Posted on 09/03/2017 12:30:37 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
37 quakes -one was 5.3 on the Richter scale- NE of Soda Springs, Idaho (southwest of Yellowstone) in the past 7 hours.
Close enough to be of possible concern?)
Suspicious action from a fairly quiet area.
I remember that Pinatubo was proceeded by a 7+ magnitude quake about one year earlier.
North Korea’s fault...
They have already come out and said “no concern”. Matter of fact they put the odds of an eruption at 1 to 766,000. I wish they would let me take that bet. Here’s my dollar. More apt to win this than the lottery.
This started before the Nork event. We’d better blame Harvey...or just fall back to the old reliable “Bush did it”
Wonder why this is not the last sentence in the article ——> If it blows, it blows and no man, woman, or child can prevent or predict.
Do you have a link to where the USGS said it is of no concern? Because, strangely, they make no mention at all, that I can find, of this most recent activity on their Yellowstone-devoted page.
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/
My apology ... is not an article
I was thinking, maybe the Norks smuggled a nuke and dropped it into the Morning Glory pool....
YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO OBSERVATORY MONTHLY UPDATE
U.S. Geological Survey
Friday, September 1, 2017, 2:13 PM MDT (Friday, September 1, 2017, 20:13 UTC)
YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO (VNUM #325010)
44°25’48” N 110°40’12” W, Summit Elevation 9203 ft (2805 m)
Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Current Aviation Color Code: GREEN
Seismicity
During August 2017, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, reports 1029 earthquakes were located in the Yellowstone National Park (YNP) region. The largest event was a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.3 on August 20, at 09:00 PM MDT, located about 10 miles north of West Yellowstone, MT, where the earthquake was reported felt. This earthquake is part of a continued energetic sequence in the same area that began on June 12.
August seismicity in Yellowstone was marked by the ongoing earthquake activity ~six miles north of West Yellowstone, MT, where an energetic swarm added an additional 894 locatable earthquakes to the 475 in July and 1028 earthquakes in June. The swarm includes the largest event of the month on August 20 (magnitude 3.3).
Swarm activity for August consists of five earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range and 69 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range. Including the events from the prior two monthly reports beginning on June 12, total swarm seismicity includes one earthquake of magnitude 4.4, 12 in the magnitude 3 range, and 181 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range. There are potentially thousands of additional earthquakes visible on the webicorders that cannot be located because they are too small or overlap another event, and they are not included in these numbers.
Additionally, August 2017 seismicity contained two separate small earthquake swarms
1) A small series of 34 earthquakes occurred August 14-18. The largest earthquake in the series (magnitude 2.7) occurred on August 14, 08:04 AM MDT, located nine miles north northeast of Old Faithful, WY.
2) A small series of 22 earthquakes occurred August 19 and 20. The largest earthquake in the series (magnitude 1.9) occurred August 19, 10:04 PM MDT, located 10 miles south of West Thumb, WY.
Earthquake sequences like these are common and account for roughly 50% of the total seismicity in the Yellowstone region.
Yellowstone earthquake activity is currently at elevated levels compared with typical background activity.
Ground deformation
Monitored locations within the Yellowstone Caldera show little change this month. Uplift north of the caldera, centered near the Norris Geyser Basin, continues at a low rate (a few millimeters per month), similar to what has been occurring since late 2015. Current deformation patterns at Yellowstone remain within historical norms.
An example of GPS data can be found at http://www.unavco.org/instrumentation/networks/status/pbo/data/WLWY (click on Static Plots / Cleaned)
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) provides long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake activity in the Yellowstone National Park region. Yellowstone is the site of the largest and most diverse collection of natural thermal features in the world and the first National Park. YVO is one of the five USGS Volcano Observatories that monitor volcanoes within the United States for science and public safety.
YVO Member agencies: USGS, Yellowstone National Park, University of Utah, University of Wyoming, UNAVCO, Inc., Wyoming State Geological Survey, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Idaho Geological Survey
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Michael Poland, Scientist-in-Charge
mpoland@usgs.gov
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/elevated.html
Small earthquakes around fault zones can be a good thing, relieving pressure so as not to have a huge one happen.
Small earthquakes around volcanic activity like at Yellowstone can be a very ominous thing. Lava building up pressure and needing to vent at some point. Think Mt St. Helens.
If you want a much better sense of what is happening around the globe with earthquakes, check out a guy on Youtube called “Dutchsinse”. He has a daily report in 3D, cross checking all quakes against volcanos and seismic shifts, and does a hell of a better job explaining and predicting the quakes than anyone else.
Not surprisingly, the USGS has been known to not report quakes, or to under-report quakes, or to downplay the seriousness of quakes.
So then, this recent activity would be on top of the activity described below from June 2017, and of course from the July-Aug that I posted previously.
Yellowstone supervolcano has been hit by a series of earthquakes, with more 400 recorded since June 12. The latest was recorded on Monday, June 19, with a magnitude 3 earthquake striking 8.6 miles north northeast of West Yellowstone, Montana.
The swarm began last week, and on June 15 saw a magnitude 4.5 earthquake take place in Yellowstone National Park. “The epicenter of the shock was located in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north-northeast of the town of West Yellowstone, Montana,” scientists from the University of Utah, which monitors Yellowstone Volcano, said in a statement.
“The earthquake was [reportedly] felt in the towns of West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana, in Yellowstone National Park, and elsewhere in the surrounding region.” ...”
http://www.newsweek.com/yellowstone-supervolcano-earthquake-swarm-eruption-risk-627189
Soda Springs, ID is about 135 miles from Yellowstone. Seems a fair distance away to me.
Just checked the USGS site and there are 41 now. That is an UGLY cluster of quakes. Wonder what’s going on.
Probably by the time we know what is going on it will not matter
I don’t know how accurate is the mapping of the lava pool under Yellowstone. I suspected that an undetected ‘finger’ could be seeking a way to the surface. This swarm was sudden and not similar to aftershocks. The USGS live map showed them to be spread out over a mid-sized area...As though they were independently triggrered.
I just hope they’re relieving pressure rather than building up to something large.
Should have turned the whole area into numerous power generation facilities long ago
The caldera is fairly large and possibly irregularly shaped. The quake in Baguio which ‘triggered’ Pinatubo is about 90 miles distant, and there was a delay of nearly a year from trigger to eruption. So this may be just an early warning. Wish I knew!
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