Whats going on at yellowstone?

Now we all know that the Moon has an affect on the Earth's crust, and the inhabitants of the Earth's surface also. Many aspects are required to be taken into consideration when forming opinions about its affects. Apogee, perogee. Furthest from the Sun and closest to the Sun. The position of the Earth, the Moon, in relation to each other and in relation to the Sun.
The dynamics occuring at Yellowstone can be affected by the varying influence of Lunar forces.
I would like Ravenlogic to tell all of us how he has come to the determination that attempting to study the forces and make a perediction in a forum such as this is Lunacy. It is simply doing some research and sticking your neck out to bring forward some interesting things to think about. Something real scientists cannot do. Lets hear some reasearch that refutes any tidal force effects on Yellowstone can occur.

If there is still a moderator in this thread, Ravenlogic should be sanctioned for the blatant personal attacks that continue to take away from this thread. Is any Moderator out there? Maybe Ravenlogic has been affected by the full Moon and just can't help himself. (Is that what the term "Lunacy" means?)

heres a recent artical about YS on the nationa, geo site.....


has some cool looking pics


ngm.nationalgeographic.com...

reply to post by alysha.angel

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Nice find

I may have to spend some time pumping the GPS data into a chart and see if this 3 inches per year rise is really that.

M.

yeah its about time i added to the THREAD LOL ,thank you.


ya know we may find that its more n 3 inc a year , now that for me at least would be a good thing ( my life is dull and stressfull)

At the moment the average yearly upward ground deformation since 2004 is less than 2 inches/yr (for WLWY gps station). Since the end of the 2008/2009 earthquake swarm it has slowed down quite a bit.
Also, at LKWY gps station, vertical ground deformation has reversed and now is slowly going down.

Source data and graphs:
WLWY (west of Sour Creek Dome): quake.wr.usgs.gov...
LKWY (just north of Yellowstone lake): quake.wr.usgs.gov...

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In that National Geo article did they cite the experts filling out this thread? The first caption of the article cites the PLUMB concept. Wow. Definitely a vast conspiracy eh? I noticed at the end of the article the Christiensen guy described how the magma chamber is now below thicker crust of the Rockies which would in his opinion make it less likely to behave as it had to the West. That kind of thinking really neuters the hysteria/government is covering up of important eruption facts BS common through the 500 agonizing chunks of this thread. It's not the government it's mother nature deserving scrutiny. How could she destroy my perfect colassal-mega-disaster scneario that I've invested so much time in? How? Well, I still hope it erupts tomorrow burying all of the miserable red states in 80 feet of ash.

There was an interesting short term dip in the water table recently. Does the water sometimes find a crack to drain into?

reply to post by winotka

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That could be probably due to some changes in the bed of the outlet river because of the great amount of water flowing (thought at the moment diminishing in quantity - and will continue to do so until next February-March by the way).

It appears that a certain number of very small earthquakes are occurring south of the West Thumb of Yellowstone lake, on the caldera rim. Some of them from past days have been added to the official earthquake list (www.seis.utah.edu...), but most of them still not. Maybe they're too small to be properly added? They show faintly on more than one webicorder though (check out YLT and YPP).

reply to post by alysha.angel

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In the article it says that the last swarm in the 80s caused a lessing of the rise of the dome, but this swarm didn't. Shirakawa found it is rising less than 3 inches a year for now.

Since I've read most of the links from this thread, I understood most of the info in the article.

YMR is wild last houres.... wonder if there comes an heavy one...

reply to post by huntergatherer

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Interesting link to the extent of damage should it erupt.

people.uwec.edu...

reply to post by Egyptia

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Thanks for posting that. Quite a good article so I have saved it in my ever growing collection of Yellowstone pages.

Just a small update Folks:

The latest version of QuakeData is available on my download site. No real changes, just a couple of very minor bug fixes. It is still free! The file is QuakeData.zip

I have also uploaded the latest Compact version data with data right up to date. This is called QDCData.zip

In addition the data right up to date for SQL server can also be found in the folder SQL Server Stuff, and the file is called QuakeData_SQLServerBackupFile.zip

Link to my site is in my signature.

Other than there is a super volcano underneath, should make some folks think all the way from California on up. This is the one I was told about in my dream state that scientists are worried about. A chain reaction.

Probably from San Andreas up to Yellowstone.



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The other caldera is actually Long Valley. Whilst the San Andreas fault could be a real big one if it was to go, I am not sure if it would cause a chain reaction to Yellowstone. What would happen there is more likely to be to the West of the fault leaving the more stable land mass on the East of the fault.

I personally feel that is more likely to happen (chain reaction) if Long Valley were to go, and I don't see much evidence for that, but then you never know......

www.greatfallstribune.com...

going back a few yrs on the charts, there is 0 activity. in and around yellowstone. the only activity in the continental u.s. is california.
so i would say, there has definetly been a change.
also someone about a yr ago was worried that it was coming to life.
someone who worked the park. i remember one geologist said, "you can think of little quakes around yellowstone, to be the scariest little quakes
on earth".

a big swarm in indonesia now... same place as the tsunami some years ago.. creepy...toba nearby,,,

Not only would this be a disaster in its own right, this would have a major effect-

www.thenewstribune.com...

It is also in the time frame that it could be "due" to happen soon. Best guess though, eh?