Quake Watch 2013

It won't work for me!!!
I haven't been able to get into anything there!

All that shows up is a list of a few recent quakes on the far left & the depths on the far right?!

When I click above & try to open it, it says open or save.
But when I try, all I get is a little clump of text!
When I try to do it a different way, it says it can't open it, that it's a corrupt file!

Ahhh! Any suggestions??? Have a link???
WOQ

I was wondering if there was something out there which showed us visually the rise and fall of the Yellowstone caldera. (or any other area - such as Bayou Corne - for that matter)

I would be interested in a project to (roughly) try and show this rise and fall and possibly plotting the earthquakes on it too.

Obviously the first thing we need is the raw data but where would I find the raw data on heights of the caldera? I would need this data in numbers rather than graphs obviously.

Somehow I suspect it would all be done from satellite but whether the raw data is available or whether it is "sensitive" and under the National Security blackout, I dont know.

if anyone has any ideas or suggestions?

It might shed some light on Dianec's post earlier where her house level moved.

reply to post by wasobservingquietly


Try this link: earthquake.usgs.gov...
Up at the top right of the page clicking on the little green check marks next to List, Map, Options opens & closes them. If you don't see a green check next to them then click directly on Map & Options and a green check will appear.
On Map "Zoom to down arrow" lets you choose location.

Option filters are plenty & easy to change. Play around with these option settings.
Also found a help link for the new format: earthquake.usgs.gov...
Hope this helps.

Originally posted by SeekingDepth
All options seem to update very fast & they have the satellite views back.

Sweet.
I'm glad they also added the following option:

Only List Earthquakes Shown on Map

I'm certain I wasn't the only person to request that during the past few weeks.





reply to post by qmantoo

Qmantoo, you can get the GPS data from several different places--it's definitely not hidden.

To just see what is going on in graphic form, USGS has data updated nightly here.

You can also reach this GPS data from the recent earthquake map.
Just right click the USGS logo on the top left of the screen, and then choose to 'open in a new tab'.
Across the top of the new page that loads (Earthquake Hazards Program), you'll see 'Monitoring'--click that. Now scroll down toward the bottom, and click the 'Crustal Deformation Monitoring' link.
Finally, the 3rd link down is 'Global Positioning System (GPS) Monitoring.
Now just click one of the yellow campaigns (Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, etc). You can now click on any station to see it's position over time compared with a fixed North America, relative to it's region, etc.

I forgot the YVO Monitoring page. The black triangles are for seismometers and the blue stars show the GPS stations.

Or, you can use UNAVCO real-time data. From this page you can view real-time data, download data (instructions to do so are on the page), etc. The trick with their map, is that there is data available for many, many more stations than those shown on their map.
For example, if you zoom into the Yellowstone area, it only shows 7 stations. But click one, and the page that loads shows over 20 stations (2 are out of commission at the moment).

Have fun exploring.

reply to post by SeekingDepth


Thanks.
I don't get any green arrows, but I got the list, map, options feature.

The list is still scrunched to the left & right sides,
with a vast white wasteland in the middle!
They're not in columns & no latitudes or longitudes given!
Maybe it's my computer, but I never had trouble with the old format?

Sigh!!!
I guess this old brain just doesn't like change!!!
The new one seems like a lot of clicking around,
while the old way was simple, quick & a lot less hassle!

It looks like the 4.5's + are a little bolder, but the location names aren't.
And they aren't in easy to read columns!
I hope the 6 + will still be in red!
It looks like somebody just typed it on a typewriter!

This way will take more time & effort to try & read it,
& I'm still afraid I will overlook something.


Just listen to me!
I'm not a whiner or complainer...really!!!
At least up 'til now! Sigh............

Thanks USGS for taking a lot of the enjoyment out of watching quakes for me!!!
It's fine to add features....IF you don't have to take away other ones!
If it ain't broke...don't fix it..eh!
Rant over I guess...won't I be embarrassed if it is just my computer?!
WOQ

reply to post by Dianec


This can happen, and sometimes quite rapidly, when there is a change in the sub foundation structure with regard to either drying out or saturation.

If you have had a particularly wet/dry/cold/hot period this may be the cause.

Apologies, I see NiteNGale2 said pretty much the same thing.

reply to post by wasobservingquietly


Click on any of these for a larger image

Hope that helps. u2u me if that does not work.

Like you I hate change!

Originally posted by mrsdudara
Hello, I dont typically post anymore, BUT there IS something going on and I would love for you technologically savy people to look further into especially after that report from the person in Montana. And dont roll your eyes when I say Yellowstone either. LOL I've dont that a lot in my past, rolling eyes at people shouting YELLOWSTONE. Im not a geologist, but watching geological activity is a hobby of mine and has been for over a decade now. The Island Park Caldera is of serious concern to me now. Over the past week not only has it been rumbling, it has taken a pattern. Quakes are getting stronger and closer to the surface. How so? A week ago they were rumbling at 54km below the surface swarms of 1.? about 20 a day. We are now between 8 and 10km with a 2.0, 3.0, 3.6 and a 4.2 in the past day and a half not to mention the 1 and 2's inbetween. Consistantly getting more and more shallow every day. A few of the hotsprings in the area are rumbling 0.0km.

The last time Yellowstone got mouthy and that was just a swarm not like this one.. they started pulling info. We all had a heck of a time getting anything because the typical servers were down.

As I said, Im usually the eye roller of the bunch when it comes to Yellowstone, but I REALLY think people need to pay attention to this.

The real question is does the data, or as the American scientists would say do the data (because they do not understand that data is a singular noun), fit the perceptions?

Click for the bigger picture

It would seem not, but then I am working on a set of data I have produced using these criteria, for a period of the last 30 days, magnitude 1.0 upwards, USGS sourced.



