Whats going on at yellowstone?

Something I saw said that the depth on these preliminary reports is not particularly reliable.

Water flow from the Yellowstone Lake is peaking again just updated at 12:30 and it's back up over 500 CFS

Yellowstone Lake Water Flow

Something just spiked on GEE at 12:41 yellowstone time. Spiked out to 90 microns/sec.

reply to post by meagerhair

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whoa - it was 476 this morning - that has jumped! I remember thinking - well it' snot in the 500s well there is goes now -

reply to post by trusername

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Yes - I'm not getting any readings on my widget - It isn't Gee though - it's one for my mac - directly links though to USGS - etc...

I am finding something else very disturbing though. I watch these quakes everyday and have for sometime - I am in California.

There is a definite line of unusual quakes along the east edge of CA. I see them all of the time in the west along the coast - this is natural - but the ones on the other side outlining the east side of California into Nevada. Kind of creeping me out.

reply to post by beefytee

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At 12:40, when the 2.9 just happened, the streaming cam at Old Faithful was bobbing up and down quite nicely! Pretty impressive for this LaSalle boy.
Old Faithful cam

AWESOME ADD-ON! I can finally stop checking this thread so often! ; )

addons.mozilla.org...

If the mainstream media isn't reporting on this then maybe we should take it into our own hands and report it....www.ireport.com

that's the latest 2.9

Hi there,

I agree with you. Actually my humble opinion is that we have seen many periods of harmonic activity in the past several days. However, at least once when we started discussing it too deeply a "new member" appeared on the thread to tell us that no, they are not harmonics and we were mistaken. (Apparently joined ATS just to tell us that. Ain't that nice?) So, in the interest of providing solid data, I will post the same image I posted about 50 pages back, which is the Mt St Helen's Seismicity chart from May 18, 1980, with the different kinds of traces clearly marked by seismologists. Hopefully this will stop some of these "new members" from trying to tell us what is staring us in the face is not what we think it is.

Here is the image. Please right-click on it and click "View Image" to see the whole pic, as it will be truncated on the screen here:



(Original image from USGS can be accessed on this link. Image reproduced for educational purposes.)

I posted the image direct from my host server because the USGS link might not always be available.

It seems to me that what we are seeing on several helicorders now in Yellowstone is virtually identical to the "harmonics" shown on the MtSt Helen's Seismicity chart.

[edit on 2/1/09 by JustMike]

Just out of interest, you may be thinking of the Siberian Traps - this baby was a super-massive lava flow eruption covering an area of up to 7 million squsre kilometers.

Now, I'm a bit rusty on the details, so anyone feel free to correct me, but it is believed that this inconcieveably large eruption (I believe the phrase you were looking for is "mantle plume") was one of the great levellers in the history of our earth. Studies point to this taking place at the boundary between the Permian and the Triassic eras, and it is thought that so much sulfur dioxide was released that the earth was plunged into a worldwide ice age for hundreds of thousands of years. Ironically, at the same time, the amount of Carbon Dioxide realeased increased the global temperature by up to 15 degrees Celcius, and the effects of this greenhouse warming could have lasted for millions of years afterwards. Current theory suggest the ice age followed millennia of searing, desert conditions. It is believed that almost 99% of life was wiped out, and that we owe our current existence to cyanobacteria which were able to survice in stagnant, otherwise lifeless water - what little there was. They produce CO2 as a by-product and it is thought that over the millenia they produced enough to help the global temperature gradually rise back to levels where the ice sheet covering the earth was able to melt.

We owe our existence to bacteria.

Oh, and to put things in perspective, the lava flow erupted for anywhere between 500,000 and 1 million years, give or take. And it is believed that we have actually released more CO2 into the atmosphere in our hundred years' dalliance with petrochemicals than was released in the entire mantle plume period.

Now THAT is some perspective.

reply to post by spinkyboo

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can you send me a link on those calif quakes? I'm in San Francisco

and maybe this is what we were seeing on RSOE before it was blacked out

reply to post by JustMike

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EXACTLY! I would listen to an arguement that the previous "noise" we saw was not harmonic, but the last hour it is hard to deny that is harmonic. Also, this new set of "harmonics" started with a quake of notable size and has continued non-stop since then. It is as if the 3.6 opened up something allowing a flow to begin.

Thoughts?

Quick question.

What's the difference between the normal readings and the harmonic ones?

I know that the harmonic are worse by the way you guys are talking about it...

but what about it that it makes it worse?

where is TA.HI6A again? does anyone know? it is wild


is it mary lake?

It's on this regular map that I noticed it.
The problem with RSOE is that they only put up a few as actual visuals - so it is hard to determine how many and where unless you actually read the info at the bottom - but this visual at this link - although we of course get quakes to the mid and the east - does not look normal to me -

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Harmonic tremor is indicative of the movement of magma, assumed to be upwards(usually is upwards). Therefore it is a bad thing.

The harmonic tremors (rhythmic rumbling) usually mean that "something is moving" as opposed to the more normal tremors that mean "something snapped".

What is moving, where it is moving to, and what it will do when it gets there is still up for debate.

reply to post by toast317

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here's an example of normal with occasional earthquake (normal being relative this last week)

www.quake.utah.edu...

here's harmonics

www.quake.utah.edu...

look back a few posts at mt. st. helens

Ahh ok, awesome thanks for explaining that