Whats going on at yellowstone?

If I understand this correctly "http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/index.html" all of the calderon just had a pretty large earthquake? - I did not notice on the Old Faithful cam but... - how do I see how large it was/is ?

Now seeing +/- 90 on GEE at TA.H17A

it's a "shake, rattle & roller"

According to this site there were two quakes, a second apart, east of the Kuril Islands off of Russia

earthquakecloudpredictions.com...

1st was 7.3 mag at depth of 21.75 miles. The 2nd was a second later of 7.7 mag at depth of 27.34 miles.

One hell of a bang!!

Nope, just the one. The 7.7 was downgraded to a 7.3. Sometimes people get that wrong and list it as two quakes.

To the above poster: no, this is not a quake at yellowstone, but a HUGE quake off the coast of Russia, picked up on Yellowstone stations. (And around the world.)

Originally posted by manotick
According to this site there were two quakes, a second apart, east of the Kuril Islands off of Russia

earthquakecloudpredictions.com...

1st was 7.3 mag at depth of 21.75 miles. The 2nd was a second later of 7.7 mag at depth of 27.34 miles.

One hell of a bang!!

LKWY at 18:00 GMT... That is just simply fantastic!!! That Russian EQ is showing up everywhere in the park. I'm learning a little about S and P, too... I did manage to catch up with you guys a little this morning, but I better go back and hit the sack for awhile. I've got to work graveyard tonight..

Man, this is cool stuff...

Ric...

[edit on 15/1/2009 by raepperle]

reply to post by quakewatcher



Thanks for the update.....learning new things every day.

reply to post by nydsdan


Yea; We saw it :-) - very kewl but no effect here.. I'm not sure if YS and Russia quakes are related..yet..

To the above poster: no, this is not a quake at yellowstone, but a HUGE quake off the coast of Russia, picked up on Yellowstone stations. (And around the world.)

Oh sorry then.. - Still can anyone tell me how to see how "strong" the earthquake is on the graph? - I am finding that difficult.

This may or may not be helpful - I found this:

On average, about 50 to 70 eruptions occur worldwide each year, and two to four of these cause serious injuries or deaths. Most volcano-related fatalities, injuries and psychosocial effects occur when a volcano erupts violently and suddenly, leaving little or no time for people to escape or take shelter.

www.geotimes.org...

Also here you can see all the volcano alert levels - about 63 ranging from "Yellow" to "Red".

www.intlvrc.org...

reply to post by Wrathier

AVO picked up the quake down the the AK chain but the readings are quite small in comparitive - strange how that works..

I like how this thread has morphed into a "discuss interesting geologic events around the globe" thread. Gives us stuff to keep talking about.

A 4.0 just hit France.

Weird.

Still watching GEE roll on and on, 35 minutes in.

Local looking spike on YHB, 18:40:36

[edit on 15-1-2009 by quakewatcher]

reply to post by rigel434


I was just thinking the same thing!!

anyone see the old faithful webicorder...looks significantly different from the rest.

www.seis.utah.edu...

Originally posted by akjen
reply to post by Wrathier

 

AVO picked up the quake down the the AK chain but the readings are quite small in comparitive - strange how that works..

actually there is a lot of directionality to the P wave on a fault plane and the observer .. some paths have max compression, some have max expansion (on initiation of quake).. & some paths have little relative movement with respect to the observer ... Google something like "fault plane solution (i think)" .. not saying thats whats happening here, but its something to be aware of ... i'd speculate that areas in line with the Kurile trench would have little P energy ... not so with shear wave energy .. way more info here than i can describe ( & remember BTW )

[edit on 15/1/09 by geogeek]

Whoa; I have not seen anything like that before.. ?? Old Faithful is rollin..

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He he... according to the old faithful cam still plenty of people looking at the geyser: www.nps.gov... - Actually very many right now

seems to be quite a lot of steam from all over the place in the webcam...in the background even

Originally posted by akjen
Whoa; I have not seen anything like that before.. ?? Old Faithful is rollin..

it would be educational to figure out # of degrees between Kurile earthquake & Yellow, calculate arrival times for various waves, and watch them role in ...

neic.usgs.gov...

Now ya know it's gonna be hard to pick out new quakes due to all that ringin' from ~M7.4

reply to post by Hx3_1963


ye this cam is running on my other monitor at all times. - lately the steam has been increasing alot. Ofc I cant watch it 24/7 because it gets to dark in 5-6 hours yellowstone time.