Whats going on at yellowstone?

reply to post by Bon3eye


Good video, makes you wonder about all the shaking in Utah recently though.

My mind kept mis-translating the fault name to 'watch ass fault' but that is what happens when I am trying to wake up.

I can't say I appreciated the odd music in the background of it though... it like they were going out of their way to say.

"Hey it's perfectly safe, but we're going to weird you out."

Not what you expect in an educational vid...

M.

I have converted a pipecleaner seismic wave from LKWY data available from VASE into a wave audio file.

Seismic data from LKWY (BHZ channel) is recorded at (from what I've seen) 43 Hz. To make it audible we have to speed this up. I chose a 50x factor, so the wave file is at 2150 Hz. The original audio segment was 300 seconds long, at 50x speed it became 6 seconds long.

The sound appears to be definitely of mechanic or electronic nature.
Download it here.

[edit on 2009/1/27 by Shirakawa]

I have had the live feed from Old Faithful up most of the day.

It stopped so I clicked on Play to continue but instead of the usual live feed, I now am seeing "Listen to Yellowstone" a 2 minute video about the sites and sounds of the park. It is the same window that the live feed was just in. I didn't change the URL, just clicked the play button

Now the live feed is back.

Has anyone else encountered this short video before instead of the live feed?

P

added at 150 pm CST - the time of the latest quake at YS is about the same time I lost the feed for the live web cam. Wonder if the shaking disrupted the feed?

[edit on 27-1-2009 by AlwaysWondering]

LKWY one quake on GEE

there I was sitting at my desk quietly working away... and a 2.8 hits Yellowstone near the spot of a 3.0 that hit two weeks ago. This is a defined fault at the north east corner of the caldera.

The percussion section is starting to warm up, but the conductor is still not yet on stage.

Time to watch the GEE again?

Uh ohhhh....they are back!!!

Magnitude 2.8
Date-Time Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 19:23:24 UTC
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 12:23:24 PM at epicenter

Location 44.695°N, 110.237°W
Depth 0.4 km (~0.2 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
Distances 43 km (27 miles) SSW (213°) from Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
53 km (33 miles) SE (135°) from Gardiner, MT
69 km (43 miles) E (87°) from West Yellowstone, MT
458 km (285 miles) NNE (17°) from Salt Lake City, UT

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles); depth +/- 17.7 km (11.0 miles)

here we go again.....

(ps: nice work on the 400 page avatar....still working on inc. into my avatar... )

www.seis.utah.edu...

new quake at YS 2.8

damn you people beat me to itlol

[edit on 27/1/09 by alysha.angel]

reply to post by operation mindcrime


Following these Yellowstone quakes is addictive. I check the live seismograms a few times a day- when we have a quake I run to this thread to see the comments.

Looks like the latest one is right in the area of prior activity, maybe a little northward drift from the prior quakes.

It looks like they are finally updating the map. A few quakes have happened today.

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km LOCATION
MAP 2.8 2009/01/27 19:23:24 44.695 -110.237 0.4 43 km ( 27 mi) SSW of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
MAP 1.1 2009/01/27 13:53:20 44.375 -110.564 2.2 54 km ( 33 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.1 2009/01/27 10:54:26 44.725 -111.157 6.9 8 km ( 5 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.7 2009/01/26 21:52:34 44.182 -110.411 6.0 67 km ( 41 mi) NE of Alta, WY
MAP 1.2 2009/01/25 10:35:31 42.163 -112.068 2.1 6 km ( 4 mi) WSW of Clifton, ID
MAP 1.5 2009/01/24 21:35:24 42.164 -112.069 2.4 6 km ( 4 mi) WSW of Clifton, ID
MAP 1.5 2009/01/23 19:34:21 42.169 -112.070 5.9 6 km ( 4 mi) WSW of Clifton, ID
MAP 1.5 2009/01/23 17:41:21 44.544 -110.351 0.8 61 km ( 38 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.1 2009/01/23 17:40:08 44.538 -110.355 0.7 61 km ( 38 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.7 2009/01/23 17:38:42 44.540 -110.357 1.6 61 km ( 38 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.2 2009/01/23 14:02:35 44.539 -110.366 2.0 60 km ( 37 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.4 2009/01/23 14:01:05 44.539 -110.361 0.3 61 km ( 38 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.0 2009/01/23 13:29:52 44.538 -110.358 2.1 61 km ( 38 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
MAP 1.1 2009/01/23 04:25:16 44.664 -110.013 12.0 40 km ( 25 mi) S of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
MAP 1.6 2009/01/23 04:13:26 44.667 -110.014 13.4 39 km ( 24 mi) S of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
MAP 1.4 2009/01/22 22:52:33 44.654 -110.005 13.4 41 km ( 25 mi) S of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
MAP 1.5 2009/01/22 22:49:58 44.653 -109.979 18.4 41 km ( 25 mi) S of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
MAP 1.2 2009/01/21 03:23:20 44.670 -110.013 12.5 39 km ( 24 mi) S of Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT

N.E. of the lake isn't where we want to see activity..

