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Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm: Updated
US News ^ | January 02, 2009 09:27 AM ET

Posted on 01/02/2009 8:12:18 AM PST by maquiladora

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1 posted on 01/02/2009 8:12:18 AM PST by maquiladora
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30, 2.5 mag or larger quakes in 4 days is worrisome.............


2 posted on 01/02/2009 8:16:58 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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3 posted on 01/02/2009 8:18:26 AM PST by maquiladora
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She’s gonna blow!


4 posted on 01/02/2009 8:22:13 AM PST by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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Is Joe Biden an amateur seismologist or something?

“Mark my words...”

5 posted on 01/02/2009 8:27:41 AM PST by Loyolas Mattman (Sarah Palin: America's Governor)
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To: maquiladora
It's Bush's fault.

Women and minorities will be hardest hit.

6 posted on 01/02/2009 8:30:54 AM PST by kennedy (I'm a Kennedy with no experience or qualifications too! Where do I sign up for MY Senate seat?)
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Next we’ll need to bail out the earthwquake.

After all we need to run up the tax bill as high as possible. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense.
I hear liberal papers now want a “bail out”.


7 posted on 01/02/2009 8:32:51 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Red Badger
Ok, I am going to Las Vegas in late February, do I need to worry?

BTW, as of right now I am out of the "danger zone" in mid Wisconsin.

8 posted on 01/02/2009 8:33:34 AM PST by codercpc
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That is probably correct,

I’d like to know what the condition/temp of the lake is right now but IIRC it is essentially frozen over.

From here I can’t get the webcams (grrr, grrrr)

I know it is wishfull thinking but I’m hoping that this is just a steam event but from the depth of the quakes (.4km to 3.5km) something appears to be moving, most likey magama, and it’s moving up where the lake is.

this bears watching.

r


9 posted on 01/02/2009 8:33:56 AM PST by woerm (student of history)
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To: codercpc
Ok, I am going to Las Vegas in late February, do I need to worry?

I hope you're joking (about worrying.)

10 posted on 01/02/2009 8:35:33 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: codercpc
Ok, I am going to Las Vegas in late February, do I need to worry?

Only about your money................

11 posted on 01/02/2009 8:37:11 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Loyolas Mattman

Good point. I can’t imagine Zero handling this well at all.


12 posted on 01/02/2009 8:37:16 AM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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When the geiser activity changes they will really start to worry.
13 posted on 01/02/2009 8:37:21 AM PST by Loud Mime (Things were better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not....LM)
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Well, we are due...


14 posted on 01/02/2009 8:37:22 AM PST by MarkeyD (11-4-08 For the first time I can say I am ashamed of my country.)
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Ok, not an expert on this at all, maybe someone with more knowledge on this can answer this, just looking at the chart for today so far ( http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/yml_webi.htm ) and it seems very ‘noisy’ compared to the previous days. Does that looks strange or is it because of something artifical in the background?


15 posted on 01/02/2009 8:39:17 AM PST by maquiladora
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Bump for later. If you have a ping list, please add me. All kidding aside...this is very serious.


16 posted on 01/02/2009 8:39:21 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (PA is a banana republic without the great weather to actually grow bananas.)
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To: Loud Mime

"When the geiser activity changes they will really start to worry."

I would, too..........

17 posted on 01/02/2009 8:39:29 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: maquiladora

I hope Yogi and Bubu are OK.


18 posted on 01/02/2009 8:39:53 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (1/20 Is it the new 9/11?)
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To: MarkeyD
Well, we are due...

No we're not.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/about/faq/faqactivity.php#notoverdue

Is it true that the next caldera-forming eruption of Yellowstone is overdue?

No. First of all, one cannot present recurrence intervals based on only two values. It would be statistically meaningless. But for those who insist... let's do the arithmetic. The three eruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 0.64 million years ago. The two intervals are thus 0.8 and 0.66 million years, averaging to a 0.73 million-year interval. Again, the last eruption was 0.64 million years ago, implying that we are still about 90,000 years away from the time when we might consider calling Yellowstone overdue for another caldera-forming eruption. Nevertheless, we cannot discount the possibility of another such eruption occurring some time in the future, given Yellowstone's volcanic history and the continued presence of magma beneath the Yellowstone caldera.

19 posted on 01/02/2009 8:41:09 AM PST by Strategerist
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There was a link to an animated sequence on another thread, showing the earthquakes starting under the middle of the lake, and drifting towards the north shore of the lake at present (the blue squares indicating the last day).

If a lava channel opens up, it would be better that it NOT open up under the lake, resulting in the lake contents meeting with lava resulting in a steam explosion.

20 posted on 01/02/2009 8:41:25 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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