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Originally posted by pazcat
Yellowstone rises and falls all the time, it even mentions that in your own link. The 10inch in places rise you speak of has been over time from 2004. Between 2007 and 2010 the rate of the rising has slowed down dramatically. All again from the link. Basically this news is 3+ years old.
Also check out the yellowstone thread here there is actually good info in that..
Your link seems to debunk your OP more than anything else, you may as well of just stated 'Yellowstone hasn't blown for a long time, it's overdue and it will be dec 2012'
Fortunately, the surge doesn't seem to herald an imminent catastrophe, Smith said.
"At the beginning we were concerned it could be leading up to an eruption," said Smith, who co-authored a paper on the surge published in the December 3, 2010, edition of Geophysical Research Letters.
"But once we saw [the magma] was at a depth of ten kilometers, we weren't so concerned. If it had been at depths of two or three kilometers [one or two miles], we'd have been a lot more concerned."
But there are also many examples, including the Yellowstone supervolcano, where it appears the ground has risen and fallen for thousands of years without an eruption.
When the rate of increase slows, the theory goes, the magma likely moves off horizontally to solidify and cool, allowing the surface to settle back down.
Based on geologic evidence, Yellowstone has probably seen a continuous cycle of inflation and deflation over the past 15,000 years, and the cycle will likely continue, Smith said.
It has nothing to do with the recent, normal behaviour of volcanoes. No connection at all.
Don't be so dramatic.edit on 19-1-2011 by pazcat because: to rant more
Originally posted by shikori
After that I think the Obama administration issued a gag order on usgs. Since then it has been nothing to worry about.
I am surprised this thread has gone on this long,.
Originally posted by bekod
well it is sad that the other thread was closed, it was a good thread but if we say with it here it should be just as good if not better and there,IMO there should be only one thread for the caldera at Yellowstone
Originally posted by bekod
reply to post by 1SawSomeThings
hey thanks that was what is was looking for had some links in it that i wanted , lets see if we can keep this one open and going.
Now i did find some links that have real time data but it is just numbers time depth and some i have no clue too but the links are in the closed threads.
to day there was a slight up lift and north movement , 2-3 mm in the west end of the lake, i am waiting for a second conformation on that to see if i read the data right.
There were earth quakes in the region as well , the other news if no one has noticed is the USGS has lowered it's recoding and monitoring of eq's from 2.+ down to 1.5 in that area.
If have read the data incorrectly i will say so, they do take there time getting back to ya.
Originally posted by bekod
reply to post by shikori
if you are referring to the 2-3mm rise, that is 2mm or 3mm millimeters, about the thickness of a peace of paper i was trying to say how sensitive the instruments are as far as measurements.