Whats going on at yellowstone?

Daggon clouds!

Naturally the wind is bringing clouds to obscure the view.

The snow is there folks, the darker patches are forest.
M.

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Yeah - you can see tiny little patches of white on the bodies of water. I'm still not convinced. It has been 2 degrees there for a while and the forest does not go right up to the lake banks.

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Thanks for the info and the links. I skimmed through most of it and see lots of records of EQs that allegedly WERE predicted (past tense), but none that ARE predicted. I saw a listing of EQs that he claimed to have predicted, but again the predictions were published AFTER the EQ occurred. Am I still missing something?

Also, none of those clouds look unusual to me (unless they persisted or recurred in a specific area for several days).

Great shots on all the cams! Yep looks like winter and the lakes froze over.

The real white spots on the lake are probably the sun shining through holes in the clouds. IMO ....Long way away though.

P.S. That is one gigantonormously fantasticlismicly huge caldera!





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Lake Michigan (which is right outside my windows and bigger) frozen:





Not so frozen:

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Yes there is one or two on the Irish Aviation Authority links. It might take a little finding but I will give it a go. It was a helocopter and it landed heavily on Dublin Bay beach after flying into an invisible plume from Poolbeg power station.

For additional reference to what winter looks like, here is Mt. St. Helens now:

Originally posted by Penster
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Yeah - you can see tiny little patches of white on the bodies of water. I'm still not convinced. It has been 2 degrees there for a while and the forest does not go right up to the lake banks.

Ok, the snow goes all the way from the trees to the lake/river etc, you are not going to see a 'break' between the land and the water because it is buried under 42 inches of snow. (If I remember correctly.) I'm just hoping tomorrow will be clear so it will be more evident in the overcast pictures.

If we can see a huge melt in the lake, from this angle it'd say more.
But photo-reconnaissance says other wise at the moment.

M.

Originally posted by ChrisCrikey
And? What about Ireland?

Any one know what this was about? Ireland is reputed to be the least earthquake prone country in the world. There was a very small one a couple of years ago off the east coast.

Originally posted by Penster
For additional reference to what winter looks like, here is Mt. St. Helens now:

The area around Mount Saint Helens is mostly stripped of trees.
This
www.fs.fed.us...

is a sumer shot of nearly the same angle.

You would need something more wooded to compare with.
M.

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Nice shots. Prolly alot of stuff to do on the lake too! Ice fishing, etc.
Is there a volcano in there? Hope not, it would be massivlyhugeamongously big!

P.S. I don't care for the fact this one is in my backyard, really.
Even though it is a beautifull place!
Gotta live somewhere right?

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No volcano - probably why it's FROZEN!

I believe that the cloud phenomenon that was shown on the last page as a precursor to earthquakes is called a gravity wave, and can be read about here:

Gravity Wave

Not meaning to necessarily debunk the theory but those shown on ATS on the last page are almost certainly gravity waves, which can manifest in different layers of the atmosphere depending on what mechanism causes them (ie. storms vs. lee effects from a mountain).

Other than that, good job around here. I'm impressed at the amount of real science that has been posted up here. Good job not being all weird and fringy conspiracy theorist and actually getting down to the real science.

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Thank you! One less thing to worry about!
We already have several "fun spots" out west here to keep us busy!

Old faithfull cams were getting some good shots!


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Is there a shot of earthquake clouds over the lake?

Or Old Faithful?

Do any of you have a link showing the earthquake noted? it shows up on the charts but it doesn't show up on

earthquake.usgs.gov...

but it looks large enough to. Or am I wrong of the size?

Back to Yellowstone.
What kind of quake are we seeing at 1800 UTC?
Or is it something else?
On LKWY (at low sensitivity = 500 microvolts) it shows clearly as well as on all the other stations. I can detect no previous p wave trace or it is so close to the s wave signal, meaning the epicenter would be very, very near to the station, that it has become invisible. The magnitude if it is an earthquake, would be over 3 on the Richter.

Now these are cool

Have a look at these guys!!


www.dailymail.co.uk...

Ok, I've read every page of this thread from page one and would like to comment on the direction it seems to be taking. I have had only a few number of college classes in geology and meteorology, but I know beautiful cirus clouds when I see them. And thats all they are. Yes, pullutants contribute to their overall color and formations, but to use them as a predictor of seismic activity is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps they might be present at the time of a volcanic eruption, but many other signs would have been observed weeks, months and years in advance.

This is a discussion about yellowstone, and all I've been seeing lately are photos of nice mid level cirus clouds and some northern lights. I suggest everybody who has recently joined this thread take the time to educate themselves by reading it from page one. You might be taken more seriously if you can communicate at the same level as the people who have been here from the start.

For what it's worth, I just spoke with my in-laws who visited Yellowstone while on vacation last weekend. They are not geologists or park experts but they informed me that from what they saw the lake was completely frozen over and things "appeared" to be business as usual at the park... just snowy and windy.

I know this isn't a photograph or hard data that will be convincing to any of you but I trust their observations. Peace.

mt

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That appears to be tracking the Russian 7.4 mag earthquake that took place at 17:49 UTC

www.emsc-csem.org...

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