Whats going on at yellowstone?

reply to post by bkaust




www.seis.utah.edu...


heres the map for that 3.9

reply to post by operation mindcrime



Close is a relative descripter, but it was about 250 miles to the northwest or between 6 and 7 hours driving time from Yellowstone - but only an hour from home and I did not feel it. I wouldn't call it 'real' close.

reply to post by Arluk


Thanks!!

You would think that, after almost 500 pages, one would know where Yellowstone is situated.........not me!

I was kinda close, though.

Peace



[edit on 13/1/2010 by operation mindcrime]

Maybe someone who understands the webicorders better than myself can answer this question. Why did the 3.9 magnitude in Montana on Wednesday show up prominently on the Yellowstone webicorders, but the 3.7 today did not? The 3.7 may be may have slightly less strength, but it was closer and still didn't register. The only major difference that I can see is that the depth of the quake today has not been determined and labelled poorly constrained. Have a look at the webicoders for Wednesday and today and compare. None of the Yellowstone webicorders registered the quake even though is it relatively close to the Yellowstone.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Even the ulta sensitive YPK didn't show anything for the 3.7 today. But I'm just reading the regular webicorders and I'm am by no means an expert. Maybe one of you folks with the fancy GEE can explain what you see. I don't even know exactly what that means other than it is a better system.

I'm not jumping to any conclusions. It's just that is makes no sense to me that one quake would register and not the other.

That earthquake was just pulled from the map. Maybe it was just a technical blip, since as you say it didn't register on the webicorders.

Never mind my question. I just recieved email deleting the 3.7 upon review by a seismologist.

It looks like a few small, but a bit larger than usual earthquakes are occurring in the northwest part of the Yellowstone caldera. Keep an eye on them!

YMR Webicorder (updated every 30 minutes from the interveners site)
theinterveners.org...

[edit on 2010-1-17 by Shirakawa]

yea there are defin a series of small quakes happening right now, its simply amazing how it can be so quiet for a period then start back up again, kinda crazy but interesting, think ill turn gee on

I was just coming in here to comment on the same thing. Looks like a bunch of you check the webicorders, but so far only one on the map.

I'll be watching today.

If you have been following the Quake Watch 2010 thread you know there have been swarms (or at least minor activity) at all of the California volcanic regions this week. Interesting to see things now kicking up at Yellowstone.

Probably totally unrelated but tonight and tomorrow we'll be getting hit by a pretty good geomagnetic storm.

reply to post by steve95988


If you're using GEE, the most sensitive available station to these earthquakes is WY.YMC.
By the way, a bigger one occurred right now!

[edit on 2010-1-17 by Shirakawa]

Originally posted by Shirakawa
reply to post by steve95988

 

If you're using GEE, the most sensitive available station to these earthquakes is WY.YMC.
By the way, a bigger one occurred right now!

[edit on 2010-1-17 by Shirakawa]

yea i have been tryin to figure out a way to make it show on gee, i add the yellowstone network from the add network button, but it pops up the lil triangles but does nothin when i go to load the real time viewer

reply to post by steve95988


From the Station Chooser, after you have chosen your stations, you have to manually select "All Channels", then EHZ and HHZ. Then it will add them to the real time viewer.

Another significant earthquake just occurred. It was slightly less powerful than the previous one. I bet these are the biggest ones that will occur and that now activity will slowly fade over the next few hours.

[edit on 2010-1-17 by Shirakawa]

I had uninstalled GEE, I'm running out of memory. Might break down and reinstall though if this keeps up.

USGS has now confirmed two:

2.5 2010/01/17 21:55:56 44.552 -110.959 0.9 17 km ( 11 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT
2.7 2010/01/17 21:04:07 44.562 -110.967 9.7 16 km ( 10 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Originally posted by quakewatcher
I had uninstalled GEE, I'm running out of memory. Might break down and reinstall though if this keeps up.

USGS has now confirmed two:

2.5 2010/01/17 21:55:56 44.552 -110.959 0.9 17 km ( 11 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT
2.7 2010/01/17 21:04:07 44.562 -110.967 9.7 16 km ( 10 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT

earthquake.usgs.gov...

sheet you beat me to it ... oh well ill add the link to it ha .



Update time = Sun Jan 17 15:00:40 MST 2010
Here are the earthquakes appearing on this map, most recent at top ...

MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km

2.5 2010/01/17 14:55:56 44.552N 110.959W 0.9 17 km (10 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT
2.7 2010/01/17 14:04:07 44.562N 110.967W 9.7 16 km (10 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT




[edit on 17/1/10 by alysha.angel]

reply to post by Shirakawa


thank you!! lol been tryin to figuree it out since dec 08!! yea i gotta work a night shift tonite dang it!! no comp access to keep an eye on this thing

USGS just upgraded that 2.5 to a 2.6

Downloading GEE now...

I really don't want to argue the point, but I predicted this weekend would see a swarm. I based it on the position of the moon during the major swarm last year. The earthquakes in this area of the caldera started late Friday night with a quake and there were several yesterday. Too bad the they don't post earthquakes on the weekends otherwise we'd have more information.

It's not a coincidence that I happened to know when the next swarm would hit. I used observations taken from the last swarm and applied them to this lastest lunar cycle. Just like the dynamics seen with the tides, the moon has an affect on the liquids under Yellowstone.

Here's the post I made on the 29th of December when I realized the moon, sun and earth would be in situation similiar last year.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Dear: Writer

I too have been following the USGS live seismic activity of Yellowstone Park and the Lake in which you speak of for the past six years or so. The activity that seems to be centralized in the lake has become more active in the past few months. It is in my opinion that Yellowstone’s Eruption will be the precursor to the massive Polar Shift of the planet.

I have spoken with several fellow scientists about this location for many years and have followed its activities. According to my friend in the USGS anything within six hundred and fifty miles of the epicenter of the Eruption will be obliterated. The Pyroclastic flow could reach as far as two hundred thirty to two hundred and fifty miles of the park. Everything within one thousand miles of the park would be covered in several feet of ash and debris and be rained on by lysergic acid diethylamide.

The cloud carrying this acid depending on wind currents could carry this debris as far as NY or even Russia. These are a few things to think about before living to close to this Super Massive Caldera.

Good luck with your studies, I hope we are all round for you to use the knowledge.

Sincerely

TheGhost

Well, that was cheerful.

Anyway... they don't update quakes under 2.0 on weekends, huh? So we probably won't see the vast majority of these showing up on the map until after the MLK holiday.

I continue to see little quakes on GEE but probably nothing we'll see plotted on the map. Guess we have to wait for the next weekly update for any actual word on what's happening in the park at large.

While I was busy complaining about that, they posted a third:

2.5 2010/01/17 22:43:34 44.564 -110.972 6.5 15 km ( 9 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT