Yellowstone earthquake swarm becomes one of the biggest on record with 2,300 quakes since June 2017

Strange Sounds - ^ | Sep 3, 2017

[BenLurkin]

The ongoing swarm at Yellowstone National Park is now one of the longest and largest on record.

The largest swarm ever recorded was in October 1985; it lasted for three months and included more than 3,000 earthquakes. There was another large swarm in 2010, when more than 2,000 events were recorded over a month.

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As of August 30, 2,357 earthquakes had been recorded. The most powerful in recent weeks was magnitude 3.3; it took place on August 21. The most powerful in the current swarm was a magnitude 4.4, which was recorded on June 15.

Yellowstone has had dozens of these sorts of earthquake swarms in the last 150 years it’s been visited. The last volcanic eruption within the caldera was 70,000 years ago. For magma to reach the surface, a new vent needs to be created, which requires a lot of intense geological activity.

USGS would need to see considerably more and larger earthquakes, combined with contemporaneous ground deformation, steam explosions and changes in gas and heat discharge, prior to moving the alert level.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've seen at least one documentary (Science Channel,most likely) that said that Yellowstone is nothing less than a huge caldera that has,in the distant past,erupted in a way that affected much of North America.It was also claimed that it's not a matter of if,but *when*,that very same thing will happen again.

[upchuck]

Best part:

Indeed NASA is planning to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting by DRILLING INTO IT to release heat from it. Lol sometimes I really believe they are some kinds of ALIENS.

But now USGS is asking the space agency to back off from its plan, as it could actually backfire and trigger an eruption that would induce a deadly nuclear winter with humans wiped out in just a few months from starvation.

[Jeff Chandler]

an eruption that would induce a deadly nuclear winter with humans wiped out in just a few months from starvation.

I hate it when that happens.

[Reily]

Should this be USGS’s call & job if actually workable & necessary. NASA is playing way outside their lane on this!

[ComputerGuy]

Fresh off its rousing successes in the area of muslim outreach, NASA now turns its attention to taming a super volcano.

[dfwgator]

I hope it happens soon, so I won’t have to endure watching the Gators play offense anymore.

[BenLurkin]

If you’re talking about yesterday, they were up against a really good Michigan team.

[dfwgator]

I know Michigan is good, but they just looked like a team that never saw a football before, and it’s been going on at UF since Tebow left.

[dfwgator]

Also a Michigan team that had the fewest returning starters of any FBS team.

[Huskrrrr]

I’d love to hear the environmentalists take on the NASA proposal.

[DuncanWaring]

Women and minorities hardest hit!

[foundedonpurpose]

Well said!

[DownInFlames]

Aka Crack in the World

[SaxxonWoods]

“The ongoing swarm at Yellowstone National Park is now one of the longest and largest on record.”

So, the prior longer and larger ones did nothing. Good to know.

[foundedonpurpose]

Except it just got hit by a 4.3 and a large swarm.

https://www.twitch.tv/dutchsinseofficial

[Vinnie]

Indeed NASA is planning to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting by DRILLING INTO IT to release heat from it.

They tried something similar in Indonesia. An oil exploration well .
All they got was boiling mud shooting out, and AFAIK it's still spewing. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/mud-eruption-indonesia-disaster-drilling-quake_n_3634361.html

[Vinnie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/mud-eruption-indonesia-disaster-drilling-quake_n_3634361.html

[foundedonpurpose]

Can we have the environmentalists dump the cold water into the lava.

Since the magma chamber takes up portions of multiple states. Just wondering where they will start.

[null and void]

I’m not seeing the down side </progressive>