What's going on at Yellowstone part 2

OK, the webicorder displays for yesterday are back up.
Anyone care to take a crack at WTH happened at around 1400 hours?
It can be seen throughout the park, doesn't appear to me to be the typical 'distant quake' signature.

a reply to: ressiv

can some one please explain to me how a road has MELTED does not draw more scrutiny? i just read this on another site. no where in the article does it say that, maybe, this has happened before out there before? it just says, "yes, this road has melted. sorry can't go out this way. but you can go to these other places." a road melting is an every day occurrence? okay then!

www.huffingtonpost.com...

a reply to: sageturkey

Japan M 6.3 Quake

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originally posted by: blackthorne
a reply to: ressiv

can some one please explain to me how a road has MELTED does not draw more scrutiny? i just read this on another site. no where in the article does it say that, maybe, this has happened before out there before? it just says, "yes, this road has melted. sorry can't go out this way. but you can go to these other places." a road melting is an every day occurrence? okay then!

www.huffingtonpost.com...

Yellowstone is one huge geothermal system, with plumbing that is constantly changing.

Been tracking another small swarm happening at the Lake in the last couple days:

www.seis.utah.edu...

At the time of this posting, that map does not include another 15 events or so that happened this morning. And she's still fidgeting. The rest will probably be posted Monday or Tuesday- but you can see them at YLT:

www.quake.utah.edu...

If I had to speculate, given the low overall average of seismic intensity (most are below 2 magnitude), chances are this is hydrothermal activity as opposed to magmatic. But beware, as we know this can increase at any time. I got the eyes on it, for sure- I get nervous with any activity at the lake, and this swarm is right in it.

TA - We once again have uplift in the lake area see here and here - somethings brewing.

originally posted by: Anmarie96
TA - We once again have uplift in the lake area see here and here - somethings brewing.

Yes, that is a good catch, Anmarie! Those figures for 2014 must have come in recently, cause it wasn't long ago I checked and that data was not there. The doom porners are going to have a field day with this!


Even WLWY near the same spot is showing uplift trending sharp upwards:
earthquake.usgs.gov...

So that's three stations I can see that are showing uplift, in the north part and above the lake. Hmm. I might just ask about this to my contacts, and see if there are any comments I can share.

If I remember right, seismicity tends to increase during deflation, and mellow during inflation at Yellowstone- and not always. But interestingly things have been fidgeting in the lake lately with some small quakes- so it's possible it could be related to the uplift. Last I asked, it was said to me that we were in a period of deflation- but that appears to have changed near the lake. Curious indeed.

EDIT:
Also, another thing I suppose I should mention is that the massive bulge in the Lake is in that area... Under the very north shore, right were that uplift is registering...


Edit2:
Got a response from one of my contacts which confirms the uplift at those stations- and was also noted to me that apparently it is occurring at similar rates as the last time uplift was initiated. So while it IS uplift, the rate of the uplift appears to be within historical norms. I dunno, to me it looks a little sharper up than previous uplift episodes. But I guess I won't worry until they start to. Right now no worries.

hmm, well it appears that a quake, about 2.7 to 3.3 mag has hit somewhere southwest in the park, between MCID and YPP - and in addition I am detecting smaller seismicity as well. Appears to be persistent for now. No updates from usgs cause it's the weekend and things take longer. Might have a swarm brewing, but in an odd place... Eyes on, peoples.

see here for the quakes:
www.quake.utah.edu...

a reply to: TrueAmerican
Ok TA when you sit up and take notice so do I. With all the volcanoes popping off and roaring to life this one is the one you just want to stay in a coma. From Daily Thumbnails

My son is working in Calgary and I am not liking his proximity to this beast...

a reply to: whatnext21

Like usual, it's probably just a little flurry of activity- will most likely die down here in a few. But I be watching.

a reply to: TrueAmerican

Thanks TA that is reassuring knowing that you have one eye on the girl and one on the road...
Finally posted one for Yellowstone area. Does that look right for what you saw?
M3.8 - 18km ENE of Driggs, Idaho
2014-08-30 20:09:14 UTC
Event Time

