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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — 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.” Smith directs the Yellowstone Seismic Network, which operates seismic stations around the park. He said the quakes have ranged in strength from barely detectable to one of magnitude 3.8 that happened Saturday. A magnitude 4 quake is capable of producing moderate damage. “This is an active volcanic and tectonic area, and these are the kinds of things we have to pay attention to,” Smith said. “We might be seeing something precursory.
“Could it develop into a bigger fault or something related to hydrothermal activity? We don’t know. That’s what we’re there to do, to monitor it for public safety.” Smith said it’s difficult to say what might be causing the tremors. He pointed out that Yellowstone is the caldera of a volcano that last erupted 70,000 years ago. Yellowstone has had significant earthquakes as well as minor ones in recent decades. In 1959, a magnitude 7.5 quake near Hebgen Lake just west of the park triggered a landslide that killed 28 people.
Well maybe not doomed now… but eventually. Happy New Year!
i find it odd that AP is constantly showing the wrong location for the quake storm at the bottom right of the wyoming, when the swarm is located
at top left in yellowstone lake itself, -as seen
on this (clickable) US map of last 7 days..
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
-and it’s more like 5 days, not 3..(it’s truncated..was longer 2 days ago..)
here’s is a list from Utah university:
http://www.quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
even more noteworthy is the crazy amount of quakes in alaska..
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/Alaska.php
on dec 27-28 when i first noticed these quakes.. i found links via various web engines showing a quake storm of 600+ off the coast of oregon during the week of Dec 10,2008, that was similar to a previous oregon storm back in april of 2008..
-now when i look for the dec 10 articles, they’ve vanished.. the only indication of Dec oregon quakes is on this map:
http://www.ess.washington.edu/recenteqs/latest.htm
when you click on the yellow square at left..it shows nothing.. (?) -on the 27th(11pm or so) i was able to find maps showing a cluster..
-anyway…something is brewing.. i just hope these are natural and not man-made..
-s
I love how scientists, with a speck of time worth of accurate records call something “Unprecedented”.
Typical morons.
#22–Paddy==what do you think unprecedented means? and why isn’t saying “we have no precedents for this activity” a useful bit of information? How many years of information do you think would be appropriate before scientists use the term?
I do see moronic behavior though. You are right about that.
# 23 bobbo said, “and why isn’t saying “we have no precedents for this activity” a useful bit of information?”
Given the time frame for which they are talking (a few decades) it is utterly useless.
#24 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Given the time frame for which they are talking (a
>>few decades) it is utterly useless.
Ah, you mean like what the Energy Cabal uses when they talk about global warming?
# 25 Mister Mustard said, “Ah, you mean like what the Energy Cabal uses when they talk about global warming?”
Nope
#26 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Nope
I see.
So you dismiss the Yellowstone issue because it’s too short a time frame, but you accept the Energy Cabal’s profit-seeking claim that’s based on an even shorter time frame.
Okay. At least you’re not ashamed.
#25, Mustard,
Given the time frame for which they are talking (a few decades) it is utterly useless.
What Cow-Paddy is refering to is the lenfth of time he has been the Temporary Associate Deputy Assistant Stockroom Helper at Radio Shack.
#21, soundwash,
i find it odd that AP is constantly showing the wrong location for the quake storm at the bottom right of the wyoming, when the swarm is located
at top left in yellowstone lake itself, -as seen
on this (clickable) US map of last 7 days..
I find it amusing that not only can’t you spell or use grammar, you can’t read the link.
All the quakes were centered beneath the northwest end of Yellowstone Lake.
The report was filed from Cheyenne WY which is why the map shows the South East part of the State.
Are you ready for the rupture?
mr. fusion… i award you the grammar-nazi troll of the year award, happy?
‘xcuse me for not proofing my post, oh great one.
the point being they should be showing where the quakes are located, -not the report location.
fwiw: the count is now above 290, with
16 more quakes happening on the jan 1.
several of those being under a minute apart in utah and yellowstone.