Yellowstone looks to be keeping everyone on their toes as we ring in 2009. The earthquake swarm reported earlier this week is continuing, with multiple events between 2-3.5 on the Richter Scale. Again, the folks monitoring the caldera – this time the Univ. of Utah – play down these events as normal for any active caldera system … and they’re very likely right. However, the media love to bring up the “supervolcano” angle and we’re even getting expert opinion from (wait for it) Garrison Keillor!. The earthquakes are just normal earthquakes so far – none of the dreaded/anticipated harmonic tremor that might indicate an eruption. This will likely mean that more gas and water monitoring will be occurring in the park in the coming weeks/months.
25 responses to “Yellowstone New Year’s Eve Update”
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Just curious. If these harmonic tremors are really resonance with other eruptions around the would, why are sites removing such graphs of tremors from their site to hide this from the public? Why remove the evidence if it is harmless?
Other sites kept their info on the sites they have, so why would USGS remove theirs???
I’ve heard from more that a few that there is a coverup going on, and they are wondering why no alert and evacuation has been done. There are harmonic tremors, the swarms of earthquakes have slowed down, but are still there. The new is saying that the swarms have stopped, when they clearly haven’t.
It looks like they are covering their asses, if you ask me. EXACTLY as was done in the Supervolcano movie.
Talk about a movie based on the facts!!! They sure got the facts right.
Tianca -
Ive heard reports from friends that live close by to yellowstone that there are some new Geysers. I cant confirm this as I live 4,000 miles away or so but my friends tell me that they have been down to yellowstone and have seen them for themselves.
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Dr. Eric,
I have noticed that starting at approximately 01:11 on 1/3/2009 in the LKWY Seismogram there shows a very short burst that keeps repeating itself up to present time. These bursts typically last from 2-5 minutes, is this evidence of a new hydrothermal vent?
Also, with all of the quakes in the swarm being located so close together (in some cases just 100 yards) and the depth going from surface to 7.5km down could we be seeing the birth of a new chimney and is it possible that this a new hydrothermal? -
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