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    Sizable 4.3 quake west of Yellowstone

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    Posted: Jun 13, 2016 9:40 PM RST
    Updated: Jun 13, 2016 10:02 PM RST



    WEST YELLOWSTONE - A sizable quake rattled the mountains west of Yellowstone Park Monday morning, registering a 4.3 magnitude.

    The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 6:14 a.m. Monday with the epicenter about 32 miles west of West Yellowstone.

    That would put the quake's location north of the Continental Divide, in the Centennial Valley.

    The area is sparsely populated, and even an hour after the quake only a couple of people had reported feeling the quake to U.S.G.S.

    The region on the west side of Yellowstone frequently has several small quakes per month, but Monday's quake was larger than usual.

    According to the USGS, Montana is one of the most seismically-active states in the country, although the vast majority of recorded earthquakes are very small, causing no damage and rarely noticed by people.

    Since 1925, the state has experienced five shocks that reached intensity VIII or greater (Modified Mercalli Scale). During the same interval hundreds of less severe tremors were felt within the State.

    Montana's earthquake activity is concentrated mostly in the mountainous western third of the State which lies within a seismic zone that also includes southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and central Utah.

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    The Yellowstone Caldera, which is a supervolcano situated below the Yellowstone National Park in the United States have been showing signs that it might erupt within this year.



    http://www.kpax.com/story/29568325/r...ermal-activity


    http://www.scienceworldreport.com/ar...erupt-2016.htm

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    The second report is in such bad English as to be amusing.. . .. . surely not a reputable source?

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    Default Re: The Yellowstone Seismic Activity Thread

    Quote Posted by Swanette (here)
    The Yellowstone Caldera, which is a supervolcano situated below the Yellowstone National Park in the United States have been showing signs that it might erupt within this year.

    http://www.kpax.com/story/29568325/r...ermal-activity
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    Please... check the year this was posted !

    Quote Posted: Jul 17, 2015 1:33 AM RST
    Updated: Jul 17, 2015 1:34 AM RST
    Road in Yellowstone National Park closed to vehicles due to thermal activity
    As for a discussion of that Yellowstone fearmongering, see this thread: Boiling To Life! Vents Opening Around Yellowstone
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    There is a group over at FB called Bunker repot, they watch Yellowstone closely, the think magma is moving affecting the plate, causs earthquake swarms in that area ...
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    The 5.8 magnitude earthquake happened in western Montana in the early morning hours of July 6, and with it being a shallow earthquake, plenty of people beyond the epicenter southeast of Lincoln felt the tremors as it rattled states near Montana and was felt as far away as Canada.

    According to NPR, the Montana earthquake was the strongest one to hit the region in years ( 20), and the resulting shockwaves of the western Montana earthquake sent people to social media to publish reports about their dogs predicting the earthquake with odd behavior right before the quake struck. As folks publish tweets about initially being afraid that a ghost was shaking their beds, they are also publishing their fears about how Old Faithful might have been affected by the earthquake. Social media users wrote about Old Faithful erupting in Yellowstone National Park and fearing that Old Faithful’s hydrothermal features, powered by the Yellowstone supervolcano, would have a detrimental effect on the region.



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    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ntent=20170706


    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...quake-20-years
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    if my read sources are correct "old faithful" isn't exactly faithful anymore and the lake above Yellowstone has been tipping to the south since the 1920's- the Yellowstone caldera is at least yawning...

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    Yellowstone Supervolcano May Rumble to Life Faster Than Thought

    A new study of ancient ash suggests that the dormant giant could develop the conditions needed to blow in a span of mere decades.

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    OCTOBER 11, 2017

    If the supervolcano underneath Yellowstone erupts again, we may have far less advance warning time than we thought.

    After analyzing minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption, researchers at Arizona State University think the supervolcano last woke up after two influxes of fresh magma flowed into the reservoir below the caldera.

    And in an unsettling twist, the minerals revealed that the critical changes in temperature and composition built up in a matter of decades. Until now, geologists had thought it would take centuries for the supervolcano to make that transition.

    A 2013 study, for instance, showed that the magma reservoir that feeds the supervolcano is about two and a half times larger than previous estimates. Scientists also think the reservoir is drained after every monster blast, so they thought it should take a long time to refill. Based on the new study, it seems the magma can rapidly refresh—making the volcano potentially explosive in the geologic blink of an eye.