If it goes though, we'll all have time to say our goodbyes.

reply to post by Shirakawa


You beat me to it! Thanks for the info on the amplitude. I still have a couple of things to sort out as the wave won't play in .NET using PlaySound, but it does play in WMP and other players. In addition the program downloads USGS EQ data files directly and allows you to filter the results. It has it's own built in web viewer and favourites. At present it runs with SQL Server as the database, but I will do a compact version that everyone can use.

I would agree that the pipe cleaner sound is definitely mechanical.

Forgot to say that when you are looking at the eq list you can right click and go directly to the location in Google Earth

[edit on 27/1/09 by PuterMan]

Originally posted by rigel434
reply to post by operation mindcrime

 

Following these Yellowstone quakes is addictive.


me thinks so too.

reply to post by rigel434


Addictive indeed!!!!

It's like Sageturkey already said before :"i've turned my wife into an ATS-widow".
Whatching this thing day and night, in the car, at work and now even when i'm taking a bath.
Is there such a thing as ATS-anonymous?? If there is a seven-step program i have already cleared the first step and that is admitting i have a problem....

ps: i know who i'll be seeing there aswell ,right Moshpet, Hx3_1963, dodadoom, spinkyboo, alysha.angel, PuterMan, rigel434 ????
And ofcourse Shirakawa and JustMike for they are addicted beyond help i'm affraid!!!....

(just kidding, much respect for how long you two are keeping this up)


Edit: how could i forget TrueAmerican, he's the only one who has been on this thread since page 1. Sorry about that one....see you at the ATSA meeting....

[edit on 27/1/2009 by operation mindcrime]

Wow, look at lkwy:
www.quake.utah.edu...

Like total quiet and then out of nowhere, wham. Wondering if the redoubt activity could have something to do with it. All's quiet though now in GEE.

Originally posted by operation mindcrime
reply to post by rigel434

 

Addictive indeed!!!!

It's like Sageturkey already said before :"i've turned my wife into an ATS-widow".
Whatching this thing day and night, in the car, at work and now even when i'm taking a bath.
Is there such a thing as ATS-anonymous?? If there is a seven-step program i have already cleared the first step and that is admitting i have a problem....

ps: i know who i'll be seeing there aswell ,right Moshpet, Hx3_1963, dodadoom, spinkyboo, alysha.angel, PuterMan, rigel434 ????
And ofcourse Shirakawa and JustMike for they are addicted beyond help i'm affraid!!!....

(just kidding, much respect for how long you two are keeping this up)

There are plenty of us lurkers too.
Once firefox starts a-shakin' I know it is time to head into this thread!

Oh, and thanks to all of you for contributing. Great info here and I have learned a lot about earthquakes. Hopefully this is all for naught and we will not witness the 'biggie' in our lifetime...

Interesting also that there was a Kentucky quake - that's not a common occurrence.
There's some interesting shaking going on -

reply to post by operation mindcrime


Count me in too...
Just lurking now after i made some discovery's and turn hard down by couple guys.
And if they read my posts yep couple day's later, some one discovered the same....

My wife is also an ats widow..

reply to post by PuterMan


It looks like normal sound players have problems reproducing files with very low sample rate. I have problems with some of them too.

By the way, here is how I process ascii data before converting it into audio data with the utility I linked before:

- Import data into a spreadsheet (this is the longest part I have to do manually, since the program doesn't want to sequentially import numbers, but arranges them in more columns, so I have to separate them)
- After arranging all the wave data in to a single column, compute the average of all values
- Subtract to each value the computed average (this is to adjust offset to 0)
- Find the maximum absolute value among all points
- Divide each point by such value (this normalizes the maximum peak to -1/+1)
- Convert ascii to wav

By the way, if you have time could you make a simply utility which extracts wave data from a VASE ascii file and arranges it in a single column by eliminating white spaces and inserting a CR+LF after each value? That would be very useful for fast editing/viewing in a spreadsheet.


[edit on 2009/1/27 by Shirakawa]

Originally posted by operation mindcrime

Is there such a thing as ATS-anonymous?? If there is a seven-step program i have already cleared the first step and that is admitting i have a problem....

ps: i know who i'll be seeing there aswell ,right Moshpet, Hx3_1963, dodadoom, spinkyboo, alysha.angel, PuterMan, rigel434 ????
And ofcourse Shirakawa and JustMike for they are addicted beyond help i'm affraid!!!....

What I wonder is whether the folks at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory read this thread and whether they make fun of us. I suspect they do- if there's a thread where people talk about you and your work the inclination has to be to read it.

On another note, maybe we should start trading Yellowstone baseball cards:

e.g. Yellowstone junkie 1: I'll trade you a 2006 "Jake Lowenstern checks out Old Faithful" card for a 1998 "Bob Smith reads a seismogram."

Yellowstone junkie 2: No way, that's a collector's item.

[edit on 27-1-2009 by rigel434]

Originally posted by spinkyboo
Interesting also that there was a Kentucky quake - that's not a common occurrence.
There's some interesting shaking going on -

Yeah, and also some quakes in Spain and Switzerland... interesting. Fortunately, they are all around the mag 3.0 range and nothing seems to be escalating. I sure am glad the swarm from the new year subsided as it did... it was getting a little scary!

I'm sure it is just because I have been paying more attention lately, but it does seem like a large-ish event may be building though.