2.5 Quake at Yellowstone

[bamademo]

2.5
Date-Time

* Monday, June 30, 2008 at 16:06:40 UTC
* Monday, June 30, 2008 at 10:06:40 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 44.794°N, 110.228°W
Depth 0.8 km (~0.5 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
Distances

* 34 km (21 miles) SW (223°) from Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT
* 47 km (29 miles) SE (125°) from Gardiner, MT
* 71 km (44 miles) ENE (78°) from West Yellowstone, MT
* 469 km (292 miles) NNE (16°) from Salt Lake City, UT

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles); depth +/- 20.9 km (13.0 miles)
Parameters NST= 17, Nph= 17, Dmin=8 km, Rmss=0.33 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=5
Source

* University of Utah Seismograph Stations

Event ID uu00014019

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

I hope this isn't a preview of things to come. Of course I did watch a horrible disaster movie on Sci-Fi yesterday called 10.5 in which most of the California coast gets it. :-)

[davepc]

1. Yellowstone sits on top of a caldera that some think was responsible for a mass extinction event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

[bamademo]

2. I knew that...

That's why I was mildly concerned.

[Posteritatis]

6. I'd rather a lot of 2.5s than silence followed by a 9 there (nt)

[ensho]

7. was wondering the same thing - how the growing dome took the quake

nt

[Thothmes]

18. Actually it sits inside the caldera

[Renew Deal]

3. We're DOOMED!!!!

:nuke:

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[Subdivisions]

4. If that Super-Volcano erupts, we will indeed be doomed. n/t

[Renew Deal]

9. Have you seen the Discovery Channel TV movie called Super Volcano?

I have. The election would be the least of our worries if Yellowstone blows.

[WolverineDG]

5. How's Ranier looking?

:scared:

dg

[johnaries]

8. Wrong movie, watch Supervolcano

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/

Much scarier than any earthquake - a true global disaster. And it will happen one day, we just don't know when.

[Skidmore]

10. Noooo, we can't have Yellowstone blow....

that asteroid is coming.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. No, no, no! That WHY Yellowstone has to blow.

Ya see, just before the asteroid hits we have to light off a nuke that will cause Yellowstone to blow up, and the ejected mass from Yellowstone will intercept the the asteroid and knock it back into space!

Don't you EVER watch the SciFi Channel?

[thewiseguy]

11. 1000-3000 earthquakes occur in Yellowstone every year

http://www.yellowstone.net/earthquakes.htm

[hedgehog]

12. Proving once again that GD is no fun at all.

The Lounge would have kept this thread going forever and would have included a cross reference to kudzu and to Oscar!

[SpiralHawk]

14. Kudzu Threatened by Super Oscar Quake

...details to follow...

[kestrel91316]

17. Oscar??? You mean the cat Oscar who came in this AM for his

weekly fluid treatment??? WOW, how did you know about that???

Totally OT: Little Oscar, bless his heart, has two steel pins working their way through his skin and out of his foreleg bones, leftover from a surgery a couple of years ago. Now THAT'S a scary thing. Surprisingly, his skin isn't unhappy, nor is his leg overall. One of the pins pokes out over half an inch, lol, a shiny metallic extra dewclaw. So I sent him down the street to the surgery place that originally did him, for them to sort out. The owner was completely nonplussed by the whole thing, but it creeped me out and I'm the doctor.

Now back to our regular programming. 10.5 was probably THE WORST sci fi movie I have EVER seen, in terms of scientific accuracy.

[hedgehog]

21. I was thinking of THIS Oscar:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7865820

[Indenturedebtor]

15. Actually that was me

Shouldn't have eaten that Chili last night :hide:

[kestrel91316]

16. Uh, that was a REALLY horrible movie, with the WORST

scientific nonsense I have ever seen. And I am a big fan of horror and sci fi and disaster porn.

Yellowstone gets little quakes all the time. If the caldera blows we will all die anyway so I am not worrying my pretty little head over it.

[cobalt1999]

19. exactly.

If it blows, we're dead and there is nothing we can do about it, so why worry about something that probably won't happen for 1000 years and we can't do anything about anyway.

I would like a little warning in order to run up all my credit cards though!

[carlyhippy]

22. Yeah, I would like about a month or two warning

I could do some major shopping on my way out!

[L. Coyote]

20. The Yellowstone super volcano is likely to erupt

sometime in the next 400,000 years. But, it might not too.

It is the greatest known deformation of the geoid, a big pimple on our ellipsoidal mass.

Yellowstone caldera is also only the most recent in long series of massive eruption calderas strung across North America from SE Oregon and across Idaho.

Craters of the Moon visitors center has a great display about this history.
http://www.nps.gov/crmo/index.htm