    “It’s shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption,” study co-author Hannah Shamloo told the New York Times.

    Still, Yellowstone is one of the best monitored volcanoes in the world, notes Michael Poland, the current Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory for the U.S. Geological Survey. A variety of sensors and satellites are always looking for changes, and right now, the supervolcano does not seem to pose a threat.

    "We see interesting things all the time ... but we haven't seen anything that would lead us to believe that the sort of magmatic event described by the researchers is happening," says Poland via email, adding that the research overall is "somewhat preliminary, but quite tantalizing."

    The new paper adds to a suite of surprises scientists have uncovered over the last few years as they have studied the supervolcano. (Also find out about a supervolcano under Italy that has recently been rumbling.)

    Read more at National Geographic
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    Gotta chime in on this , according to Sfath the great cauldara will erupt , and has been building for thousands of years ... according to the information , they traveled back in time to view the last eruption, made calculations , as well as using their psychic people (their race has gifted individuals like ours) the volcano will will erupt and cause much devastation and cost many lives ... everything is a circle, it builds , it blows, it builds , it blows ... Has always done this and will continue to follow nature’s circle/cycle of life ... They also speak of La Palma in Italy, we are urged to grade down the west side of the mountain to lessen the tsunami that will be created when it erupts ...they say part of the west side will break off and slide into the ocean creating a tsunami that will affect the east coast of America... Even though I keep pressing them, they won’t give the exact date, because warnings were given in the past and mankind took no heed to their warnings... They warn , Yellowstone will blow, Oregon will experience a mega sea quake, a volcano in The Canary Islands will effect America, typhoons, firestorms, floods, will come to America for her reaping of what she has sown across the world , in trying to acheive global domination... they have warned about these events for over 60 years ...
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    Yellowstone supervolcano threat theory 'demonstrably false' - USGS expert to RT

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    Yellowstone National Park, a favored site of supervolcano doomsayers. © Jim Urquhart / Reuters

    If you spend any time on the internet, it seems every few months humanity is faced with a looming existential threat from the depths of space. Planet X/Nibiru, the rapture or a wayward comet are, according to conspiracy theorists, destined to destroy us.

    However, there is one particular conspiracy, treasured by theorists, that our impending doom will come from within planet Earth - that lurking beneath America's Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano that will kill us all.

    Yellowstone, in the midwestern US, is - they claim - about to erupt and send unfathomable amounts of matter into the sky, covering anyone in the vicinity in a pyroclastic flow of ash and rock, and blocking out the sun, wiping out almost all life on Earth in the process.

    Conspiracy theories tend to draw on some grain of truth. The super volcano really has erupted before, three times in fact, over the last 2 billion years or so, but the theory goes that it's bound to do so again soon, right? RT.com caught up with Michael Poland, Scientist-in-Charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, to find out the full extent of this lurking supervolcanic 'threat.'


    Yellowstone National Park © USGS

    Poland specializes in volcano geophysics, particularly in how volcanoes change and behave over time. Using GPS, satellites and other methods, he studies how the surface of Yellowstone National Park moves to figure out what's happening below.


    Firstly, what is a super volcano?
    "Super volcanos, or super eruptions, are these eruptions that are on the eruption intensity scale, there's something called the volcano explosivity index (VEI) and eruptions that have a VEI of eight are considered super eruptions. And that's pretty massive, most eruptions that we see would be VEI three, four. Big ones are five and then once a century or so there's a six, so a VEI eight is really, really tremendous."

    What would it take to cause one?
    "You have to have a really amazing amount of magma in the subsurface, so that's one of the criteria. In order to be able to put all of that stuff onto the surface and into the atmosphere you have to have it below the surface to begin with. And I think that's something that is interesting about Yellowstone. We don't know whether there's enough magma beneath the surface to have a super eruption, the evidence suggests that a lot of the magma reservoir is actually solid, and about 50 percent of it is molten, so there may not be enough down there to have a super eruption."

    With that in mind, what are the odds of Yellowstone blowing it's top?
    "I think the odds of a supereruption in our lifetime, in our children's lifetimes, in our grandchildren's lifetimes are astronomically small. I couldn't even quantify it, it's not something I'm worried about."

