Whats going on at yellowstone?

reply to post by PuterMan


Odds are, you are correct. (I hope so!!)

It'll be interesting though to see if this just settles and that's it, or if it progresses into another swarm! Either way, it is very interesting to watch.

Originally posted by PuterMan

edit on 12/9/2010 by PuterMan because: Because I just LOVE the little green box. I can't get enough of the edit box. it is

and can take icons and is much abused by those who do not lovingly fill it in.

Every edit should be crafted with care and consideration and should be meaningless meaningful.

edit on 12/9/2010 by PuterMan because: OMG someone just pointed out that it is not a green box it is a black box. Does this mean that when the post crashes we can sift through the wreckage, find the black edit box and determine what went wrong? Does it have a posting pit recording device I wonder? Note to self: It is a black box with green writing, not a green box.

I just had to post and tell you that your edits made me chuckle.
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Whoaaa......big one just now on GEE. I'll guess between 3.5 and 4.5!

Edit to add:

USGS just listed it as a 3.4

Here is a pic of it on GEE:

reply to post by westcoast


West, nice call on the mag. But why you monitoring the WY network for this, when that's way north of the action and they are short period stations which as you can see will saturate out?

Choose the IW network, and load up IW.REDW, SNOW and LOHW... They are broadband, and are handling these quakes easy with no saturation. And they are much closer to the action.

Speaking of action, we had settled down for a bit (as is typical) but now there appears to be more coming.

reply to post by TrueAmerican


Thanks for the stations...I was trying to find them but couldn't get any to load up. I had to switch the search to the broadband!

Yup, they are still hoppin! Interesting.....

Oh, BTW the last quake was updated to a 3.6 mag.

i've make a screenshot.

reply to post by Austria


Ha! Cool...I don't even remember that.

GEE is still bouncin....saw one a bit ago that looked closer to the park than the 4.0 quake locations. It wasn't big enough to make the automatic list though, so I supose we'll see it in ohhhh two or three days?


Now THIS is a messy graph!!

So, are we getting exited again? 4 quakes in the same area. 2+ to 4+. Happy to notice that you guys are starting to take quakes outside Yellowstone itself serious.
There was several quakes in the same area a month or two in 1985, before the start of the largest recorded earthquake swarm in Yellowstone in the fall of 1985 in the northwest rim of the caldera. So, Maybe we now are in for a new ride within the caldera again?

Anyway, this quakes are south of Teton, but in my opinion still connected to the "plume".
Please have a look at some quakes even closer to the caldera itself.

M 2.5, western Montana

Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 05:28:34 UTC
Monday, September 6, 2010 11:28:34 PM at epicenter
Depth: 11.70 km (7.27 mi)

and

M 3.3, western Montana

Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:08:26 UTC
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 04:08:26 AM at epicenter
Depth: 12.00 km (7.46 mi)

Let me add a couple of quakes inside the caldera itself when I'm on to it.

M 1.6, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 15:07:37 UTC
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 09:07:37 AM at epicenter
Depth: 6.60 km (4.10 mi)

and

M 1.3, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Date: Monday, September 6, 2010 12:50:51 UTC
Monday, September 6, 2010 06:50:51 AM at epicenter
Depth: 1.90 km (1.18 mi)

let me guess.. the WY eq's are situated in an older caldera of the yelly hotspot?
can it be related to the intensifieng of activity round Mnt st helens /rainier ??

www.abovetopsecret.com...

magma moving ????

reply to post by ReginaAdonnaAaron


Agreed!!! And wouldnt it be funny one day to log on only to find a U2U in the inbox that is giving you an applause for your edit??? LOL! Funny funny, now back to the thread, I always check when I see it on the main page...

Can it be that the rock is too hard on the chamber. Therefore, the magma comes out on the sides??

In Wyoming...

reply to post by Austria


The newest info is indicating that there IS a connection to at least the past path of the present chamber and the Pacific Northwest.

I don't think it too far a stretch of the imagination to suggest the activity of these regions be related in some way. Especially these very odd deep tremors along the coast.

Woahhhhhh.....now what do we have HERE?


This shows up on most of the seismos in the park, BTW, but is stronger at the above.


Lookin like something bigger maybe in UTAH, but it's not showing up on USGS?? Take a look at THIS

reply to post by westcoast


The instruments are picking up the 5.4 in CA/MX.

reply to post by Anmarie96


DUH...I shouldn't post when I'm tired.


Although, I just gotta say they are now calling it a 5.0, so I am kinda surprised it showed up so strong.

reply to post by Roald


Not sure if anyone has seen this already, but I live in Casper, WY and this is what the local news has to say about the quakes. ....


GREEN RIVER -- Three earthquakes shook parts of northern Lincoln County on Sunday afternoon and evening, according to the Wyoming State Geological Survey.

