Whats going on at yellowstone?

It's showing best HERE

A couple of smaller quakes right after it.

That depth places it close to the bottom of the magma chamber I believe

WOAH guys....I do NOT like what it showing on this seismo proir to that quake.....I am looking for a closer one.

chec it out

I have numerous channels pulled up on GEE right now, but they are very sketchy. Looks like another micro quake just occured. Perhaps this is the start of another swarm.

ETA: Everyone must be asleep. Bunch of 'popping' going on again from the NW corner....perhaps another quake about to slip out???

Good Morning and Happy Mother's Day to you too Yellowstone And Good Morning and Happy Mother's Day to the rest of you Moms out there. I guess my sleepy a$$ missed the activity last night - been fighting with the flu for the past 3 weeks :-(

Magnitude 3.3
Date-Time Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 04:32:20 UTC
Saturday, May 07, 2011 at 10:32:20 PM at epicenter

Location 44.818°N, 110.992°W
Depth 6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Region YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
Distances 19 km (12 miles) NNE (28°) from West Yellowstone, MT
33 km (20 miles) SW (222°) from Gardiner, MT
45 km (28 miles) NE (38°) from Island Park, ID
439 km (273 miles) ENE (70°) from Boise, ID
458 km (284 miles) N (9°) from Salt Lake City, UT

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles); depth +/- 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Parameters NST= 39, Nph= 39, Dmin=7 km, Rmss=0.36 sec, Gp= 36°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1
Source University of Utah Seismograph Stations

Event ID uu00006911

Source

There was a micro-swarm on the 3rd. Yesterday afternoon, I thought the swarm had started again when I saw lots of signatures. But I then looked at the weather radar and saw a storm crossing the northwest corner of the park near Hebgen Lake. So, I wasn't sure and figured it may be thunder. I'm still not sure if they're earthquakes or not.

Either way, there is definately some smaller quakes to go along with the 3.3M.

So what is this ?

Shows up to a degree on three stations...

reply to post by westcoast


It looks just like a micro-swarm that happened on April 14/11. At first I thought the Apr. 14th signatures were ice breaking up. But they were later listed as quakes. They looked very much like what is showing up today.

www.isthisthingon.org...

reply to post by Robin Marks


I agree. I had at first thought ice, even typed it out but then erased it. The signatures are just too big and widespread. After looking more closely, it shows up on several other stations, to varying degrees.

Not that it's anything too exciting...but given the 3.3 I will be keeping a closer eye on her for a bit.

I just was sent the following Utube vid, and I am wondering if this is a hoax or not.
MSNBC????????



ok it is not playing but they are saying that currently there is a MASS ANIMAL DIE OFF IB THE TENS OF THOUSANDS!!!!! Yellowstone, Montana. Wyoming. Idaho.........death toll in the 10,000 range so far




Mod edit:video tag corrected.

reply to post by theRiverGoddess


Nothing to see here. Or, I mean there. In that video. Walk away.
"Of course, they'll blame it on the harsh winter."

Of course, because it's a fact. I live in Northern Ontario. Here's an article about deer dying here.
www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com...

I'm not near Yellowstone, but on about the same latitude. Yellowstone is harsher still. Given the mountains and all. They had snowstorms yesterday. In May. The winter was so harsh the bison fled the park and were getting shot when they "trespassed" on farmer lands.

Here in Kenora, we have an overpopulation of deer. They give our moose a brain disease. If people would stop feeding the deer. And if we were lucky so that the deer population was thinned enough due to the harsh winter, we might get our moose to recover.

Nature's a bitch.

And we're not helping matters.
Recent headlines....

Yellowstone Bison on Death Row.

I wonder if all those fences around all those farms helps to kill off the deer and such. Maybe a reduction in their range has something to do with it. You think? When animals head to the valleys after retreating from their summer feeding grounds high up in the mountains, what do the find? They find their fertile valley all inhabited with stuff and they have less food.

More snow=less food.
More humans=less range.
Less range and less food=death.

It's not God's Wrath.
It's math.

www.sltrib.com...

