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    Default The Yellowstone Seismic Activity Thread

    As we all know, there is a ton of seismic activity going on in the world right now. Almost a ridiculous amount. Many people on the forums have expressed some fear/interest about the Yellowstone National Park Volcano erupting soon as we are near due for a huge one. Well, folks, things are heating up. There were 20-30 small quakes yesterday and 31 on Saturday.

    I figured it is time that we have an official thread tracking this activity as things heat up. First, here is a small article mentioning the activity in the last few days:

    Quote http://trib.com/news/state-and-regio...62b6892e8.html

    'Swarm of earthquakes in Yellowstone Park'

    June 3, 2014 5:30 pm

    Seismographs have picked up a swarm of earthquakes in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park, including dozens early Tuesday.

    The University of Utah Seismograph Station reported five small earthquakes including those with magnitudes of 3.4, 2.7 and 3.2 in a 20-minute period starting at 3:33 a.m. in an area 16 to 18 miles south of Gardiner.

    Earthquake information specialist Paul Roberson said there were another 20 to 30 small quakes Tuesday morning that hadn't yet been posted on the university's website. He called it a fairly normal swarm for Yellowstone. He didn't expect there to be any damage.

    Seismographs recorded 31 quakes in the same area south of Gardiner on Saturday, while another 23 were reported last Wednesday and Thursday in an area between 18 and 19 miles east-southeast of West Yellowstone.
    I got the following information off of the official "seismic activity for Yellowstone Park" page: http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/...llowstone.html

    Quote 3.4 2014/06/04 15:22:31 44.787N 110.765W 9.2 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.7 2014/06/04 09:25:44 44.804N 110.762W 6.6 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    2.5 2014/06/04 09:20:57 44.800N 110.772W 6.2 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.3 2014/06/04 08:57:50 44.791N 110.775W 6.3 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.6 2014/06/04 06:34:10 44.802N 110.773W 4.6 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    3.5 2014/06/04 06:16:03 44.788N 110.766W 7.7 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.7 2014/06/04 06:12:47 44.785N 110.760W 4.5 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.9 2014/06/04 05:59:32 44.786N 110.775W 3.5 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.8 2014/06/04 05:51:12 44.798N 110.766W 4.0 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.9 2014/06/04 03:31:04 44.785N 110.768W 4.8 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.3 2014/06/04 03:30:51 44.805N 110.766W 4.8 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.3 2014/06/04 02:52:10 44.819N 110.746W 8.4 24 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.9 2014/06/04 00:34:51 44.601N 110.710W 7.7 32 km (20 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.2 2014/06/03 21:20:46 44.791N 110.769W 4.8 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.1 2014/06/03 21:20:25 44.784N 110.772W 2.4 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.4 2014/06/03 20:46:30 44.780N 110.767W 3.9 29 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    2.0 2014/06/03 20:35:36 44.785N 110.774W 3.9 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.5 2014/06/03 20:23:57 44.804N 110.765W 5.1 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.2 2014/06/03 20:21:16 44.834N 110.745W 6.6 23 km (14 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.4 2014/06/03 19:56:57 44.782N 110.772W 4.4 29 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.3 2014/06/03 19:56:42 44.811N 110.757W 7.0 25 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.9 2014/06/03 19:53:18 44.786N 110.769W 4.4 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.4 2014/06/03 19:50:15 44.793N 110.766W 4.3 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.5 2014/06/03 19:32:26 44.816N 110.756W 7.2 25 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    2.0 2014/06/03 19:31:08 44.800N 110.769W 5.0 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.9 2014/06/03 19:26:15 44.801N 110.762W 5.6 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.8 2014/06/03 19:21:37 44.782N 110.771W 3.2 29 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.2 2014/06/03 19:02:19 44.818N 110.746W 7.3 24 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    2.4 2014/06/03 18:58:31 44.782N 110.766W 4.8 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.6 2014/06/03 18:32:42 44.803N 110.754W 6.4 26 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    3.1 2014/06/03 03:52:52 44.783N 110.759W 7.6 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    3.4 2014/06/03 03:33:27 44.796N 110.766W 10.3 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    3.5 2014/05/31 16:25:00 44.791N 110.776W 4.7 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    That is only in the past 4 days! This seems like something to keep track of, yes?
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    I also realize this next one is from March 30, 2014, but it is still worth posting in this thread to keep our information in one place here:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2U01920140331

    Quote Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years

    (Reuters) - Yellowstone National Park, which sits atop one of the world's largest super-volcanoes, was struck on Sunday by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, the biggest recorded there since February 1980, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.

