Whats going on at yellowstone?

If anyone is to make an outlandish claim, it would be me. I know there's something going on the we and the geologists are missing. That being said, I think the earthquakes are mainly normal faulting. Although there have been no prior swarms in this exactly location, it is obvious from a map of quakes 1973-2009 shows activity in this part of the caldera. There are now know major faults mapped as of yet, but the previous quakes point to small faults, which it seems have all decided to go off at once. It could be that shattering glass in slow motion thing again.

Here's a bunch of material that can really help you understand all the different things going on under the surface.

www.uusatrg.utah.edu...

www.uusatrg.utah.edu...

I'm reading this one because it has so much material on one site.

volcanoes.usgs.gov...

I still think there is a change in the magma itself and this is causing the "normal" faulting. Hey, as zany as I am, I have to facts as they present themselves. If my lateral thinking is correct, then we may want to move our attention back to that odd quake all by itself in the midde of the caldera. If another swarm starts in another location, then I think we may have phenomenon here, if the quakes follow the lunar cycle that is.

The groundwater is rerouted. The gases are redistributed as pressure changes. And magma thermal differentials are changing the crust's tensile strength. The slight upward forced caused during the moon's alignment adds stress. The high altitude lake weighs less and this means less downward forces which in a normal state would counteract the upward pressure from the magma chamber. The incredible thing as this whole process, if you could see it visually, is incrementally small. The whole caldera would move very slightly upward, and then resettle. The reseachers have found that the ups and downs of the caldera, the uplift and subsidence, has been going on for a very long time. So that should be considered normal as well. It's a pair of lungs breathing. Just each exhale and inhale is over decades as we see. The only problem is that the crust is not an elastic cellular substances, allways repairing itself. Even in old age we lose the ability and we fall apart. The glass like crust is shattering with each breath. Until the whole cap is fractured to a point it can't resist all that upward force from the volume and heat of the chamber.

Ok I'm not reviewing again. Just going to try and stop. Forgive.

wat i am wondering,,,,wat is the policy to upgrade yellowstone from green to yellow..

sureley such an upgrade there would have a great impact in social and economic live... greater than any other vulcano...
and i can imagine that the gov. will not be happy with such an case...

possible that USGS would take moore risks before they make an upgrade?...

my thought is ..if such an swarm happend near st helens the alert would be upgraded...

(robin shut up)

The official start of the swarm is Jan. 17th. If you look at the red graph, you notice that they have included the 15th and 16th. You may have to squint, but they're there. Oh hear my prayer Peter, (head YVO), please include the days on which thirteen quakes preceded the main flurry on the 17th. I only stand on the fact that the other graphs for noteable swarms includes days in which a small number of quakes occured but were considered as part of the swarm. The thirteen quakes could be discounted if they came many days or weeks before the main event. Being that they are in the same area, and the fact that there were virtually no quakes in the park, then I think there is a great likelyhood that they are not coincidental. (anything else robin, were waiting, you have to stop so get it out of your system......)

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(there was a violent struggle just now, please forgive once more)

I am not sure and maybe one of you can answer and or comment on this.

YVO has been saying that the uplift under the lake has slowed and went so far in December to say it may have stopped, which they omitted for January - they are using this plot in their postings

pboweb.unavco.org...

but if we look at this plot we see something different

pboweb.unavco.org...

here is a map of the station locations

vulcan.wr.usgs.gov...

Am I to assume then just a portion of the Lake area's uplift has subsided or am I missing something completely.

Originally posted by Anmarie96
Am I to assume then just a portion of the Lake area's uplift has subsided or am I missing something completely.

Ground deformation has different amounts and trends on different areas of Yellowstone. The station usually got as reference to report general uplift, or records, however, is WLWY. I think that's simply because it's the station which reported the largest amount of upward deformation trend over the last 6-7 years.

