Whats going on at yellowstone?

Totally off topic: If this

www.guardian.co.uk...

Is the general intelligence of Americans... Americans is screwed big time if yellowstone blows.

Sorry to all my freinds and "colleques" from America in here. (just kidding but really try to read it...)

A 300 nanometers spike just occurred near YLT on GEE. It also shows on TA.H17A, so it isn't a data glitch. What's weird is that it doesn't show up on YLA and YTP though...

Originally posted by Wrathier
Totally off topic: If this

www.guardian.co.uk...

Is the general intelligence of Americans... Americans is screwed big time if yellowstone blows.

Sorry to all my freinds and "colleques" from America in here. (just kidding but really try to read it...)

People here can't even grasp that the entire country is not having a cold snap. It's been in the 80s in CA all week but because the East Coast is cold, global warming must be a myth, right?

aaaaannnyway..... To keep it on topic I notice the map has been updated more, looks to be up to date through yesterday morning. I suppose tomorrow it will be up to date through today. Really, what's the urgency anyway, it's just a continent-killing super volcano, right? Why would our tax dollars need to go there?

reply to post by Shirakawa


Yeah that's a little local "thump"...watch for >+10 Micron/s ...a +/-20 Micron/s was ~M2+ last I figured...

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It would seem that the steam explosons are moving more west- north west...when LKWY was having the double couple readings the major jolts where in the same area as now. The shaking most likely shook loose alot of silica deposits and is allowing more of the fluids to migrate to new areas of the park. Being the whole area has been heated in the past it isnt much of a strecth to think the shaking of the dec. quakes could have also allowed more of the caldera materials to move about too.

If you look at the Of geysers you can totally tell that the composition of the "waters" has changed based soley on the color of the "steam clouds" once a large amount of evaporation has taken place.

Ohh I forgot to ask: On www.iris.edu... where is yellowstone located? - I am having difficulties (:

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The story was posted on page 386

Originally posted by manotick
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The story was posted on page 386

Ye but it tolk time to read it all so couldnt post before I read all comments.

YLT is rocking this morning.

Just little stuff so far but it's the one to watch today:

quake.utah.edu...

Another spike just occurred on YLT and TA.H17A on GEE (600 nanometers amplitude on YLT station). As it didn't seem to show up with relevant strength on other stations too (exactly like the earlier 300 nm one), I think it was something weak occurring very close to YLT and TA.H17A stations.

Originally posted by xoxo stacie
If you look at the Of geysers you can totally tell that the composition of the "waters" has changed based soley on the color of the "steam clouds" once a large amount of evaporation has taken place.

So it isn't just my impression that steam on Old Faithful webcam appears darker than I would expect?

[edit on 2009/1/19 by Shirakawa]

Now what's up with this swarm building in Nevada & Utah?
I know I've mentioned a "Trend" going back up W Cali into Nevada but Utah? Idaho next?


[edit on 1/19/2009 by Hx3_1963]

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Think those little "bumps" are from Nevada Eq's?

reply to post by rigel434

Extracts from en.wikipedia.org...

The Toba eruption (the Toba event) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 67,500 to 75,500 years ago. It had an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8 (described as "mega-colossal"), making it possibly the largest explosive volcanic eruption within the last two million years, greater than the Island Park Caldera supereruption (2500 cubic km) of 2.1 million years BP.

Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University have deduced that the total amount of erupted material was about 2800 cubic km (670 cubic miles) Around 2000 cubic km of ignimbrite that flowed over the ground, and around 800 cubic km that fell as ash, with the wind blowing most of it to the west. The pyroclastic flows of the eruption destroyed an area of 20,000 square km (7700 square miles), with ash deposits as thick as 600 metres (2000 feet) by the main vent. By contrast, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ejected around 1.2 cubic km of material, whilst the largest volcanic eruption in historic times, at Mount Tambora in 1815, emitted the equivalent of around 100 cubic km of dense rock and created the "Year Without a Summer" as far away as North America. The eruption was also about three times the size of the latest Yellowstone eruption of Lava Creek 630,000 years ago.

To give an idea of its magnitude, consider that although the eruption took place in Indonesia, it deposited an ash layer approximately 15 cm (6 inch) thick over the entire Indian subcontinent; at one site in central India, the Toba ash layer today is up to 6 m (20 ft) thick[9] and parts of Malaysia were covered with 9 m of ashfall.[10] In addition it has been calculated that 1010 metric tons of sulphuric acid was ejected into the atmosphere by the event, causing acid rain fallout.[11]

Landsat photo of Sumatra surrounding Lake TobaThe subsequent collapse formed a caldera that, after filling with water, created Lake Toba. The island in the center of the lake is formed by a resurgent dome.

Some parts of the caldera have experienced uplift due to partial refilling of the magma chamber, for example pushing Samosir Island and the Uluan Peninsula above the surface of the lake. The lake sediments on Samosir Island show that it has been uplifted by at least 450 metres since the cataclysmic eruption. Such uplifts are common in very large calderas, apparently due to the upward pressure of unerupted magma. Toba is probably the largest resurgent caldera on Earth. Large earthquakes have occurred in the vicinity of the volcano more recently, notably in 1987 along the southern shore of the lake at a depth of 11 km. Other earthquakes have occurred in the area in 1892, 1916, and 1920-1922.

Lake Toba lies near a fault line which runs along the centre of Sumatra called the Sumatra Fracture Zone.

It sort of makes Yellowstone look like a baby!!

God I wish this thing would just blow already and kill everyone last one of us. This is the only way this thread is ever going to end.

By the way some of you owe me some money... about 2 hundred pages ago you guys bet this thing would blow in 72hours. That was like 2 weeks ago.. so pay up suckers )

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Hope all the recent activity in the Indo/ S Pacific area doesn't get that one fidiging also...dang...The Big K up north...T south...YS west...yikes!

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No I dont think it's only you.(me too) I have compared it to some older archived photos of the eruptions and there is a positive change in the color. It is either of a gray or brown depending on the strength of the eruption from the geyser. The only thought I could come up with is perhaps the silica deposits have been shaken loose in many areas causing the change in apperance.
I am also still leaning towards a outward push of the caldera materials as the cause for many of the active areas. In the recent history this is one area to have "not" been over heated to say. It would definaely explain the double couple readings at LKWY as an outward push would have effected that area causing alot of heat and the evaporation and/or major movement of the silica fluids out of that area.
Mabe we should check youtube and see if there are any new videos from the area in question there is def' alot of people out there today...

to ad:
If you look at YMV you can see what material coming to the surface looks like. I am bafled as to why this area has picked up in strength as of late. The area is only supposed to be "springs" but the strength of the movement is as if it is being heated to an eruption point much like a geyser.

[edit on 19-1-2009 by xoxo stacie]

Originally posted by Hx3_1963
Now what's up with this swarm building in Nevada & Utah?
I know I've mentioned a "Trend" going back up W Cali into Nevada but Utah? Idaho next?

[edit on 1/19/2009 by Hx3_1963]

I went to a Seminar a couple years ago when i was living there for a year.
The fault line in Utah, that runs through Salt Lake is about 200 years over due according to the professor who was giving the talk.
From everything he said if/ when it goes it will be a huge one like the New Mandrin is talked about. He said it would destroy almost all of salt lake and area. He was actually quite concerned about it.

Originally posted by PuterMan

It sort of makes Yellowstone look like a baby!!

The Toba eruption was only slightly larger than the Huckleberry Ridge eruption at Yellowstone, so they are comparable. Still, the fact that we haven't heard about more extinctions from such a huge eruption only 70,000 years ago- a short time in geologic history - makes me think that super-eruptions are more survivable than many people believe.



[edit on 19-1-2009 by rigel434]

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So Borat..............Yes I read it and I am so pleased that at long last people are beginning to see what I have believed to be true for years and years re GW. If YS were to blow (just to make sure we are on topic!) it would contribute far more CO2 that we could mange in a generation.

YTP looks interesting...wonder what that's all about...