    "I find it strange that Yellowstone is the volcano that's 'going to doom humanity.' One of the things that bothers me about that is that there have been super eruptions when humans have been on the planet. There've been two and, in fact, both of those were larger than the last Yellowstone eruption. There was one about 74,000 years ago from Indonesia and there was one 27,000 years ago from New Zealand. Both of those were larger than the last eruption at Yellowstone and humanity survived."

    What about so-called earthquake swarms at Yellowstone? And wasn't there a particularly strong swarm earlier this year, 4.5 on the richter scale?
    "Yeah 4.5 is definitely noticeable, you'd feel it and people did, but there was a 4.8 in 2014 and there was a 7.5 in 1959. Certainly this summer's swarm was really impressive, there were thousands of earthquakes, but that's sort of what Yellowstone does. It has swarms all the time and one of them has to be the largest. I don't see that as something to fear, however, instead I see it as an enormous opportunity for study."

    "The idea that Yellowstone is going to erupt and kill us all is so demonstrably false. There's an odd disconnect I think between common sense and reality and what we know to be true and false based on past events and this irrational fear about yellowstone in particular."
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    Hervé, when I read the article you posted, which seems credible, and then I look at the OP, maybe I am paranoid but I am seeing a threat being made through a media outlet.

    Let me give you another example:

    There was some recent news headline of some trouble in US-UK relations (the headlines go by so quickly these days, I forget which it was). So right after this bit of bad news comes out in regards to US-UK relations, it also comes out that there has been a new discovery, and what do you know? There is a fault line under London after all, and it could erupt any day now! Now what does that sound like to you, if you were a world leader, but a mafia-style threat on the global stage? But this is how the big boys go at it. I'm convinced that the Fukushima disaster was a British/Zionist threat which was acted upon, as another example.

    My point is that natural disasters can be engineered with the right "assistance," and a lot of these prominent outlets like National Geographic are more mouthpieces for big power players than a serious scientific journal or anything like that. So I interpret these big sensationalist headlines as threats of basically environmental terrorism by international actors. Call me paranoid or cynical but I believe that's how they communicate these things, at least in part.

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    I mostly agree with your assessment; there is a cyclical "cycling" of these fearmongering MSM's articles doing the rounds of Yellowstone, Nibiru/Planet X, California "Big One," Tsunamis, sea level rise, etc... among those, there indeed may be some telegraphing of future "sacrifices" via "earthquake machines" or "HAARP" induced weather catastrophes, etc... all high octane speculations until empirically proven.


    Ah, yes I forgot the latest one of these recycled insecurities: EMPs and the danger to the energy grid: some geological feature along I-95 that, maybe, could, would, possibly, etc., amplify the effect of a solar storm on the US East coast grid and fry it out of order... "they" don't even bother to specify the rock type... Is that some encrypted message to some investors as to where to invest their bucks? No idea; but always possible, however it sure sounds like a call for more research and grants $$...
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    For what it's worth, whatever explanation they attribute to it, knocking out the US power grid is apparently already frighteningly easy. My dad got into electrical work for construction companies, and I've seen and read several things from electricians who go so far as to say that they often marvel at how few things ever go wrong on a large scale. If that's something to marvel at, then that tells you something about how fragile the whole system really is.

    On 4chan and 8chan they often circulate screencaps of posts of people claiming to have been involved in Pentagon war-gaming, exploring various scenarios of civil war and social breakdown within the modern US, and a common theme in these posts is that the electrical grid goes down early and hard in any civil war situation, because the US government needs it more than the people who will be fighting the rebellion, and it's incredibly easy to take down. These different posts go into specific detail as to how easy it would be to create nightmare situations for electricians, if someone really wanted. But these guys never mentioned foreign or international interests in taking out the US power grid. I suppose the people who were funding these war game exercises were themselves internationalists/globalists, and their primary concern was always a revolt by millions of patriots.

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    Eruptions continuing into September
    Yellowstone National Park's largest geyser, Steamboat, is puzzling scientists after it erupted for the eighth time since March. The most recent eruption, occurring at 9:04 a.m. on Monday morning (June) shot boiling-hot water hundreds of feet into the air, followed by hours of steam billowing out from the geyser.

    Steamboat Geyser, unlike the regular Old Faithful Geyser, erupts very infrequently. Before this string of eruptions, Steamboat last erupted in 2014. Scientists are unsure why all of a sudden the geyser is experiencing a string of eruptions, something that has happened in the past but not for decades.