    The tremor, a relatively light event by seismic standards, struck the northwest corner of the park and capped a flurry of smaller quakes at Yellowstone since Thursday, geologists at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations said in a statement.

    The latest earthquake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the Norris Geyser Basin and was felt about 23 miles away in two small Montana towns adjacent to year-around entrances to the park - Gardiner and West Yellowstone.

    The national park spans 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km) of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and draws about 3 million visitors each year to its iconic geysers and wildlife attractions, including bison.

    A U.S. Geological Survey team planned to tour the Norris Geyser Basin on Sunday to determine if the quake altered any of Yellowstone's geothermal features, such as geysers, mud pots and hot springs.

    Several people reported having felt shaking they compared to the rumble of a tractor-trailer truck driving by, and a few items fell off the shelves at a local grocery store, a West Yellowstone police dispatcher said.

    About 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes strike Yellowstone each year, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a research partnership of the park, the University of Utah and the U.S. Geological Survey.

    The ancient super-volcano, or caldera, that lies beneath the surface of the park was discovered by scientists in recent years to be 2.5 times larger than previously thought, measured at 30 miles wide, according to the park.

    Sunday's quake occurred near the center of an area of ground uplift that geologists have been tracking for several months, University of Utah seismologists said. Elevated seismic activity was also found in the area during a previous period of uplift from 1996 to 2003.

    The recent spike in earthquake activity at Yellowstone is linked to the uplift, which in turn is caused by the upward movement of molten rock beneath the Earth's crust, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

    Fortunately, there was no indication that the recent seismic activity signaled an impending eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, scientists said.

    Researchers with the observatory have said in the past that catastrophic eruptions by the super-volcano are unlikely for tens of thousands of years, though less extreme lava releases could occur within thousands of years.

    The super-volcano's most cataclysmic eruption occurred 2 million years ago, covering half of North America with ash and killing prehistoric animals as far as away as modern-day Nebraska, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

    Heat from a vast chamber of molten rock beneath the caldera fuels the park's famous geothermal features, including Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone scientists say.
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    Default Re: The Yellowstone Seismic Activity Thread


    Here are some daily thumbs, if you are interested in Yellowstone. The map above represents the individual park stations.

    http://www.isthisthingon.org/Yellowstone/daythumbs.php
    Terra

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    @Zaya

    Hi Zaya- I truly hope this finds you well;

    the concept of the awaking of Yellowstone has always held my attention probably more than anything else since I first learned about it (like forget the banking system/geopolitics in comparison);

    as an 11 yr. old lad I saw a Hollywood cheap B/C movie entitled "Devil at 4 O'clock" which had to do with a volcanic eruption on an island that just completely devastated everybody/anything except for a chosen few (I'm sure you're able to read the lines between otherwise you wouldn't be on this forum); this film scared the "s**t" out of me and I've never forgotten it; why?- I was always a very perceptive kid (sadly, not much has changed in my life in this perspective)-

    as so many have stated: 'it's a fallacy to believe that no natural catastrophe could ever occur again'; absolutely right-

    I'm certainly anything but a prophet of doom and gloom (anything but) but I tend to think we must watch Yellowstone very carefully and those in the vicinity simply must have 'quick and facile' exit plans in place-

    contrary to what Bill Ryan has stated, I'm not yet convinced all the "Indigo" children being born on this planet at this time are here to progress us to the 'next level'-

    it could be they're here to simply help us through the next mega natural catastrophe; but I hope I'm totally wrong-

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    Quote Posted by Cardillac (here)
    @Zaya

    Hi Zaya- I truly hope this finds you well;

    the concept of the awaking of Yellowstone has always held my attention probably more than anything else since I first learned about it (like forget the banking system/geopolitics in comparison);

    as an 11 yr. old lad I saw a Hollywood cheap B/C movie entitled "Devil at 4 O'clock" which had to do with a volcanic eruption on an island that just completely devastated everybody/anything except for a chosen few (I'm sure you're able to read the lines between otherwise you wouldn't be on this forum); this film scared the "s**t" out of me and I've never forgotten it; why?- I was always a very perceptive kid (sadly, not much has changed in my life in this perspective)-

    as so many have stated: 'it's a fallacy to believe that no natural catastrophe could ever occur again'; absolutely right-

