Yellowstone earthquake swarm continues into third day, intensifies

Source: Denver Post

The swarm of earthquakes that started Sunday at Yellowstone National Park continued this morning with the magnitude of the tremors increasing last night and today.

At 9:48 a.m. today, a magnitude 3.3 tremor was recorded. A magnitude 3.3 tremor was also recorded at 8:39 p.m. Monday night followed by a magnitude 3.0 earthquake at 9:42 p.m. Monday. Prior to the 3.3 at 9:48 a.m., the park had seen tremors of 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 this morning.

As of 9:20 a.m. today, 424 earthquakes had been recorded in the swarm, according to Jamie Farrell, a doctoral student in geophysics at the University of Utah, which operates more than two dozen earthquake recording stations in the park.

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Prof. Robert B. Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah and one of the leading experts on earthquake and volcanic activity at Yellowstone, said that the activity is a "notable swarm."

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_14221601

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Details of the earthquakes here: http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

This could get ugly..

Perhaps there's more to this 2012 stuff after all.

since the earthquake in Haiti.

especially in the Carribean area, SA and central/west US. I was thinking of downloading some quake data from USGS and doing a quick analysis to see if its true.

Please keep us informed! DU needs FACTS!

I have Equake from firefox on my toolbar and it seems to me that there are quite a bit more quakes than usual. I don't like that yellowstone is perking up.

from: http://wp.me/pAw0L-90

Coincidence? You be the judge.

due to faults, earthquakes, floods and volcanoes. Now people settle on top of faults, in the ocean surge zone, flood plains and below volcanoes and think, "It won't happen to me."

clicks over, they predicted significant events to precede it. That doesn't mean world-ending things. Just significant things. December 22, 2012 will happen. There will probably be some weird stuff leading up to it.

Massive Medicine Wheel Ceremony

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-2.html

That's one big caldera over a big hot spot. But, then, that means that Yellowstone is often active, doing a lot of shaking, so not necessarily ready to blow big.

--d!

If everything was quiet then I would be much more concerned.

of these fault lines would it?:tinfoilhat: Wheres the dick? :-)

:spray: :rofl:

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...get your supplies together kiddies...

Meanwhile, all's quiet, too quiet, on the African-Eurasian plate boundary here...

Where's Pat Robertscum now?

We asked for it when we made that pact with Ranger Hal?

............Yogi was gay and that's why god struck Yellowstone.

I think he is the one that pissed God off.

:sarcasm:

Which would explain the name.

I think they all made a pact with the devil so they could have more picnic baskets!
They are nothing but tourist terrorists anyways!
Probably magic brownies in those picnic baskets too!

I presume most of them are between 3.0 and 4.0, as here.

If this swarm is generating 3.0 - 4.0 tremors, that is unusually strong.

Thanks.

Most of the earthquakes are very small. To have this many 3+ quakes at Yellowstone bears noting. I have followed this site for years:
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/

Here's the closeup for Yellowstone: http://quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

This happens all the time there.

oh well, back to plotting the end of the world as we know it. :::humming merrily:::

can I have your car? Mine needs a new heater fan :)

I am willing to sign a contract that I will take care of your kids, dogs cats, spouse and/or grandparents if you rapture for a small fee every month ...up until the time you rapture..at which time I shall consider you paid in full. (and your contract will have to be canceled at that time due to pre-existing conditions. :) )

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

:)

If so, it's a genius idea!

But it's hard to say. I agree about it being a genius idea, though!

Too bad....oh well :)
But the kids, spouse and grandparents is still a great offer :)

my gonna-burn-in-hell non-believer kids. It's all their father's fault! ;)

:shrug: It's always something..... Is it time for me us to duck?

Aside from the huge impact it would have on the entire planet, it makes me sad to think of the destruction of that beautiful landscape & all the endangered species that have refuge there.

:-(

:wow:

It's all over, baby blue.

when the Yellowstone super volcano goes off. Most all of the U.S. from heat and volcanic dust suffocation, and the rest of the globe from starvation. And it is already 40,000 years overdue for it's next eruption. Haiti will look like a day at the beach when Yellowstone blows.

We had the same thing a few months ago. It meant nothing then, and it means nothing now.

Yellowstone is a very active (and huge) earthquake zone. This "notable swarm" is meaningless.

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but that sounds like what you are implying, that there is no chances that Yellowstone will ever blow, ever again.

To do that would to be simply ignorant of geology. I sure nobody predicted the magnitude of Mt St Helens until it happened. Same with the volcano in Montserrat. Supervolcanoes DO exist and Yellowstone is one of them. That is an established fact. True, it may not blow in the near future, it may not blow in the next 50K years. But it certainly does have the potential to do so at anytime, even next week. And when it does, the nightmare scenarios described will certainly come to pass. To acknowledge that fact is not alarmist. For somebody to get panicked about that fact is alarmist, though. If it indeed happens there not a damned thing anybody (individual or government) will be able to do to prevent it. So my attitude is why worry over something that one has no control over? I won't live my life in fear of what ifs, be they supervolcanoes or terrorists. However, I think the speculation about the effects of a supervolcano are interesting and gives people perspective about the magnitude of these phenomena in relation to other events like regular volcanoes.

due to the migration of the caldera from an area of thinner crust to an area with thicker crust. National Geographic had a really good article on it in 2009.

"So, the colossal question: Is it going to blow again? Some kind of eruption—perhaps a modest one like Mount Pinatubo's in the Philippines, which killed 800 people in 1991—is highly likely at some point. The odds of a full, caldera-forming eruption—a cataclysm that could kill untold thousands of people and plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter—are anyone's guess; it could happen in our lifetimes, or 100,000 years or more from now, or perhaps never. Bob Christian­sen, now retired, suspects the supervolcano may be safely bottled up. For most of its history, the Yellowstone hot spot has formed calderas in the thin crust of the Basin and Range area of the American West. Now the hot spot is lodged beneath a much thicker crust at the crest of the Rockies.

"I think that the system has more or less equilibrated itself," says Christian­sen. Then he quickly adds, "But that's an interpretation that would not stand up in court."

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/yellowstone/achenbach-text/1

:popcorn:

The latest one at 3.4 very late last night.

http://www.seis.utah.edu/recenteqs/Maps/111-44.html

2012 is close....

then it would be just about right to thin our pesky ever present wolf population back down to a manageable number :), mind ya it only need be a large enough quake to open a large hole and swallow the wolves and a few griz, then it could close back up. but not large enough to shake anything in cody or jackson

this is in a less likely spot for a super-eruption, appears to be tectonic rather than magmatic in nature, and doesn't have those disturbing seismograms which looked suspiciosuly like harmonic tremor. The one last year (late Dec. 2008-early Jan 2009 to be exact) actually had me concerned. This one? Meh.

Thanks for the post, Turborama.