Whats going on at yellowstone?

Lakeway sure seems busy today, wonder why? Madison is showing some activity, but don't know what to make of it.

reply to post by EngTech36


I see what you mean. I saw the 'noise' across the park and assumed that once again the afternoon norm was at play. Then I clicked on YPP HERE and HERE you can clearly see several, distint micro quakes.

(note that YPP is 800 microvolts and YLT is 1066.)

[edit on 18-3-2010 by westcoast]

I really wish that over ambitious woodpecker finds another location away from B208 to peck on. Even though we have come to the conclusion that this is all spring clean up, it's still freaks me out when I see a seismo in such a state!

Is this one a mine blast?

I have yet to work out what they look like. J23A.TA..BHE.2010.077

reply to post by PuterMan


If you are talking about the very large black into blue, I believe that is 5.0 2010/03/18 18:51:51 -22.329 -179.507 607.0 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS.

Anmarie

quake.utah.edu...

what the hell !?!?!?

reply to post by Austria


Exactly my reaction!

The only reason I am not worried is that it isn't showing up significantly on any other stations. I don't know enough about this equipment to speculate though.

I would think to get THAT much someone's gotta be jumping up and down on top of it!

reply to post by Austria

I believe that again that is part of the spring clean-up. Those
signals are also showing up on B208 which is a bore hole instrument
near by. By comparing the magnitudes you can see why they like
bore hole instruments. 250 feet down or what-ever gets away from
much of the surface noise!!

I did some sound from B208 this morning and it sounds like the
B207 sounds posted the other day. I believe though that it is
actually a different machine as it doesn't make the large thumps.

Unfortunately I have not been able to find any of the LKWY
data to download, and convert to sound.

reply to post by PuterMan

Sorry for the late reply I have been away. I believe that is a good
example of a mine blast, with the instrument being quite close
to the explosion. It arrived about 1 minute later at YPK and has
the slight double hump. That is 19:00:25 UTC or so.

According to USGS P travel time, the FUJI quake should have
arrived between 19:02 and 19:03. The P waves don't usually
show up very well on those TA network stations, but if the quake
is large enough you can see the S waves quite well. I think the
lack of background noise indicates that the gain is turned down
quite a bit on those instruments.

I did hear from IRIS but I have to feed them
some more information in order for them to answer my
questions.

YPP is currently active again.

www.quake.utah.edu...

3 larger ones and a number of small ones. Sort of like this
morning.


[edit on 18-3-2010 by EngTech36]

I have been reluctant to comment up till now, because everything I have been seeing at PB207 and PB208 has appeared to be man made noise.

BUT, for the first time in a while I am now observing multiple station spikes at the same time on PB207, PB208, and PB944. These are definitely microquakes. Maybe she's cranking up again.

In my humble opinion, YS are not going to give us any surprise or increase in activity yet. I do not think the condition "worldwide" are "right" just yet.

Quake Mar. 19, 2010 04:14:55 UTC around mag 1?

Measuring in GEE
YWB 04:14:55.108
YHB 04:14:55.263
YPM 04:14:55.263
YHH 04:14:55.432
B207 04:14:55.545


[edit on 18-3-2010 by EngTech36]

Are These showing up at other stations? I would search it out but dreaded dial is giving problems this morning!

reply to post by Anmarie96

Yes, YMR, YPM and YWB. Also B208, B944, YLT, YLA and YTP are
very busy with micro quakes. And there is also some pretty good
activity at YHB. with some larger micro quakes.

Edit: While typing this a double bump came through Yellowstone,
earliest on YHB which turned out to be this.
earthquake.usgs.gov...

first red box I've seen over here for a while.


[edit on 19-3-2010 by EngTech36]

reply to post by EngTech36


Folks, I have been a bit quiet the last day or so as I am busy upgrading the QuakeData program. The next version will contain a list of all the webicorders for Yellowstone and beyond - actually the whole of the active IRIS list - some 2060 instruments. You will be able to query a station code and find out what the station is, and fly to that station's location in Google Earth. Example below.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/1dd8f7814e37.png[/atsimg]

You can look for cool webicorders such as "Gods own repeater station" - anyone guess where that one is?

I would also like to try and incorporate a system of determining what a trace is on a recorder - in particular on the Yellowstone recorders. I might be asking for some mathematical help on that item!

The tide numbers (if that is what they are) went higher on B944
today. That seemed to cause the micro quake activity around
Yellowstone Lake to increase in size and number.
Here is Little Thumb
www.quake.utah.edu...
And The Promontory
www.quake.utah.edu...
B208
www.iris.edu...
and B944 South Little Thumb
www.iris.edu...

The seismometer at Horse Butte near Hebgen Lake is also
showing microquakes
www.quake.utah.edu...
www.quake.utah.edu...

There also were a few stronger quakes in the Norris Junction area
picked up by B205
www.iris.edu...

Otherwise it is pretty quiet!!

have you read this topic yet?????

www.abovetopsecret.com...

17 of 18 vulcano's in indonesia on alert status....

wats going on??????

www.intlvrc.org...