If you have other data that says otherwise, or if I have misunderstood what you were saying, please let me know.


ETA: Just in case I double checked with the ANSS Catalog Search.

Your search parameters are:

catalog=ANSS
start_time=2013/04/09,00:00:00
end_time=2013/05/09,12:31:20
minimum_latitude=44.1023
maximum_latitude=45.1085
minimum_longitude=-111.1074
maximum_longitude=-109.98
minimum_magnitude=-1
maximum_magnitude=10
event_type=E

This gave nearly double the number of events as I entered -1 as the lowest magnitude. The results are the same.

Click for the bigger picture

In addition here are the magnitudes from ANSS. I don't actually see a Mag 4.2. The largest they have is 3.05

Click for the bigger picture

reply to post by PuterMan


Options doesn't work for me at all. Lets me see them but doesn't allow for any changes.
Guess I'll wait and see if USGS fixes their problems.

reply to post by PuterMan


That was fantastic. I could never get my computer to give me a graph like that, but I dont know how to ask it to either. I was going off the usgs data specifically on the Island Park Caldera. Yellowstone itself didnt show much more than the normal tremblings. It was the RSOE site that had flagged it for activity that had me looking into it. The information for that area were almost unnatural in how it went on a steady path up twards the surface. It went from 54km to 8km in a week, which does not match your graph. Yellowstone matches your graph, though. I know Island park caldera is part of the whole, but its readings were different. I wish I could have done a screen shot and posted it on here, but im just no good at it. I hope you can find what Im talking about. Either way it seemed to have stopped on the 7th, but one in California picked up where it left off, though it does not have the pattern the other had. It was really something to watch, Ive never seen a straight upward climb like that before. The only pattern Ive ever noticed on a volcano area was rhythmicly. I hope you can find what I was talking about.

Reykjanes Peninsula and South of Iceland

2013-05-10 01:06:10, 4.1, 63.75°N, 22.68°W, 10, A, Iceland Region
2013-05-09 19:20:44, 4.4, 63.87°N, 22.34°W, 10, A, Iceland Region
2013-05-09 18:06:04, 4.0, 63.31°N, 21.21°W, 10, A, Iceland Region
2013-05-09 17:10:23, 4.1, 63.80°N, 23.16°W, 10, M, Iceland Region
2013-05-09 10:49:27, 4.1, 63.83°N, 22.89°W, 10, M, Iceland Region
source:gfz

I've re-jigged my Iceland format to go below 0 magnitude.
This is preparation to do the same for Yellowstone.
Probably only of interest to the purists.
I've changed from Map to Terrain for April, shows the extra 640

Uh... I hate the new format at the USGS.. the old way was simple, and in 2 clicks, you had all the info you needed.. now you gotta scroll around, click 10 times, then try to find the right one, and open it..

I agree, it wasn't broke.. more tax payers money wasted for no good reason..

further to post by muzzy

Icelandic Meteorological Office have six mag 4's since 09/05 10:49UTC at the Reykjaneshryggur volcanic system off the SW tip of Iceland.
Interactive map
my Iceland graph for May shows the upkick.
Its a sure sign of an eruption (multiple 4's)

reply to post by Pharyax

Agreed.
Makes you wonder if there haven't been kick-backs paid by the i-phone manufacturers to USGS, that is what these changes are all about, compatibility with W8 and phones.

www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ekstrom/Research/SWD/current/RADB_SWD_grd.html

2013 5 9 19 50 16.0 -37.25 77.75 33.0 5.3 MID-INDIAN RIDGE

earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/data/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/NWAO_24hr.html

earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/data/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/CTAO_24hr.html

reply to post by wujotvowujotvowujotvo

Interesting how long it took for the shock wave to travel across/under the Australian continent, from memory Narrogin is in WA and CT in QLD., lost a bit of its edge on the way too.

something for the Yellowstoners

I've redone YS for 2013 in the Hierro/Iceland style, with map and graph for each month.
Yellowstone Tab at top has the old previous 2011and 2012 pages under it.
Apologies to anyone who bookmarked the old url addresses, that is a USGS trick, change the address so you can't find the page
volcanictremor.wordpress.com...

I'll probably duplicate it to eqarchives as well.

M6.2 - 85km ESE of Minab, Iran

Event Time
2013-05-11 02:08:14 UTC
2013-05-11 06:38:14 UTC+04:30 at epicenter
2013-05-10 22:08:14 UTC-04:00 system time
Location
26.784°N 57.841°E depth=36.4km (22.6mi)

Nearby Cities
85km (53mi) ESE of Minab, Iran
157km (98mi) E of Qeshm, Iran
161km (100mi) ESE of Bandar 'Abbas, Iran
172km (107mi) ENE of Khasab, Oman
359km (223mi) NNW of Muscat, Oman


4.5
80km ESE of Minab, Iran
2013-05-10 22:32:45-04:0026.4 km deep
4.6
96km ESE of Minab, Iran
2013-05-10 22:29:46-04:0035.0 km deep
6.2
85km ESE of Minab, Iran
2013-05-10 22:08:14-04:0036.4 km deep

reply to post by kennvideo


Quick posting! Looks like Minab is the closest city, has close to 80,000 people. Not a lot of modern design, hope they are ok there.

Peace

reply to post by Pharyax


I sent an e-mail to USGS asking if they couldn't keep some of the old format.
Not that it will do any good! Everything I liked about it & used every day is gone!
I haven't been this disappointed about anything since I found out about Santa!

I was hoping at least the 6's + would still be in red....NOT!
Waited until there finally was one just to see.
Even the 4.5's + aren't much bolder than the lesser ones.
A much less user friendly font.
The other list was so easy for my old eyes to skim in a hurry!
WOQ