The tremblers happened within hours of each other and were felt by residents in Jackson, Lander, Dubois, Thayne, Bedford, Afton, Alpine and other small communities in western Wyoming, officials said.

Survey geologists said one injury was reported when a retired firefighter was thrown from his horse when it spooked during a trembler. He was taken to the Jackson hospital. There was no word on his condition.

Geologist Seth Wittke said agency personnel are monitoring the area to gather any additional information about Sunday's quakes.

"This wasn't a real big (shaker) ... compared to the ones that happened in the Upper Gros Ventre Valley about a month ago in the area," Wittke said in a phone interview Monday.

A series of quakes struck the Jackson area in Teton County in early August. Those quakes also occurred within hours of each other.

"The last couple of events including Sunday's have been fairly closely spaced, but that's not necessarily indicative of earthquakes in Wyoming," he said.

"They can happen one at a time ... or eight or nine in a row like in Kelly or like the three we had Sunday," said Wittke.

The first quake Sunday, of 4.1 magnitude, occurred at approximately 2:10 p.m. at a depth of 3.1 miles.

The event was located 25 miles south-southeast of Jackson and 30 miles north-northeast of Afton, near Willow Creek.

Wittke said a second earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 struck around 4:20 p.m. at a depth of approximately 4.3 miles. The quake was located about 25 miles south of Jackson and 30 miles north-northeast of Afton along the Little Greys River.

At 8:43 p.m., a third earthquake measuring 3.6 was located 25 miles south of Jackson and 30 miles northeast of Afton, near the McCain Guard Station.

The area is in the heart of the seismically active "Wyoming Overthrust Belt," where earthquakes are common occurrences. The area includes entire formations of rock that are slowly being altered and deformed, resulting in numerous active faults.

Wittke said it is likely that similar earthquakes could happen again in the area.

The earthquakes marked the second significant seismic event that has occurred in western Wyoming this summer.

On Aug. 4, a series of nine rapid earthquakes, the strongest measuring 4.8, occurred in the Teton County area near Kelly, at a site between Jackson and Dubois.

The main quake in that event was felt in Teton, Park, Sweetwater, Sublette and Lincoln counties.

Wittke said Sunday's earthquakes were not related to the earlier Teton County events. "They're in a completely different area and they're unrelated for the most part," he said.

Numerous magnitude 2.0 or greater earthquakes have been recorded in Lincoln County dating back to 1915, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. Most were relatively small magnitude events and subsequently not felt.

Prior to Sunday, the county's most recent seismic activity occurred on March 23, 2002, when a magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported approximately 5 miles northeast of Alpine.

Intensity levels

Wittke said the first 4.1 magnitude event Sunday was felt as intensity level 3 in Thayne, Bedford and Alpine, and as intensity level 2 in numerous other locations.

He said the intensity levels -- which run from 1-10, with 10 being the most extreme -- are based on "felt" reports submitted to the agency through its online reporting program.

"People fill out a form on the site and based on how they answer the questions, we assign it an intensity ... so those numbers come from the people that experience the shaking themselves reporting online to us," said Wittke.

By late Monday afternoon, 179 people had filled out response surveys from as far away as Blackfoot, Idaho.

Intensities from 2-3 are listed as including weak shaking, but no damage.

Contact southwest Wyoming bureau reporter Jeff Gearino at (307) 875-5359 or [email protected]

Participate

The Wyoming State Geological Survey asks residents to participate in the "Did You Feel It" program if they felt ground motions and/or experienced damage related to Sunday's earthquakes in northern Lincoln County. Go to earthquake.usgs.gov... for more information.

reply to post by bowski3502


Pretty scary stuff.... They play it off as a normal occurance....

reply to post by bowski3502
Well ,. it is kinda normal, they do live in a seismic region.
Now if we felt one in Wisconsin, then Start runnin around in circles...

What, no mention of this yet???!!!

Magnitude 3.6
Date-Time Monday, September 20, 2010 at 00:47:22 UTC
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 06:47:22 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 43.597°N, 110.416°W
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region WYOMING
Distances 30 km (20 miles) ENE of Jackson, Wyoming
65 km (40 miles) W of Dubois, Wyoming
95 km (60 miles) NNW of Pinedale, Wyoming
535 km (335 miles) WNW of CHEYENNE, Wyoming

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5 km (3.1 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 34, Nph= 37, Dmin=31.2 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Gp= 40°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010bkae


Yes, I realize it is outside the park, but closer than the ones last week, just south of the park.

I'll be curious to see if this leads to more like the last round or if we will see it echoed in the park.

USGS

wats up with the northern rimm of the caldera...

moore activiy just before 8.00MST at YMV www.quake.utah.edu...
and YSB simoultanesly www.quake.utah.edu...
does it have to do with the spike on YFT south rimm www.quake.utah.edu...