    I'm certainly anything but a prophet of doom and gloom (anything but) but I tend to think we must watch Yellowstone very carefully and those in the vicinity simply must have 'quick and facile' exit plans in place-

    contrary to what Bill Ryan has stated, I'm not yet convinced all the "Indigo" children being born on this planet at this time are here to progress us to the 'next level'-

    it could be they're here to simply help us through the next mega natural catastrophe; but I hope I'm totally wrong-

    Larry
    Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Larry. Interesting though on the Indigos considering I believe I could be one of them... My interpretation of our job here has been more about energy work and being a major aid in the balancing act of positivity and negativity here on earth, but really it is all open to interpretation!

    I agree, though, that we should be monitoring it closely (hence the thread). Especially with the amount of earthquakes occurring not only there but in other parts of the US (obviously including the LA quakes.) I want to see if I can find any numbers out there for total US earthquakes this year compared to other years...

    What seems clear to me is that some kind of natural disaster is imminent. The earth seems unstable as do the citizens (in a big way). The energy right now is overwhelmingly a distressful one. I do not think it should be ignored...
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    @Zaya

    many thanks for your latest posting- couldn't agree with you more;

    if you feel you are an Indigo may God (or whatever) be with you-

    as for myself, I hardly think I'm an Indigo (or maybe I missed something somewhere) but ever since my childhood I've questioned everything (continues to this day) but my curiosity/yearning for learning was first beat out of me by parents and subsequently through society but somehow managed to survive;

    "The energy right now is overwhelmingly a distressful one. I do not think it should be ignored..."- no s**t-

    "What seems clear to me is that some kind of natural disaster is imminent"- I agree; but it is yet unclear as to if it will be on the scope of Yellowstone

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    Quote Posted by Cardillac (here)
    if you feel you are an Indigo may God (or whatever) be with you-
    So true :-/. I do believe that I am. I have been reading a book called "Adult Indigos" and it leads some insight into what it means to be one, and yea... godspeed and all that ha.

    Quote Posted by Cardillac (here)
    "What seems clear to me is that some kind of natural disaster is imminent"- I agree; but it is yet unclear as to if it will be on the scope of Yellowstone
    Agree. I do not know if this is it. Unfortunately it could be anything. I am definitely not a clairvoyant. I am extremely empathic and intuitive, but not a seer of any kind, so I do not claim to have any kind of insider info on any sort of future event. I just have this nagging feeling, and I just happened to see that article on the 30 earthquakes that just happened there this morning, and it made me feel compelled to make a thread dedicated to discussion of Yellowstone seismic activity since there was not a specific one. Really we could be in for one hell of a ride and it could be ANY combination of things or events. We must keep vigilant either way.
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    I've been following pattie brassard (I know, many think she's a nut case) on fb, and she does post some interesting things about an eminent Yellowstone eruption. I know she's really into fearporn, but I am drawn to her page nonetheless. I was hoping someone on Avalon would start a thread about Yellowstone, so thank-you very much Zaya!

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    I found an interesting video on another site showing what the Norris Basin Yellowstone Geysers are doing right now. Apparently, the USGS has stopped reporting on geyser temps and activity. This is (allegedly) the most recent footage of the geyser activity.

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    From the USGS website, the "Hazards" section pertaining to Yellowstone. (Note that right now, it is labeled as GREEN in terms of threat level, that is to say "not a threat").

    Quote The Yellowstone Plateau in the northern Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho is centered on a youthful, active volcanic system with subterranean magma (molten rock), boiling, pressurized waters, and a variety of active faults with significant earthquake hazard. Within the next few decades, large and moderate earthquakes and hydrothermal explosions are certain to occur. Volcanic eruptions are less likely, but are ultimately inevitable in this active volcanic region.
    Over the past 2.1 million years Yellowstone volcano has had three immense explosive volcanic eruptions that blanketed parts of the North American continent with ash and debris. Each of these eruptions created sizable calderas: basins formed by collapse of the ground after evacuation of subsurface magma reservoirs. The Yellowstone Caldera, which comprises nearly one-third of the land area in the park, formed 0.64 million years ago and was followed by dozens of less explosive but large lava flows, the last of which erupted 70,000 years ago. Basin and Range extension of the western U.S. has created a series of regional faults that are responsible for large and devastating earthquakes in the Yellowstone region along the Teton and Hebgen Lake Faults; most recently a devastating Ms 7.5 earthquake in 1959 killed 28 people. Yellowstone’s famous geothermal waters create fabulous hot springs and geysers but occasionally explode catastrophically to create hydrothermal explosion craters found throughout the park.
    Source: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/...hazard_42.html
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    Nothing too serious going on in the past few days... Seems to have been pretty calm since the 4th of June, 2014.

