Whats going on at yellowstone?

Most of those are part of the ring of fire which is a wiggly ring running along both sides of the ocean up against the continents. Its a huge ring of volcanic activity. Most of the time one can be going off and it can be picked up by the others close by do to the rytms of the movements.

You guys want to see true to life harmonics go look at YTP its been harmonic since they turned it back on....

If you look at the history of the planet for volcanic and earthquake activity on any USGS info site, you will find the activity has tripled since 2000.

I can honestly say this is the largest thread that I have read every single post on.

This is good stuff, keep on tracking people!

Are these truly harmonic? When I study other harmonic charts they appear to be more regimented in their appearance?

The charts are in one minute segments so they are somewhat crunched up. If you can save a chart and enlarge it in a photo type program they seperate out into a perfect line of rises and dips.

Thanks, that makes more sense to me now

Updated info.

Snippet from interview with Dr. Jacob Lowenstern of the U.S. Geological Survey, top scientist at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory::

Interviewer: What might be the markers/indicators leading up to a major volcanic/seismic event? Do you think this is leading to a volcanic eruption of some sort? What does your gut tell you?

Lowenstern: The most likely "bad" things that could happen would be triggering of a larger earthquake or some sort of steam explosion set off beneath the lake. At this point, any kind of volcanic eruption is a long shot. That's why we haven't called for a volcano advisory. None of our other monitoring indicators show anything that is nearly so anomalous as the earthquakes. At this point, the most likely thing is that the swarm will continue, perhaps for weeks, and then will end without any other related activity.

Source: www.usnews.com...

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Same release that was posted a couple pages back.

But, thanks anyway... others may have missed it.

Sorry, I must have missed it too

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Translation: We don't know &&&&! Don't panic though.

Only reason they do not sound any alarm is to prevent an evacuation of unprecedented size...just to have it do absolutely nothing in the end.

Realize, that would KILL our economy, the nail in the coffin, whether the volcano blows or not.


EDIT: Also note, he dodged the question.

Note all he did was say "this or this could happen, and we don't thing that it could do something." along with securing the phrase with safe words to make people feel everything is alright. Then ending with a snippit of 'its going to continue for a while' so any future events are assumed 'expected'. He did not give us ANYTHING to look for, so people like ATS will not ring the alarm bell.


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There was just a bit of activity pretty far southeast of the caldera, and there was some earlier pretty far north of it too. It's almost as if something is happening underneath the whole entire area, much larger than the caldera itself.

They talk about a super volcano- but is it possible there could be something such as a MEGA volcano, of which the whole yellowstone caldera is only the tip of the iceburg? I mean like something so big that it was 400 square miles instead of 35 to 50? Maybe only erupts after 100 million years, but when it does, takes out all life on the planet with it without fail and has enough power to move oceans?

lol, ok I know I am pushing it, but I had to find something to theorize on while it's quiet! If anyone ever told me I'd be sitting in front of a computer eating popcorn and watching live stream data from seismographs, Ida sent them to a mental hospital. But alas, here I sit.



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Yes, in ancient times, if I recall, there was such a thing. Its called a mantle uplift if I recall. It basically turns a continent into one giant Kilauea lava flow. Its non explosive I do not think, but its not common... if I recall, India and Russia have the remains of two...

It's long been a theory of mine that Yellowstone could just be the head of one coming up. Considering there's two other super volcanoes nearby (nearby in geological terms) on the US continent (Long Valley, CA, and another one in the south west, forgot it's name) + dozens and dozens of volcanoes... I've often wondered if they were not the head of a major uplift, slowly making its way up for millions and millions of years. Creating hot spots as parts of it breaks loose.


As for Yellowstone, she isn't the biggest ever. The largest super volcano ever (forgot it's name) to blow that we know of, put out 5000 gigatons (5 mil megatons) of energy

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First of all I wont be the one to call the paddy wagon
But on the acticity there is alot of thermal waterways in the area and all the shaking may be causing alot of movemnt in the system.

TA.F17A has some interesting events occurring.... I dont quite know what to make of the data, I do not profess to be any kind of expert on seismographs.

If any one else is watching this one in GEE, please post your thoughts as to whats causing this?


this is the one located to the north of the lake

Can you remember if that is the one that created the ring of fire? It was said to have been created by one whopper of an eruption that most likely destroyed the land around it and sunk it. ( that sounds like the atlantis story )

you know i went back through and couldnt find the link for the gee thing.
could you guys put it up for me.

seis.sc.edu...

(Lets try this posting thing again, see how far I get this time)

Those small spikes are pretty normal activity for that station.

The link to GEE:

www.seis.sc.edu...

There's been talk recently that the Yellowstone graphs look like they have harmonic tremors, but I think the graph results are actually the result of strong winds right now. Strong wind readings on a seismograph can be confused with harmonic tremors, as this site explains: GeoNet - Seismic Monitoring of Volcanoes

It's very windy in Yellowstone right now, gusts of up to 55mph.