[edit on 21-3-2010 by ressiv]

Thought all of you would be interested in and may contribute to the following:

ATS Thread Icelands Eruptions Global Consequences


And I forgot for a moment myself, Iceland is the ONLY place in the world where the Atlantic Ridge rises above the water line.

Documentary evidence suggests there may have been
significant human illness and morbidity in parishes in rural England in
the late eighteenth century. Demographic data for a number of rural
parishes in different environmental settings point to a singular peak in
burials taking place in 1783. The Laki Fissure eruption of 1783-84 and
the resultant atmospheric loading by gas and sub-PM10 aerosol, in
particular H2SO4 generated massive, but entirely natural air pollution.
In northwest Europe, the air pollution was manifested as a persistent,
foul-smelling dry fog and various forms of acid-damage to crops, trees
and water-bodies and a consistent range of human health problems.
These link the presence of the dry fog with headaches, eye irritation,
decreased lung function and asthma. The concept that intense
anthropogenic air pollution may cause respiratory illness and/or the
death of vulnerable sections of the population is familiar in modern
western societies. There is no reason to suggest that volcanic air
pollution may not have had a similar impact in the past. Mortality
patterns from widely separated English rural parishes suggest that a
crisis did occur during the summer of 1783 û awareness of physical
process and the circumstantial evidence suggests acid volcanic gases
may have been the key agent. Calculation of mortality indices from
available demographic data does suggest that death rates did increase
significantly at this time and mortality in the summer of 1783 is
classified as a ôcrisisö. In raw numbers over 10 000 more people died
at this time than would normally be expected û this is actually a 1000
more people than died in Iceland following the Laki fissure eruption.

PDF


And further as in the words of the USGS its better to live in Hawaii than by Laki!!

For eight months during the years 1783-1784, lava erupted from dozens of vents along a 27-km-long (17-mile-long) fissure system in the highlands of southern Iceland. Basaltic lava flows—just like the flows we see here in Hawai`i—poured south out of the mountains onto the coastal plains, burying 599 square km ( 231 square miles) in the process. The total volume of lava erupted in eight months is estimated at 15.1 cubic km (3.6 cubic miles). In comparison, Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption, approaching the end of its 26th year of activity, has produced only about 3.4 cubic km (0.8 cubic miles) of lava.

In addition to these enormous lava flows, eruptive episodes from the Laki fissure started with explosive eruptions that blanketed more than 8,000 square km (3,089 square miles) with volcanic ash and cinders. And if you think the vog here can be bad, Laki pumped out 122 million tons of sulfur dioxide in eight months. Compare this to Kīlauea's 0.85 million tons from February to September, 2008—less than one percent of Laki's output over the same length of time. Half of the livestock in Iceland died after eating grass contaminated with fluorine from the gas plume, and 20 percent of Iceland's population starved during the famine that followed. The sulfur dioxide released led to crop failures throughout Europe and may have led to, or exacerbated, other famines in the northern hemisphere that occurred at about the same time.

USGS

There was a very good docu on this, vaguely remember it but cant find whole one now, here is a clip:



More here from the lead researcher in this.

This was PAN Europe though not just the UK the following occurred in France!



In the doomsday nature of ATS this is the only one at the moment with real and likely, to happen, besides Iran.

The science shows when the current one erupts, LAKI always follows!!!!

This is worth keeping a very very close eye on.

Elf

Quoting the whole posts because they're now a few days back.

Originally posted by alexgia
I too watch the web cam at yellowstone each day for a time. My boyfriend HATES THIS... LOL Anyway, if someone else out there has a min. it is 10:04 ET, Old faithful is on the screen but notw there is another vent behind it I do not remember seeing before. Anyone who can look and tell me if they have seen this before... Thank you... It is small and off to right of old faithful.

[edit on 17-3-2010 by alexgia]

Hello Alexgia,

Watching the cams over the years I seem to recall a vent off to the right and it's there now as I'm watching today. However, I'd expect that if there is a new vent, then there will be some reports about it before too long. All the same, that doesn't have to mean anything too startling. I know that you personally are not implying it does, but for the sake of any new readers I'd just like to say that Yellowstone is constantly undergoing changes. Most are fairly minor, but even a new vent in the region of existing ones would probably not be anything of great concern.

Originally posted by ressiv
off topic..
there was a solar eclipps jan 13 same day EQ in haiti...45 days after haiti...chili...so keep april 13 in mind....

45 days /degrees is astrology...

BTW puerto rico is very buizzy again,,was also the same before haiti quake....

Hi ressiv,

it's slightly off-topic but we have discussed quakes outside of Yellowstone before and no-one's been shot yet, as far as I know. However it looks like someone might have given you a wrong date. While the Haiti quake was on Jan 13, the annular solar eclipse was not. Refer to NASA's special page entitled Annular Solar Eclipse of 2010 January 15 for more details.

I've noted the rest of your comments because every avenue is worth exploring. There were as you say, 45 days between Jan 13 and the Chile quake on Feb 28, if we exclude those two dates themselves. If we use the same method (ie excluding start and end days), 45 days from Feb 28 would be April 15 unless I've messed up the count. So, we'll see what happens within a day or two either side of that date.

Mike