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Plot of earthquakes as showing on ANSS at 22:00 UTC on 02/02/2010

Date from 00:00 UTC on 15/01/2010 (01/15/2010 ATF)

Thought you might like to see a comparison to the 2008/9 swarm

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well looks like we are gettin sum new bigger action at yellowstone, could get interesting after its short pause

This unusually large swarm just won't stop. Apparently neither will I. I'd love to see this bunch on your spectothingy. Once again I was wondering if it was over. I think that's why I've been so anxious. Part of....

Shirakawa you probably didn't notice it in my long rant but I was wondering about mine explosion. Is it a mineshaft or mountaintop. And did it register equally on all stations.

shut up 1985

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The problem, however, is that ANSS database still lacks 1000+ earthquakes occurred in the current swarm.
It's hard to do comparisons in this way.

Is there any doubt now that this swarm has surpassed last year and cumulative energy?

This has to be officially the second largest swarm on record and shows no signs of stopping. This is not common, relatively or otherwise.

That's why I keep saying don't be surprised by it. I'm surprised by it and I know it's coming. I'm like a baby playing peek a boo.



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Something very odd is going on now... a sudden blast of quakes under 2.0 magnitude, somewhere between 10 and 20 of them within the past half-hour (difficult to be precise). I don't think I've seen a pattern quite like this before... but still no recognizable harmonic tremors. You can see it best from YPM, I think.

www.quake.utah.edu...

Weird patterns there at 17:15 and 13:00... Anyone?

Originally posted by Robin Marks
This unusually large swarm just won't stop. Apparently neither will I. I'd love to see this bunch on your spectothingy. Once again I was wondering if it was over. I think that's why I've been so anxious. Part of....

Here's the spectothingy of the last hour of activity at YMC:

They seem ordinary earthquakes to me (also most of them are rather small, but on webicorders they look like multiple big ones), but I haven't analyzed them in detail. I'm sure there wouldn't be surprises though.

Shirakawa you probably didn't notice it in my long rant but I was wondering about mine explosion. Is it a mineshaft or mountaintop. And did it register equally on all stations.

I think those are ordinary open-pit mines (mountaintop? I'm not sure).

Originally posted by pantangele
www.quake.utah.edu...

Weird patterns there at 17:15 and 13:00... Anyone?

Mine blasts from coal mines south of Gillette, WY.

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www.quake.utah.edu...

Shirakawa... Constant 1-5 Hz signal, no?

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No.
You can't measure signal frequencies from webicorder views.
You need raw data and a spectrometer software.

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This at all strange to you?:

quake.utah.edu...

Saw similar stuff last year, at the peak of the swarm...

Just seems more constant and the waves look different than what I've seen the past two weeks.

All I can say is, she better not blow her top tonight... I've got three hours of Lost to watch. In fact, it better not blow up at any time before the final episode or I'll make someone pay. (I'm actually sitting here whispering "C'mon, you've been holding together for over half a million years, you can hold out a few more months!" to a volcano. Lost is clearly a virus.)

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This kind of thing worries me. I'm afraid if God hears something so trivial, he'll assume we deserve what's coming and decide to pop the top of the champagne bottle just to celebrate our eradication.

1895 The largest swarm recorded. 3000 quakes over three months.

Sorry these are big beacuse you need to be able to see them. (Right click for the full view)

By their own admission on the page someone (Shirakawa??) put up the swarm was from 02/10/1985 (01/02/1985 ADF) to 31/12/1985 (12/31/1985 ADF)

It would seem that a serious amount of data is missing off ANSS, or there is an aroma of pork pie in the air.

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Being as this is a conspiracy site, could it be that they re calming our fears??? If the data on ANSS is correct, and has not been got at by the mice in the server, then this current swarm is way the biggest.

Here is the graph from the article
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So then, we must then re-think this - the uplift at one portion of the uplift area has subsided for the most part. Another area not far away continue to lift steadily - and by almost as much as the northeast section but just not as sharply as the northeast section a few years back. I would then assume we have movement and infusion of magma into the still uplifting portion of the northwest side of the lake as it appears there is not leveling off there.

And by the way, figures I leave the office to come home and miss the latest fireworks

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