Originally posted by severdsoul
reply to post by rigel434

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Unless you have to drive in it like i do, they are not taking to good care of their roads.

I was watching the fox teaser earlier and they were showing footage of open lava pits, not sure if it was from YS or some where else..
They sure are taking their time getting to the story , i gota get to bed, been a long night at work.

BTW Kudo's to everyone for the great work, i have learned a LOT reading this thread, go to YS about once a year, and being this close i stay on top of this thread, you guys get news and info before anyone.

But therory, i read the other day that the sun switched the magnetic polar fields, South is not north, could this be why we are having so much activity?
hold 2 magnets opposite and you will see what i mean, how long before earth flips, and what effect of the reverse poles going to have?

Originally posted by JustMike
reply to post by jwstarry

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You are quite right. Quakes in the region where you live are pretty rare animals indeed. I did a search of the NEIC database for the period 01/01/99 to 12/31/2008 for all quakes in a 200-mile radius (320 km) of Harrisburg and the list shows just 44 events,the largest being a mag 4.5 on Dec 9, 2003. If you take a look at the NEIC search results page here, you'll notice something, though:
1999: 1 quake
2000: 3 quakes
2001: 5 quakes
2002: 1 quake
2003: 7 quakes
2004: 3 quakes
2005: 3 quakes
2006: 5 quakes
2007: 4 quakes

So, some variation suggesting perhaps a gradual increase, but nothing too extraordinary. But last year:

2008: 12 quakes

That's kind of interesting, because of the 2008 quakes, the largest two were in December. The largest was a mag 3.4 on Dec 27 (the same day that the YVO people say the Yellowstone swarm began to intensify). It was also the closest to the target coordinates I input for Harrisburg at Latitude 40.160N Longitude 76.50W, at only 9 km (six miles) away. The second-largest (mag 2.4) was on Dec 31...

Could be just a statistical oddity but I'm wondering if this is all tied in to what's happening at Yellowstone? It "shouldn't" be as there is not supposed to be any direct link between Yellowstone's activity and what happens so far east of it, but what if it is? Food for thought.

It would be worth researching other US east regions to see if they have also had any uptick in quake activity in 2008, especially in the dying days of the year. Unfortunately I lack the time right now due to work duties or I'd do it myself. (I know there are maps showing all east half US quakes for the last six months but actual lists of data might be more telling when used in conjunction with them. And for the longer period as well, for comparison.)

Note: you can find the NEIC main search page on this link.

Regards,

Mike

[edit on 6/1/09 by JustMike]

Originally posted by Ponyboy_86
reply to post by JustMike

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Originally posted by JustMike
reply to post by jwstarry

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You are quite right. Quakes in the region where you live are pretty rare animals indeed. I did a search of the NEIC database for the period 01/01/99 to 12/31/2008 for all quakes in a 200-mile radius (320 km) of Harrisburg and the list shows just 44 events,the largest being a mag 4.5 on Dec 9, 2003. If you take a look at the NEIC search results page here, you'll notice something, though:
1999: 1 quake
2000: 3 quakes
2001: 5 quakes
2002: 1 quake
2003: 7 quakes
2004: 3 quakes
2005: 3 quakes
2006: 5 quakes
2007: 4 quakes

So, some variation suggesting perhaps a gradual increase, but nothing too extraordinary. But last year:

2008: 12 quakes

That's kind of interesting, because of the 2008 quakes, the largest two were in December. The largest was a mag 3.4 on Dec 27 (the same day that the YVO people say the Yellowstone swarm began to intensify). It was also the closest to the target coordinates I input for Harrisburg at Latitude 40.160N Longitude 76.50W, at only 9 km (six miles) away. The second-largest (mag 2.4) was on Dec 31...

Could be just a statistical oddity but I'm wondering if this is all tied in to what's happening at Yellowstone? It "shouldn't" be as there is not supposed to be any direct link between Yellowstone's activity and what happens so far east of it, but what if it is? Food for thought.

It would be worth researching other US east regions to see if they have also had any uptick in quake activity in 2008, especially in the dying days of the year. Unfortunately I lack the time right now due to work duties or I'd do it myself. (I know there are maps showing all east half US quakes for the last six months but actual lists of data might be more telling when used in conjunction with them. And for the longer period as well, for comparison.)

Note: you can find the NEIC main search page on this link.

Regards,

Mike

[edit on 6/1/09 by JustMike]

Hi i registered to say this again:
I like how you think and i wonder if we could find data like that (from 99 or so) for all these areas thats been going off and having earthquakes lately and see if they all have sharp increase in 08. some of these areas are: kamchatka, indonesia papua afghanistan i think they all had started to have earthquakes around 27th dec 08.

[edit on 6-1-2009 by Ponyboy_86]