Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm: Updated

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The fact is that its stated over and over again that there is no sure way of knowing if the quakes are from plates slipping or magma movement. To keep from causing allot of panic, its better not to comment on this fact openly.
If Yellowstone goes off, where do you go???

K of UT 12:46PM February 04, 2010

Yesterday I had the numbers of swarm on 290 and this morning it shows 238
How is this possible??????

Angel12 9:31AM January 26, 2010

Hi,
you are right Patty. Anyhow, conversations about this are pointless in any case, because nobody can go underground and take a look what is really going on down there.
The point is to watch and to be aware that this "thing" is alive and we, or future generations may be forced some day, to deal with it`s wakeup...
Your sientists do their best I belive, and they also will have questionsmarks on their foreheads sometimes, but I´m sure they are truthful.
Jürgen

Jürgen form germany 3:19PM January 15, 2009

The fact is that there are different types of earthquakes. There are 2 types, easily recognized by scientists, that indicate volcanic activity. If they are saying that the current swarm is seismic that probably means that the earthquakes are *NOT* of the type that indicates the movement of magma.
If they are not being truthful then we can not trust anything they say and the whole conversation is pointless.

Patty Foy of VA 2:19PM January 15, 2009

Hi,
looks like a new swarm is just starting...

Jürgen S. 7:05AM January 10, 2009

Hi,
I should have said, that I ment, that the earthquake-swarms are caused by the inflating magmabubble below YNP but I hope/guess that this (weak) EQ-swarms only could cause some hydrothermal explosions no volcanic erruption.
Jürgen

Jürgen S. from germany 9:03AM January 07, 2009

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KYAGB of AK 7:24PM January 06, 2009

The quakes were not hydrothermal as first thought. Quake analysis at U of U shows "souble-coupled signatures" meaning there was no fluid involved and only rock on rock sliding. Look at the swarm dimentions and Lake bathymetry, particularly the Inflated Plain discovered in 2003. The Lake may actually be a volcanic crater with the swarm zone delineating the old chimney that is being uplifted by expansion of the magma chamber below. Their sensors don't have enough resolution to definitively detect these features and I'm challenging USGS to get better/more seismic instrumentation, aerial optic and IR observation and bathymetric surveys. Please help.

KYAGB of AK 7:10PM January 06, 2009

one more from germany ;-)
there are, if anybody wants to, a lot of thing you can worrie about.
a lot of information is now possible to be viewed by public via internet,
but it is difficult for a non-sientist to read the significand information out of it.
And global timescale is not compatible with human understanding of time.
I found once a statistic in the net: time vs. major asteroid impacts on earth and they did say to it that our solarsystem is oscillating in the milkyway and all major impacts occured to be at a specific point of this oscillating curve... and we are now exactly at this point again...
today I read an article in witch they say, that sientists just found out, that the global climate is 3times more effected by global volcanic activity as belived so far. They say we only have such a strong golbal warming these days, because there are missing some major volcanic erruptions for some years. The stratosphere is just too clean...
sometimes one can think it could be the time, that a "global event" (what nature ever) would be not so bad to "reboot" the system and show us humans that we are not so big as we think we are and sitting in the same little boat, staring hypnotized like a rabbit into the headlights of a car speeding towards us on a dark highway, unable to react.
The best would be to accept that our existance is just another a period of this planets life and allso our time will end. If we can do anything to get an "extra lap", well lets try. We need first to stop to killing ourselfs... and try to have fun together
Jürgen
At this point: sorry for bad english an spelling mistakes.
Thanks Libbie!

Jürgen from germany 6:20PM January 06, 2009

Hi,
it is a big difference between a "normal" vulcano and a supervulcano like yellowstone.
even a highly explosiv big stratovulcano (as we in germany call a highriskivulcano like f.e. Vesuv) is nothing against yellowstone.
the behavior prior to an erruption of some vulcanotypes is more or less understood this time, but not of a thing like yellowstone.
I myself was highly nerveous as the big earthquake/tsunami occured north of sumatra dec. 2006 not far from Toba. Ther is still strong seismic activity going on there and I wonder if this heavy activity could trigger toba to whatever, but Toba errupted "only" 75000years ago, so do not worrie too much.
In case of yellowstone and it´s cycle of activity in the last 2mio years I am more into watch tight, just to be informed...
Watch the webicorders of YNP no for ~10 years, and in the last 10 days I see things never occured before...
http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/lkwy_webi.htm
http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/lkwy_webi_6d.htm
I mean it just looks different then what I saw in the years before. Even as the strong Alaska-Earthquake some years ago triggerd YNP hydrothermal system to change significant.
however, I still guess/hope this activity is all hydrothermal and not volcanic.
Jürgen

Jürgen S. from germany 4:44PM January 06, 2009