3.1 a few minutes ago in Wyoming.
Here

reply to post by westcoast


'This' is earthquakes. That is why it shows on 3 stations.

ylt-wy-ehz-2011-129.png

I have listened to it and it is what it looks like - a series of earthquakes as far as I can tell.

Hey everybody!! I am way behind in my reading here, but i have finally put some of my photos up for you all to check out. You can see them here. I havent had time to label them, i run a computer business and work full time as a machinist. Come July 1st, im either returning to Yellowstone once again, or going to Washington state to hit the national parks there (including Mt St Helens). Depends on gas price at that time. But i bought some backcountry books last year, and really want to get into the backcountry to see something different. I did go to 2 backcountry geyser basins, youll see which ones when you see me posing with the geysers lol....

Anyways, ENJOY....any questions feel free to ask. If you look at the Mammoth hot springs pictures, then compare them to the other Yellowstone folder on there, you will note the shift in activity in just one year. Areas active in 09 were dry and gray in '10. Keeps it interesting thats for sure! Something new every year!!

reply to post by Hooptie333


Fantastic photos! Thanks for sharing! It really is just wild to think that lying under all that beauty and natural splendor lurks a giant pulsating demon made of liquid fire and brimstone!

Wow, wow WOW!!! One of our local news stations here in Salt Lake just did a fantastic story on the 10:00 PM newscast about Yellowstone. The article is up on their website but I haven't found the video yet. Perhaps by tomorrow.

He said the first super eruption at Yellowstone was 2,500 times bigger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Ash from that eruption fell over much of the American West and Midwest reaching all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Herds died on the plains. And the ash that remained in the upper atmosphere circled the globe plunging it into a volcanic winter that probably lasted years.

Here's the short version of what would happen If such an eruption happened today: The explosion and pyroclastic flow (think a tsunami of superheated gas, rock and ash) would level the park and surrounding communities. A few inches of ash would fall on Salt Lake. Add a little rainfall with that ash and some roofs would collapse. No harvest would be possible in America's bread basket. And of course, there would be that volcanic winter lasting years.

Here is where I got chills:

The result: the magma plume below Yellowstone is even bigger than first thought. The plume looks like a tilted tornado that extends out under Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. It is made up of hot and partly molten rock surging up into the earth's crust from the mantle.

Abc4.com - News Source

They also did a teaser article earlier in the day that has some good info in it, just not as "chilling" as the one above.

ABC 4 News - Yellowstone National Park Is Moving

Now THIS is interesting.

Three rapid bursts showing up in most of the park, but strongest at Old Faithful.

Hmmmm....

heard a commentator discuss near-future food shortages. I wonder; would action in the Yellowstone caldera impact food producing areas? I think it's mostly (beef) ranchland that part of the country, but Kansas and the farm belt aren't all that too far.

Well another interesting one. This one also shows up on over half the stations in the park....with a different, drawn-out sig. Doesn't look like the typical 'noise' that goes on in the park on a daily basis.

Anyone able to listen to this and give an opinion?

Originally posted by works4dhs
heard a commentator discuss near-future food shortages. I wonder; would action in the Yellowstone caldera impact food producing areas? I think it's mostly (beef) ranchland that part of the country, but Kansas and the farm belt aren't all that too far.

The entire "bread basket" of the United States is under attack right now, from Mother Nature.

We've got massive flooding with the Mississippi effecting the entire mid section of our country. On top of that, tornado's up our collective butts in too many states to list. Hurricane season is about to start next week and has been forecasted as a "bad" one. I think that's MORE than enough to effect food production and costs of all kinds!

Now if Yellowstone blows... yeah, it will wipe the United States off the map. Not to mention, more than likely toss the entire planet into an ice age that will last a couple of years. Which will be a good thing, considering the above. Perhaps the death will be faster and less painful (one can hope).

@ WC... hope one of our cohorts shows up with some more info on those. Thanks for sharing!

reply to post by westcoast


Look like quakes to me just like the last lot I listened to for you.

Bit busy right now but I will have a listen later.