Whats going on at yellowstone?

reply to post by Wrathier


Looking down behind the mound and in the background behind the treeline seems to be alot of steam is that normal?

reply to post by geogeek


Ah yes, it would be but I'll leave that to the amazing minds such as yours - in other words I cant even fathom thinking on that level of scientific reasoning.. Instinct works well for me.. but please carry on cause I love the posts and they bring me comfort..

Originally posted by Hx3_1963
reply to post by Wrathier

 

Looking down behind the mound and in the background behind the treeline seems to be alot of steam is that normal?

Yes. I've seen it a lot more active than this. It's really wild when all of "geyser hill" goes up at the same time.

I don't see anything that hasn't been going on, on and off since I started watching it three or so weeks ago.

In their official Yellowstone updates the USGS usually mentions they see no abnormal geyser activity.

OK it has now been an hour and LKWY is still going up and down, up and down, up and down. Wild.

[edit on 15-1-2009 by quakewatcher]

reply to post by Hx3_1963


Do not kill me if I am wrong I have never been there irl. - Lately I have noticed a lot of steam in the left site of the cam just behind the treas. I guess there is a pretty massive geyser also there. - Perhaps a new one? I only started looking at this cam recently and there is more steam now than before. (But nothing out of the ordinary I guess) - Maybe someone there actually have been there on the parking lot can answer this accurate.

[edit on 15-1-2009 by Wrathier]

M1.8 at Mt St Helens...what's up wit dat?
Been nuttin' around there up till now

1.8 2009/01/15 18:05:15 46.201 -122.179 4.1 0 km ( 0 mi) NNE of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA

2.1 2009/01/14 16:22:36 46.194 -122.186 1.3 1 km ( 0 mi) SSW of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA

1.4 2009/01/13 14:35:07 46.098 -122.094 15.2 13 km ( 8 mi) SSE of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA

Guess it's not real uncommon

[edit on 1/15/2009 by Hx3_1963]

reply to post by Hx3_1963


Nope, it's pretty normal. Mt. St. Helens is still a pretty darned active volcano.

I don't like to see all those blue squares in my neck of the woods though, closer to Seattle.

When did those big quakes happen? This is from the USGS Geomagnetism Program - got funky around 10:00 UTC.

Take a look at all the monitors now

wow: aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

I have not seen them like this before, even with the other 7. quakes that have happened.

I am starting to believe our earth is quaking all around places. It doesn't make sense for the monitors to go off like they do - and the times are off.

A quake shows at Yellowstone, but the time seems to be off from the big quake off Russia.

Seriously, could things have started happening, including yellowstone, due to our earth about to go through a pole shift maybe?

It certainly did rock our world.

Here is link to seismographs worldwide:

aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

Oops, Questioningall already posted it. Amazing stuff though.

[edit on 15-1-2009 by Xlynyr]

reply to post by akjen


just as well , i could only see the PKPPKP & Surface waves & PKPPKS , with resolution of quake i have on web , , it would not have been a good experience for anybody else

[edit on 15/1/09 by geogeek]

reply to post by Xlynyr



Here is a copy of what they all look like now too:
This is the one for Tennessee:

reply to post by questioningall


There's so much Ringing still traveling around it's hard to tell what's real and what's artifact...it is strange though LKWY is still wavering around +20/-15 m...just not calming down all that much really

Techies all scratchin' their heads...I can't see the forest through the trees...



[edit on 1/15/2009 by Hx3_1963]

reply to post by questioningall


It takes time for the waves to reach all the different stations, at different places on the planet. So the times will always be "off" depending on where the big event is located.

This is how seismographs work. Has always been the case.

I am going to put up today's sat pic,

the clouds look wavy once more:

still +/- 20 on TA.H17A under normal circumstances I'd say that would be a ~M1.5 but who knows how P's/long wave correspond on these recorders

Notice how quiet it has gotten after all that...not a lot of new activity...those world wide recorder pages are still maxin' out could that ~M7.4 still affect recorders all over the world this long?

[edit on 1/15/2009 by Hx3_1963]

reply to post by questioningall


There has been so much done to this image, I'm sorry but I just really question it's usefulness for this purpose.

I mean, look at this one. The clouds are yellow!! OMG! (jk, obviously that's colorized.)
www.weather.gov...

My point is, we really don't know what the clouds actually look like from these weather channel images. They are just intended to show you where the weather systems are, not to give you an accurate perception of what the clouds look like in real life.

I don't mean to be a jerk, but can we try to keep a distinction between data like we get from seismographs and lake level readings, actual photos and web cam feeds, and images like this (and google earth) which are not in real time and include effects added in post production? I'm starting to get a little bit grumpy about this.

4.9 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
here we go again

I'm not suggesting that we should take our eyes off Yellowstone. But at this point in the discussion and with what just happened in Russia, could someone that actually knows a geologist or seismologist contact him/her and ask if what we are seeing around the world is normal? Maybe if we just ask the question generally and not scream "Yellowstone is going to erupt", we can get an answer.

Let's take a step back and ask ourselves if what's happening at Yellowstone is actually taking our eyes off something larger that may be occuring. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants...Everyone is devoting all this attention to Yellowstone when really the activity ends up being a precursor (or result of) to somewhere else in the world. That would be just our luck.

Well, I can tell you what my clouds look like real-time.. Dark, grey and fluffy :-) we have had a 40L60H degree temp increase over the past 3 days - high winds and rain, very wicked for us this time of year.. but the birds are singing so.... I'm going to get some beer - might be an interesting day after all..