    Quote 1.4 2014/06/11 00:40:09 44.799N 110.766W 6.2 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.8 2014/06/10 19:09:10 44.867N 110.686W 3.6 19 km (12 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    2.2 2014/06/09 02:43:46 44.791N 110.768W 4.8 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.1 2014/06/08 18:48:40 44.793N 110.757W 4.5 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.6 2014/06/08 13:46:43 44.791N 110.764W 4.9 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.1 2014/06/07 15:25:07 44.828N 110.736W 7.8 23 km (14 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.1 2014/06/07 14:55:05 44.816N 110.738W 7.3 25 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.2 2014/06/07 11:49:00 44.797N 110.755W 5.8 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.3 2014/06/07 10:30:51 44.759N 111.147W 16.1 11 km ( 7 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.6 2014/06/07 10:30:36 44.760N 111.118W 12.0 11 km ( 7 mi) N of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.1 2014/06/07 05:57:17 44.867N 111.256W 11.0 26 km (16 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.1 2014/06/07 01:53:52 44.794N 110.759W 4.7 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.7 2014/06/06 07:54:36 44.434N 111.291W 23.8 8 km ( 5 mi) SSE of Island Park, ID
    1.2 2014/06/06 07:12:36 44.799N 110.748W 5.2 27 km (16 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.6 2014/06/06 05:43:42 44.800N 110.769W 5.6 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.5 2014/06/05 21:05:55 44.790N 110.766W 4.5 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.5 2014/06/05 19:32:37 44.818N 110.753W 8.7 24 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.5 2014/06/05 19:19:34 44.826N 110.746W 7.4 24 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.4 2014/06/05 14:25:20 44.814N 110.746W 7.5 25 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.5 2014/06/05 00:05:43 44.788N 110.758W 4.3 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.1 2014/06/04 20:41:37 44.596N 110.730W 6.7 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.7 2014/06/04 20:32:42 44.607N 110.709W 9.7 32 km (20 mi) E of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.2 2014/06/04 19:09:04 44.801N 110.782W 4.1 27 km (17 mi) SSW of Gardiner, MT
    1.0 2014/06/04 19:04:59 44.792N 110.783W 3.2 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.5 2014/06/04 17:53:52 44.781N 110.769W 3.1 29 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.0 2014/06/04 16:17:25 44.735N 110.797W 8.0 26 km (16 mi) ENE of West Yellowstone, MT
    3.4 2014/06/04 15:22:31 44.787N 110.765W 9.2 28 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.8 2014/06/04 15:21:25 44.785N 110.775W 1.9 28 km (18 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    1.3 2014/06/04 15:14:49 44.821N 110.744W 7.7 24 km (15 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
    0.8 2014/06/04 14:12:49 44.792N 110.765W 4.7 27 km (17 mi) S of Gardiner, MT
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    Seems to be picking up activity a tiny bit. Still nothing over a 2.5, but definitely a tad more active this week.