2014-08-30 20:09:14 UTC
2014-08-30 14:09:14 UTC-06:00 at epicenter
2014-08-30 16:09:14 UTC-04:00 system time
Location

43.763°N 110.892°W depth=5.0km (3.1mi)

Nearby Cities

18km (11mi) ENE of Driggs, Idaho
72km (45mi) E of Rexburg, Idaho
92km (57mi) ENE of Ammon, Idaho
97km (60mi) ENE of Idaho Falls, Idaho
327km (203mi) SSE of Helena, Montana

a reply to: whatnext21

Yes, that's the one. At the time I was not monitoring anything on the IW network (which is mostly south in the Tetons), so I could not give a better idea of location. But I've pulled up one station down there and included it in case we get any repeats...

So it appears, best I can tell, that even though that 3.8 was shallow, it was far enough away from the other small events near YPP that keep happening still- that I think the two are unrelated. It was just a random quake I think, and they can happen in the Tetons.

www.youtube.com...

sorry i don't know how to imbed videos since i don't post a whole lot.... the woman in this video keeps talking about the little "drumbeats" on the graph being magma movement. can someone confirm that she is making sense? or is she just making that up?

originally posted by: pasiphae
www.youtube.com...

sorry i don't know how to imbed videos since i don't post a whole lot.... the woman in this video keeps talking about the little "drumbeats" on the graph being magma movement. can someone confirm that she is making sense? or is she just making that up?

After watching that video, and knowing what I know, please- do yourself and the rest of us a favor: get as far away as possible from anything she posts ever again. At least 90% of what she said is false. Or rather, your buds here at ATS have better tools, and direct contacts to bring you much more accurate and reliable info.

Those wavy lines have nothing to do with magma movement, for starters. The rest I won't even bother with. Sorry, just don't have the time for that nonsense. I feel sorry for her, because she is so far off and yet sounds sincere. Poor girl.

a reply to: TrueAmerican

LOL! thank you. i thought it sounded like she was just making stuff up but i dont know enough. i appreciate you giving me the scoop.

I wish it would blow. We need a major rearrangement of the social order.

I have tried my best to put today's headlines in perspective. I've tried hard to not worry about ebola, Putin's mention of nuclear arms, and long awaited nightmare of Bush's Iraq. I was okay with all of that. I was okay until I checked Yellowstone's uplift. I'm not okay now. It's even more rapid than when it happened in 2004. And, considering the Norris jump up and then down- well, it's very unnerving.

Had to add. I'd like to correct myself. The uplift is about the same as in 2004/2005 and only more time will show if it's at a faster rate- I don't think the YVO gave a rate.


Adding again. I think the White Lake GPS is showing a greater than average uplift rate. Can't say if this is the main area, but it's rate is faster than 2004.




Oh, I've even been cool and collected despite Iceland's battle between fire and ice. Wow. But this. Uplift. Fast. this bugs me


Damn. Why do I think? The motion of the uplift is akin to 2004/2005. It shows the same movement east/west and north/south as in 2005. That uplift was caused by a massive injection of magma. So, doesn't it stand to reason that there is once again an injection.

Conclusion. Yellowstone's chamber is filling again. This isn't the same ole same ole as were being told. Look back to 1971 and find it. no- it's not there. crap

i just saw a giant moth flying around outside, i thought it was a bat at first. umm. i think i'm done for the moment, i'm not happy with me.

originally posted by: Restricted
I wish it would blow. We need a major rearrangement of the social order.

????? A major eruption would destroy the social order and also kill off a millions of people.

originally posted by: AngryCymraeg

originally posted by: Restricted
I wish it would blow. We need a major rearrangement of the social order.

????? A major eruption would destroy the social order and also kill off a millions of people.

Yes, I know.

Yesterday, I wrote that you could look back all the way to 1971 and never find such and such. I was wrong. I don't think they had GPS in the park back then. And, that makes me wonder about when they began taking the measurements. I know the chart starts around 2001. But, I don't know if there's more data somewhere from further back. So, that means I was full of it.

The GPS project was developed in 1973. So, you can see my math is bad.