New developments at Yellowstone - Harmonic Tremors? (Merged Threads)

[Manedwolf]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The University of Utah's seismograph stations reported a swarm of small earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park.

The university said the quakes of magnitude 3.5 and lower have been occurring beneath Yellowstone Lake, five to nine miles south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, a park landmark. The earthquakes that began on Friday and continued on Saturday intensified during the weekend, and there were reports that people in the Yellowstone Lake area felt the quakes.

The University of Utah says they've been in an area of the park where quake swarms are common.

That's in the caldera.

As long as they don't start getting steady, rhythmic seismicity, the harmonic tremors thing...

2.5  2008/12/28 22:30:04 44.507N 110.371W  0.8   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.2  2008/12/28 22:23:37 44.511N 110.369W  1.2   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 1.9  2008/12/28 21:29:18 44.522N 110.385W  1.0   59 km (37 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.9  2008/12/28 21:25:54 44.504N 110.364W  0.6   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.2  2008/12/28 16:57:57 44.509N 110.372W  0.9   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.0  2008/12/28 16:08:25 44.491N 110.390W  1.7   60 km (37 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.2  2008/12/28 12:55:17 44.499N 110.350W  0.4   63 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.6  2008/12/28 12:32:15 44.511N 110.352W  0.3   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.4  2008/12/28 08:37:41 44.523N 110.370W  0.4   60 km (37 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.2  2008/12/28 02:23:57 44.511N 110.361W  0.4   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.2  2008/12/28 00:15:19 44.487N 110.358W  0.4   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.1  2008/12/27 23:37:20 44.491N 110.383W  0.2   60 km (37 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.4  2008/12/27 22:23:54 44.490N 110.360W  1.9   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.8  2008/12/27 22:15:56 44.492N 110.365W  0.2   62 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.6  2008/12/27 17:08:50 44.493N 110.354W  0.4   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.3  2008/12/27 15:30:03 44.498N 110.358W  4.3   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 1.5  2008/12/27 15:28:53 44.500N 110.368W  2.1   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 1.8  2008/12/27 15:27:36 44.499N 110.367W  2.5   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.1  2008/12/27 14:08:49 44.496N 110.370W  2.0   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.2  2008/12/27 13:26:27 44.505N 110.364W  2.4   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 3.5  2008/12/27 13:17:33 44.488N 110.357W  4.1   62 km (39 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.3  2008/12/27 11:56:35 44.484N 110.367W  0.5   62 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.8  2008/12/27 11:23:07 44.490N 110.369W  0.1   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.5  2008/12/27 10:01:07 44.484N 110.367W  0.2   62 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT
 2.6  2008/12/27 09:30:53 44.497N 110.368W  0.4   61 km (38 mi) ESE of  West Yellowstone, MT

[charby]

Somehow it will be called Bush's fault.

[41magsnub]

Global warming is causing it.

[Manedwolf]

Global warming is causing it.

Well. It'd definitely cause global cooling.

[Nick1911]

Another excuse to buy cheap/stack deep.  Particularly in respect to canned food products...

[Manedwolf]

Another excuse to buy cheap/stack deep.  Particularly in respect to canned food products...

Well. I'm not sure how much good that would do. If that ever went, it'd pretty much just blow up America, and cover whatever was left with several feet of ash. And then make the world dark. It would sort of suck.

It is basically a reason to have a offworld colony, for survival of the species.

[charby]

I live about 60-100 miles from the Eastern edge of both ash dumps.

[Standing Wolf]

Global warming is causing it.

Well, yeah, but Bush caused global warming. Everything is going to be different as of January 20, 2009.

[charby]

Well, yeah, but Bush caused global warming. Everything is going to be different as of January 20, 2009.

Maybe the Siberian Traps will blow up that day.

[Declaration Day]

[gunsmith]

naaaah, if Yellowstone blew it would only affect Idaho, Wyo, Ore, Montana,
eastern NV , Utah , Colo, maybe the west part of the Dakota's.

Nothing to worry about, NY and CA will still be there.

[charby]

Nothing to worry about, NY and CA will still be there.

To save us all with higher taxes

[Mabs2]

It's either the Elder Gods or giant three legged space ships.
At least we'd have a chance against the aliens.

[Manedwolf]

Apparently, the last eruption was 875000 megatons.

That could cause hearing damage.

[crt360]

I'm glad I went to Yellowstone a few times when I was younger (before anyone thought about it blowing up).  It doesn't look quite as appealing now.

[Tallpine]

Well, I'm likely within the nearly immediate kill zone 

(about 150 miles away)

[Manedwolf]

The map above is updating. Up to 41, now, more today.

[mfree]

In one little spot?

Huh. That'd make you think something'd going on, wouldn't it.

[Manedwolf]

In one little spot?

Huh. That'd make you think something'd going on, wouldn't it.

49 now, and I personally would not be on that lake right now. They're less than a kilometer down. I would be quite worrying about a bubble of gas.

[gunsmith]

seriously though, I remember hearing or watching a tv show or something that if yellowstone blew it could
be pretty bad

[Regolith]

seriously though, I remember hearing or watching a tv show or something that if yellowstone blew it could
be pretty bad

Yeah.  Super volcanoes are not very good for your health.


Last one exploded around 75,000 years ago, about the same time genetic researchers believe a bottleneck (i.e. mass die-off with only a few tens of thousands survivors) occurred in the human race.

Let's put it this way....if Yellowstone goes off, I don't think I'd want to be on the same continent.  Being on the same planet probably wouldn't be all that great either, though if you aren't in regions that will experience heavy ash-fall it's likely you will survive (though times will be tough for the next couple of years).

[BridgeRunner]

It is basically a reason to have a offworld colony, for survival of the species.

Personally, I don't give a **** about the species, I care about me and mine.  Other than that, hey, whatever.

[RocketMan]

"After faulting the Bush administration for refusing to "open a reasonable dialogue" with the volcano 'Goddess of Fire' Pele, President-elect Obama said today he is cutting short his Hawaiian vacation to open direct negotiations with the diety over the matter of the recent earthquake activity in Yellowstone Park."

[Cromlech]

I remember a TV special about this a few years back, it's pretty scary stuff. It is of course one of those things that we have absolutely no power over. Unless we can get Bruce Willis and his drilling team on the job.

[Parker Dean]

Seems like it's been a while since any significant eruption anywhere, doesn't it?