    Quote 0.9 2014/07/06 18:18:57 44.749N 111.114W 6.7 10 km ( 6 mi) N of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.0 2014/07/06 10:04:00 44.579N 110.729W 8.7 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.4 2014/07/06 10:03:18 44.588N 110.728W 8.6 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.2 2014/07/06 09:53:20 44.601N 110.721W 9.1 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.5 2014/07/06 09:50:20 44.580N 110.748W 8.9 30 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.6 2014/07/06 09:49:28 44.587N 110.736W 9.1 30 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.9 2014/07/06 09:48:06 44.551N 110.786W 8.5 28 km (18 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.8 2014/07/06 09:47:46 44.578N 110.739W 7.9 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.5 2014/07/06 09:46:42 44.561N 110.739W 4.7 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.5 2014/07/06 09:46:12 44.584N 110.719W -0.1 32 km (20 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.0 2014/07/06 09:45:31 44.575N 110.742W 8.2 30 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.9 2014/07/06 09:44:10 44.588N 110.728W 8.0 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.1 2014/07/06 09:42:58 44.596N 110.723W 9.1 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.6 2014/07/06 09:41:53 44.575N 110.732W 6.3 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.3 2014/07/06 09:41:33 44.580N 110.730W 5.7 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.7 2014/07/06 09:41:11 44.581N 110.736W 8.7 31 km (19 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.7 2014/07/03 04:09:36 44.770N 111.193W 10.8 14 km ( 9 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.2 2014/07/03 04:09:24 44.761N 111.174W 7.7 12 km ( 8 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.2 2014/07/03 04:08:25 44.772N 111.171W 8.3 13 km ( 8 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.1 2014/07/03 04:08:01 44.768N 111.216W 13.3 15 km ( 9 mi) NW of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.4 2014/07/02 22:40:50 44.594N 111.115W 9.1 8 km ( 5 mi) S of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.9 2014/07/02 12:41:24 44.767N 111.162W 13.2 13 km ( 8 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.7 2014/07/02 10:47:30 44.767N 111.075W 6.5 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
    0.7 2014/07/02 09:35:36 44.764N 111.150W 10.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.3 2014/07/01 14:28:10 44.465N 110.960W 8.0 25 km (15 mi) SSE of West Yellowstone, MT
    1.3 2014/07/01 14:22:49 44.462N 110.970W 7.7 25 km (15 mi) SSE of West Yellowstone, MT
    2.1 2014/07/01 01:31:51 44.783N 111.162W 13.9 14 km ( 9 mi) NNW of West Yellowstone, MT
    (Source: http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/...llowstone.html)
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    Yellowstone supervolcano 'turned the asphalt into soup' shutting down Natl. Park's roads

    "Extreme heat from a massive supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park is melting a major roadway at the popular summertime tourist attraction. Park officials have closed the area to visitors.

    Firehole Lake Drive, a 3-mile-plus offshoot of the park’s Grand Loop that connects the Old Faithful geyser and the Madison Junction, is currently off limits. Park operators say the danger of stepping on seemingly solid soil into severely hot water is “high.”

    “It basically turned the asphalt into soup. It turned the gravel road into oatmeal,” Yellowstone spokesman Dan Hottle said.

    The affected roadway offers access to the Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser, and Firehole Lake.

    “There are plenty of other great places to see thermal features in the park,” park public affairs chief Al Nash told The Weather Channel. “I wouldn’t risk personal injury to see these during this temporary closure.”

    While thermal activity under the park often gives way to temperature fluctuations that can soften asphalt throughout Yellowstone, Hottle said the latest wave seems worse than usual.

    “But it’s hard to tell if a thermal area is hotter than normal, because it’s always fluctuating here,” he said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Road closures are business as usual for us.” "

    " Maintenance workers now must lift the melted asphalt from the roadway, then apply sand and lime to soak up any remains, according to Hottle.

    The spokesman said he hopes the road will be reopened by next week, adding that he does not believe the activity will significantly curb visits to the park.

    Yellowstone’s supervolcano last erupted about 640,000 years ago, according to US Geological Survey records.

    Last December, geologists reported that the magma reservoir under the supervolcano is two-and-a-half times larger than previous estimates.

    "That's not to say it's getting any bigger,” said analysis team scientist James Farrell of the University of Utah. “It's just that our ability to see it is getting better."

    The supervolcano has the potential to spew more than 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic kilometers) of magma across Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.

    "We believe it will erupt again someday, but we have no idea when," Farrell told National Geographic.

    In March, a viral video of bison stampeding through the park gave rise to rumors of an imminent eruption. "


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    Wow! Thanks for posting this... I can feel it in my bones.. Yellowstone is up to something.

    Here's a photo of the melting road (though it doesn't look like soup exactly, but it certainly looks MELTY):


    Reminds me... I read this article the other day:

    Quote Scientists Report Yellowstone supervolcano bigger than previously thought

    YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -
    The world's authority on Yellowstone National Park’s supervolcano says it's more than twice as big as scientists once thought.

    Millions of people visit Yellowstone each year to see its geysers, fumaroles, hot springs and mud pots. It's the largest concentration of thermal features in the world.

    The park sits on top of the world's largest active volcano -- the supervolcano. Its most recent eruption was more than 600,000 years ago. All that remains is the top, or caldera.