    Steamboat is a larger and more powerful version of Old Faithful, shooting nearly boiling-hot water up to 345 feet into the air. According to the USGS, it appears there is an approximate periodicity of eruptions every 7 to 8 days. To study the geyser, geologists with the University of Utah set up seismic arrays across the geyser to capture the rumbling during eruptions. Their hope is to reconstruct the "plumbing" of the geyser by measuring the sound waves as they travel through the geyser up to the seismic sensors.

    ref: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorn.../#d30d502c025f



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    Posted: Sep 18, 2018 10:44 AM MDT

    YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (KIFI/KIDK) - The Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupted for the 19th time in 2018 Monday morning.

    According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the geyser erupted at 9:37 a.m. and went off for an hour and 15 minutes.

    Yellowstone National Park reports this is the most active year for Steamboat since 1982.

    Quote USGS said the geyser has decided to follow a semi-regular pattern of erupting about every 5 days over the past few weeks.

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    from https://geysertimes.org/geyser.php?id=Steamboat

    This page lists the times it has erupted recently

    This is what a seismographic looked like when it erupted about 28 days ago:


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    Yes Bob, it can be quite worrying when you think we are hurtling through space on a pressure cooker of a time bomb,
    all the while also hoping, some other as of yet unknown celestial body isn't planing on playing snooker with us 0.O

    That's quite a powerful leak in the old boiler for sure, very impressive

    It reminds me I haven't had my first cup of tea of the morning yet, time to put the kettle on ha
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    Just to add perspective to this :

    Explosions are often unpredictable but scientists say activity has ramped up in 2018 as Steamboat Geyser “appears to have entered a phase of more frequent water eruptions, much like it did in the 1960s and early 1980s”.

    In comparison, eruptions between 1990 and 2013 were few and the geyser lay completely dormant between 1911 and 1961.

    The height of the eruption has not yet been revealed but a geyser eruption on June 4 scaled 60 metres (200 ft).

    What dates did the geyser erupt in 2018?

    This is the entire list of eruptions by Steamboat this year in MDT:

    March 15, 5.37am

    April 19, 4.30pm

    April 27, 6.30am

    May 4, 11.50pm

    May 13, 3.54am

    May 19, 9.49pm

    May 27, 7.33pm

    June 4, 9.05am

    June 11, 1.06am

    June 15, 4.55pm

    July 6, 1.38pm

    July 20, 10.36pm

    August 4, 2.10pm

    August 22, 11.44am

    August 27, 9.30pm

    September 1, 11.21pm

    September 7, 10.20am

    September 12, 4.23am

    September 17, 9.38am

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...ecent-activity

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    It is predicted the great Caldara will erupt and destroy 2/3 of America.
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    It would seem to me Ramus, something shifted allowing for groundwater to have entry in the plumbing system..

    What shifted, and is it the same thing that shifted? Seems 345 feet into the air (as seen in the example video in the OP post #1) is a substantial amount of water if the eruptions are lasting about an hour each..

    If it were earthquake related, what was the source of the earthquakes, an elevation in the magma dome primarily driving Yellowstone? Or something local more superficial like normal faults under stress releasing. Was there a change in Yellowstone lake or the surrounding banks? Any other geysers change their characteristic?

    Seems SteamBoat has some strong interest and not just being one's run-of-the-mill geological formation...

    The Yellowstone caldera system has fascinated me ever since I got up there to take a look first hand.. It's most certainly big, widespread out.. And most certainly there is enough energy there to power the whole USA (if it could be extracted) perpetually in a GREEN WAY without ever having to rely on OIL, or WIND, or SOLAR.. Think about that optimistically, forever energy power for the USA.. If it could be harnessed greenly and then distributed.

