the Etna are erupting) up north to Switzerland, western Germany till even in the UK.
Of course we cannot overlook the recent megaquakes in the far East, the California valley quakes, the ones in Central America, Alaska, Kamchatka and the mid-atlantic ridge and I am only speaking of the first 15 days of the year 2009! AND Yelowstone that is having stomach aches.
Now, is that because of my increased awareness of and interest in these things or is there really an increased tectonic/volcanic activity?
I know that some people posting on this forum have long been following these events (and I mean for months and years) and they might be able to tell me if what I see is normal or not.
Please ( I address myself to other more 'imaginative' posters) do not start telling me about the position of the stars or bible predictions or whatever fantastic theories you may come up with.
Now back to Yellowstone and a question I put in an earlier post (some 20 pages or more ago) and where I got a reply on, that left me puzzled. I now know why as I made the stupid mistake of mixing up amplitude and frequency, so I now formulate my question again:
In previous threads especially in December, a lot of attention was given to the fact that some graphs night show harmonic tremor (one of the warning signs of an imminent eruption).
Now, reading some info on www.isthisthingon.org on Yellowstone and the explanation given there: www.isthisthingon.org...
my question is: how would we ever be able to distinguish harmonic tremor on a seismograph plotting (like the one from LKWY) when time division is in minutes instead of seconds? The frequency is too high to discern it. It would be possible to see it because LKWY is a broadband station but we would need to be able to view it at a lower frequency (i.e.

reply to post by questioningall


because there are big Quakes going off all around the world...

www.emsc-csem.org...

earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Sorry...but it's just True...THE SKY IS FALLING...(from below)



BTW...seeing EQ's around Parkfield isn't installing much confidence in me either...

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reply to post by questioningall


I have been following this thread since I saw the information about Yellowstone at www.newz.dk. - Before that I never heard about this Volcano and I frankly find it pretty awsome.

In regards to the above post, is all the earthquakes shown on the graphs from around the world not common? Or is it "worse" than usual?

//John.

I am putting some examples of the monitors and what they show, they are like this with everyone of them.



Above: Antarctica



above - Australia



above - another Australia



above - Harvard



above - Hawaii



above - New Mexico



above - Oregon



above - Tennessee

reply to post by robystar


theres definitely a lot of quakes happening, of larger magnititude also.. a lot more +6's than usual but, none in turkey. sorry bro.

reply to post by Hx3_1963


Verification -or- not :

this shouldn't be a difficult problem to program & plot .. download all the earthquakes for last 10 years ,say: convert Magnitudes to energy .. do a running average (time length) of your choice & plot ; cumulative energy is pretty neat too if U are going to do this (just a simple extra step or two )....

as a Eq. watcher since i discovered WEB seismic pages .. say 1998ish ... my take for what its worth is SNSRS ... except for that mid-atlantic ocean quake ... pretty normal , IMHO ....

lets do the suggested plots first, however before any of us commit irrevocably to any particular viewpoint ...

lets not forget, however, that the earth is continuing to get better instrumented with more and better instruments with better geographical coverage .. so at least we might have to drop the weaker quakes from this plot ... (maybe drop any mag < 2.5 - 3.0 quakes from examination, it may however make little diff. as their energy compared to the big ones may be insignificant .. this hypothesis needs testing [many counts vs. weak energy, which dominates ? ]...)




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Great stuff here, learning so much. Here is a pic for the cloud readers.

www.emsc-csem.org...

This is for Spain between 1964 & Now...not very many...been more lately...a M2.7 just now even

and to the universal question of how the world as we know end is??????????????


massive natural dieaster world wide , and this is only the begining.

reply to post by questioningall


Hi,

I have closely been following this thread since information regarding Yellowstone was posted on www.newz.dk. - Before that I never heard about Yellowstone.

In regards to the above posts, it there more earthqueakes right now than usual, or is this just getting a bit hyped out?

I am living far away from Yellowstone currently located in Sweden even that I am from Denmark, and what I understand is, that I will not directly be in trouble if the Supervolcano blows.

Can anyone answer my first question proffesionally and accurate and also how much impact will the worst case scenario might have on Denmark and/or Sweden?

Thank you all in advance.

Great subject this by the way. Spending all my day at work on it (as much as possible) and I am really thrilled if this somehow could make us stand together and forget about the wars and hunger and stuff we are currently experiencing to many places in the world.

reply to post by left turn only


That reminds me of this photo....

upload.wikimedia.org...

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reply to post by Hx3_1963



just to be clear , which book should I start with ??? , i'll order one today .. I feel so helplessly ignorant in the presence of all you EE type people ...

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Berry Beery Intwesting...Lining up...

reply to post by Wrathier


if we had a super eruption (of which its capable, but very highly unlikely .., say goodby to civilization as we know it ... massive food shortages, massive population decline, cold weather... think proposed Jurassic-Cretaceous meteroite impact ... crop failures, etc ..)

Originally posted by Hx3_1963
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Berry Beery Intwesting...Lining up...

Can you explain to us noobs (well, me anyway ) exactly what it is you are seeing in this picture? Thanks.

I have been watching the YS live cam ever since this all started, and is it my imagination or are the geysers more active these past few days?

link to article:
www.findingdulcinea.com...

Interesting enough, Yellowstone is now under an Avalanche Alert

reply to post by Cedrica

Notice all the yellow dots lining up on that big 'ol crack in the ocean floor...

Originally posted by sickofitall2012
I have been watching the YS live cam ever since this all started, and is it my imagination or are the geysers more active these past few days?

I was wondering if there were more of them than normal.

Can anyone answer these questions?

I have been watching it everyday also.