Another localized swarm of small quakes in Yellowstone

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.seis.utah.edu/HTML/YPEvents1Day.html (over 24 hr period April 5-6)

Looks as if we might see a slightly larger quake sometime on the next few days?

[acmejack]

1. Someday, someday you will see a slightly larger quake there indeed!

Several orders of magnitude larger that is! We are overdue, I understand...

[Systematic Chaos]

3. If I understand correctly...

The Richter Scale ceases to become an accurate measure of true seismic activity after a certain threshhold... or am I thinking of something else entirely? At any rate, if Yellowstone has a mega-eruption, it will be about a what, 15.7?

[acmejack]

5. The super caldera!

Indeed it was to it I was referring. The bulging lake, the entire area is quite elastic. A 15.7 is simply inconceivable, at least to this tiny little brain. I was in Anchorage shortly after the big quake in 1963 and remember how badly it was beat up.

[Warpy]

7. We're 60,000 years overdue, to be exact

and up to its last eruption, that one had a very regular eruption cycle.

Because nobody has ever been able to study a supervolcano prior to its eruption, we don't know if the very new science of checking for harmonic quakes will predict its eruption or if it has a completely different type of earthquake signature prior to blowing its top.

I just hope we don't find out.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Oh, I'm sure that will happen one of these days

In which case quite a few of us can kiss our asses a big ADIOS!

But I've noticed that when there are these swarms of localized small quakes in Yellowstone it's often followed within a few days by a slightly larger quake, like a 3 or so. Precursors, perhaps?

As far as the caldera really blowing her top goes, I think we'd see a lot of fairly obvious signals before a blowout of such magnitude would occur.

[sailingaway]

2. ever hear of the mega-volcano in the area?

when it blows, it will take most of the mid USA with it... will we blue coastal states want a mass immigration of undocumented red state-rs? :evilgrin:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. you deserve this!

:spank:


and this
to DU!

Sounds like you will fit right in. :)

[sailingaway]

6. thanks! I'm feeling evil today, getting tired of taking crap

from bush-bots... :argh:

[Dead_Parrot]

8. ROFL

:evilgrin:

[theHandpuppet]

10. Follow Up: Swarm continues in same area

( 4/6- 4/7 )
http://www.seis.utah.edu/HTML/YPEvents1Day.html