    I'd prefer to be optimistic and not focus on well it could destroy 2/3 of the USA. It (paraphrasing a bit, the 'snake' down there) has that much power, maybe it's saying time to start using it instead of running away from it... (that's just me again, looking for optimism)..
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    Major eruptions at Steamboat Geyser are the tallest in the world. This feature first appeared on 11 August 1878 after a hydrothermal explosion. This was similar to, but larger than, the 5 September 1989 Porkchop Geyser hydrothermal explosion event, which occurred in the same geyser basin. Steamboat Geyser consists of two vents in a gentle hillside of rhyolitic ash-flow tuff (Lava Creek Tuff, lower Middle Pleistocene, 640 ka). Initially, the vents were powerful fumaroles that emitted steam and some mud. By 1879, moderately high to high geyser eruptions occurred. Small to large eruptions occurred at Steamboat Geyser from the late 1870s to the early 1910s. This was followed by 50 years of dormancy. Geyser eruptions resumed in the 1960s. Dormancy occurred during the early and mid-1970s. More major eruptions occurred in the early 1980s, followed by sporadic to rare events from the mid-1980s to the 2000s. One major eruption occurred in May 2005. Another one occurred at the end of July in 2013. The most recent major eruption was in September 2014.

    https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/...-Yellowstone-t

    Why we don’t need to worry about the Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone - a chance to see it if you visit Yellowstone, that’s all
    Robert Walker

    The Yellowstone geysers are nothing at all to do with eruptions. They happen all the time, that’s just what they do, some are irregular. It is to do with how quickly the reservoir fills up with water again after each geyser event. All that just happening in the surface layers, with no connection at all with the subsurface magma
    All this is happening in the top 100 meters or so.

    The magma chamber is much deeper with lots of layers of rock in between.

    .“Steamboat Geyser, in the Norris Geyser Basin, appears to have entered a phase of more frequent water eruptions, much like it did in the 1960s and early 1980s. Although these eruptions do not have any implications for future volcanic activity at Yellowstone (after all, geysers are supposed to erupt, and most are erratic, like Steamboat), they are nonetheless spectacular, and hopefully many people will have a chance to see Steamboat in eruption during the summer of 2018.”

    Yellowstone Volcano Observatory News Archive

    Yellowstone shows no signs of a supereruption right now. Not likely in our lifetimes and probably not going to happen for 1000 years.

    It’s also possible that it has finished its supereruption phase for its current magma chamber - and would start a new one which would do a super-eruption perhaps millions of years into the future.

    The magma plume below it moves West to East and as it does so new magma chambers form. When the current magma chamber has finished its phase, then the last point is that it breaks open and large amounts of basalt start poruing out - not an explosive eruption, just lots of ordinary lava. When that happens they will know that this magma chamber is done with and then there will be no more for a long time until it starts to build the next one.

    Answering questions from general public about Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. With Mike Poland (geodisy), Wendy Stowall (geology) and Jamie Farrell (seismology)

    Transcript on this page:

    Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Scientists Host Facebook Live Event

    It was posted in USGS Volcanoes originally apparently

    USGS Volcanoes?

    Note that from that transcript they don’t know if Yellowstone will have another super-eruption in its present location. It may be about to move to the final stage of the magma coming to the surface as lava flows and basalt

    I wanted to address too, it looks like Brittany Paddock’s 6th grade science class has chimed in with a couple of questions. “When do we think Yellowstone will erupt again, like a big explosion, and how much ash would be released?” And this sort of gets back to what Wendy was addressing at the very beginning.

    Wendy: Yeah, so we really don’t even know if the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field as it is now will ever erupt in a super eruption again. It’s gone through three caldera-forming cycles, it could mean that it’s done. We do know that there’s magma under the ground, we know there’s basaltic magma coming in and sitting underneath the larger rhyolite body. This is the basaltic magma. When the Yellowstone volcanic field is done, we will see eruptions kind of like the ones that are in Hawaii at the surface inside the caldera. We’ll know that it’s done then. The volcanic field that is a little bit to the west of Yellowstone, the Heise volcanic field, that was the one that erupted just before this Yellowstone volcanic field, and there have been basaltic eruptions in that. So that’s kind of the next stage in the cycle.

    Mike: The basalt sort of squirts through up to the surface.

    Wendy: Yeah, and the reason why it can get up to the surface is because the rhyolite body, that spongy body of partial melt isn’t sitting there blocking the basalts to get up to the surface. But right now it’s preventing it from getting there, so it’s supplying heat by there’s no sign that it’s gonna erupt. We’re not sure if it will. And the ash will, depending on the size of the next super eruption, which may be hundreds of thousands of years if not millions of years away, go much further to the west [east] than we are currently seeing activity now, who knows if people will be here, but the next super eruption form that system will send ash into the atmosphere, and yeah, it’ll be a nuisance for people thousands of miles away, but it won’t be life ending.

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