Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes

Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come. Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it's very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah.

"They're certainly not normal," Smith said. "We haven't had earthquakes in this energy or extent in many years."

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Ahhh, maybe there is something to the yellowstone earthquake thread after all. I was going to post this in that thread but thought others might be interested. Let's all hope it's not going to blow. I'm not too surprised I read about this on ATS first, you guys catch a lot of good stuff before it's reported by the MSM.

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The shimmers are steadily increasing no dobut. And Yellowstone is somewhat overdue in its outburst cycles according to many geologists and scientists.

Its possible it is building up for its overdue outcry. Im not worried about it tho. I am in Casper and if Yellowstone does its thing, well there really isnt much I can do except put on the gas masks, get the family in the truck and head up to Casper mountians and find us a nice spot under the pine trees and just wait it out.



Cheers!!!!

I've always wondered whether I was gunna see Yellowstone do anything in my lifetime.

Obviously I hope I don't, I'm hoping this is just the resting behemoth rolling over in it's sleep.

I think it's a safe assumption that no one wants to see Yellowstone do anything excessively seismic, Good Wolf.

The force that can be generated by all of the geothermal capabilities of Yellowstone is beyond fathoming. It's staggering what that one park will do to this whole country when the clock reaches 0.

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Totally. But isn't it due already, anyway?

"Due" is a funny word...we could be thousands of years overdue or thousands of years ahead of whatever may come. Geological events such as a supervolcano are far more rare in our Earth's history and not necessarily easy to predict. Most of them occur on cycles that can last millions of years.

I think what you want is to let this thing kinda blow off steam in small doses, as to avoid a massive event. So maybe this is a good thing, and a few small eruptions, or some more serious seismic activity could be a good thing.


anyone linked this to the web bot thing yet?

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Obviously it doesn't have the regularity of Old Faithful.

Originally posted by Sacreligion
I think it's a safe assumption that no one wants to see Yellowstone do anything excessively seismic, Good Wolf.

The force that can be generated by all of the geothermal capabilities of Yellowstone is beyond fathoming. It's staggering what that one park will do to this whole country when the clock reaches 0.

This won't just affect your country, it will affect the whole continent, if not the entire world.

Scary stuff.

Even if there will be an eruption in Yellowstone, there is no evidence it will be a super eruption like last time 600,000 years ago or the one 2 million years ago, that was a real super eruption.

It is a fact that for the last 10 years there has been changes in the geyser system and increased seismic activity, but it is very premature to link it with an eruption. However, since it is Yellowstone it gains attention and you can never really know when eruption occurs.

I personally think it is just a small "fart", the eruption wont happen for the next 10 thousand years at least.

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This won't just affect your country, it will affect the whole continent, if not the entire world.

If something happens that affects the continent, it will affect the whole globe, without a doubt.

The largest tremor of the event thus far just happened. 2.5 on the richter scale.

And yes, Ben, you are right. It'd be like if a huge comet made impact right where Yellowstone is.

watch the bbc `super volcano` - fictious maybe but based upon the usgs and real science

It doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It could just be letting off some steam to prevent a big blowup or magma is on the move. I watched a documentary about Yellowstone and it all depends on what chamber the magma is moving to. If an explosion did happen depending on the chamber that exploded doesn't necessarily mean catastrophy for all.

Actually the largest in the swarm was a 3.9.

There's another 35 page thread on the activity here:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

peace

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When reports of unusual animal migration away from Yellowstone, then we should, perhaps, become a bit concerned. Animals seem to have a "sense" of such phenomena...

On the whole timing thing, I never place too much faith in these estimates.

The fact is, all of the suggestions on whether it's due or not are based on a string of theories as proposed by geologists. Yes there is a lot of science behind it, but no one can truly predict anything.
If just one theory has been wrong, everything after that theory and built upon it is also wrong.

I hope this doesn't lead to anything, but it certainly does look suspicious.

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I agree, right now it seems rather impossible to actually predict something like this.

Over 40 pages of conversation, links and information on this exact topic.