Earthquake Swarm at Yellowstone Supervolcano: Update

Ian??

ian was that?

daivd of CO @ Jan 05, 2009 10:48:50 AM

Don't let this subject die!

I appreciate your questioning of this issue. I hope that the small earthquakes are just "nothing", but I am affraid that the scientist would not diclose detailed information due to the public "panicing" and nothing happens. I do want to be prepared if something arises, but I do not just want this information to die down. I would like more questions from the public to be asked on a frequent basis and to know more about this situation. I know in my "gut" that there is probably one scientist out there monitoring this saying to himself.....(Hum), and just like I said not wanting to "panic" everyone.

Anyway thanks for the questions asked......keep up the good work, and don't let this issue die!

Stephanie of AR @ Jan 05, 2009 10:07:57 AM

diet

was going to start my diet tomorrow, but now I'm thinking the hell with it, might as well go out happy !!

Fatcat of @ Jan 05, 2009 00:35:42 AM

coast to coast

some guy named Mitch Barros is going to be on tonight ti discuss this.

of @ Jan 04, 2009 23:14:35 PM

U of U

I wonder when the University of Utah starts their week? They seem to have stopped documentation after Saturday evening. Attached is a link to USGS world wide activity. Even this list documents 7 quakes after U of U stopped.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

CLR in Wyoming of WY @ Jan 04, 2009 18:50:27 PM

Yellowstone Super Eruption

If the predictions of 12-2012 are correct based on such prognosticators as Nostrademous, Hopi, I Ching, Mayan, Cayce, etc. then this may be the beginning of the end. A super volcano eruption occurs here approximately every 600,000 yrs and it is now 640,000 yrs and counting.

Maurice of FL @ Jan 04, 2009 12:31:43 PM

Swarms are relatively commonplace

FWIW earthquake swarms are relatively commonplace and on their own don't mean very much.

In the Taupo Volcanic Zone (currently the most productive rhyolite zone on the planet, comparable to Yellowstone) there have been earthquake swarms going on for three years at Matata (just north of the coast) and recently a series of swarms underneath Lake Taupo itself (most likely due to tectonic shifting and settling of the caldera after the last big eruption in 181 AD)

Yep, volcanoes can be pretty dangerous. Yep, they are pretty unpredictable.

Yep, swarms are one indication that something is happening, but they don't really tell us what that something is. It could be tectonic shifting, it could be steam busting rocks, it could be magma moving and affecting surrounding rocks, etc.. And the swarms are only one sign. Before an eruption you can generally expect a number of signs including harmonic tremor, earthquake swarms, uplift, gas emissions, changes in the geothermal behavior of the park, etc.

Yep, the uplift and the swarms are signs but pretty precursory ones as yet. Certainly not worth getting your knickers in a twist over at this stage.

Swarmi @ Jan 04, 2009 11:53:44 AM

I demand to know...

...where the 12/31 Data is! We need a special investigation, congressional involvement and a bumper sticker campaign.

STOP TECTONIC SHIFT NOW!

Gooberman

Dr. Tub E. Gooberman of TX @ Jan 04, 2009 11:07:27 AM