    A map of the park with an overlay of the caldera shows it’s huge.

    "Anytime you come to Yellowstone you have to drive uphill,” explained supervolcano scientist Dr. Robert Smith. “And the reason is this giant plume of magma is very hot, therefore it's ebullient, it’s low density and it just lifts the surface up."

    Smith has been studying Yellowstone's earthquakes and its supervolcanoes for almost 60 years.

    "And these giant eruptions in Yellowstone – the supervolcano, if you wish -- probably last many, many months, maybe even years," Smith said.

    Not only that, they're huge, thousands of times as large as Mount St. Helens.

    Smith and his students use seismographs to map the magma pool underneath Yellowstone's volcano and satellites to determine how much the land swells or bulges.

    They found that the magma is, "2.5 times larger than we had originally imaged," Smith said.

    The magma movement is signaled by earthquakes.

    Smith mentioned the 4.8 magnitude Norris-area earthquake that damaged Lake Hotel last spring. "It's the biggest earthquake in 30 years."

    So, how likely is it that the big one will blow soon?

    "If we were to have another big eruption, it would affect a large area, on the order of several states,” Smith said. “But, as I said, that probability is very, very, very, very small. In my calculations, it's .0001 percent."

    Smith says the magma pool isn't getting bigger. His team added more seismographs, and they're getting a clearer picture of the magma.
    Source:

    There is also a video on the source page that I cannot embed here.

    UPDATE:

    Wow. Since you bumped this and I did a little digging I am seeing even more recent evidence that this baby could blow... I just found a strange article where they claim the national guard are going to Yellowstone POSSIBLY for such an event...

    Also found this quite interesting video:



    This talks about the firehole lake, the melting road, and the the 53 tremors in the past few days...

    Here is the real kicker.....



    This is the video that leaked showing the National Guard preparing for a "Yellowstone Event" Granted, I don't know that it is specific enough to prove anything, but an interesting thing nonetheless... Something to think about.
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    Quote Posted by Zaya (here)
    This is the video that leaked showing the National Guard preparing for a "Yellowstone Event" Granted, I don't know that it is specific enough to prove anything, but an interesting thing nonetheless... Something to think about.
    I have been following the Yellowstone activity also. When I first began thinking about this potentialfor a major blow out, it seemed that IF it was a "small" volcanic event (as it has been in the past...small being relative), the immediate area would not support life. So, I wonder why National Gaurd being at Yellowstone is logical for any 'event" preparation. That is because miles from even a small event would be basically a 100% death zone from what I have read.

    If one is concerned about Yellowstone, the best is move far east or south away from Yellowstone? It may be that far east US will be livable? Also, to still live nearby AND believe it is about to blow seems bound to create so many stress hormones that IF I did live nearby, I would stop believing myself in its danger. The National Gaurd IF the government is concerned it will blow soon would seem more reasonably to LEAVE the immediate area and not go TO the area.

    So, in my mind, the placement of National Gaurd TO the area is actually support IMO that (maybe stupidly) the government has no concern that the super volcano is about to blow.

    IMO the only good use of this story of yellowstone is to look at the way we have a civilization built in this kind of area. I look at this all as either learning to be unconcerned as in"so it goes" and forget the threat or actually respond reasonably by leaving the large zone around it. From all that I have read, at the moment there is no technology that can release the building pressure.

    Then there is also the way we use these stories, looking at something we cannot control and maybe "transcending" our immediate physical focus. These events have happened and they have reason for the earth (IMO a sentient being with her own needs). Maybe a meta physical approach is gratitude and a relationship created?
    Communication capacity of speaking warmly nd lovingly and listening to the earth about what we should do seems REAL IMO (to me). I feel earth loves us. I think it is appropriate to say "I am VERY grateful in the way you are able to act to release pressure of your crust in small ways so life can be accommodated on your surface!!!!! Whre should i live to best leave roomfor you AND me?" IMO, it is realistic to send continuous appreciation for the way earth DOES gently respond to the necessary release of energy and DOES shift in her activity as gently as possible.

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    I have heard so many times that Yellowstone was about to erupt.

    Anyone care to comment on the new "scare".



    "Published on Apr 11, 2016
    More and more changes are being reported and this time the report comes from one of our subscribers at Bunker Report on Facebook. An article from The Billings Gazette tells the recent story of a Cody photographer who has lived in the area all of his life. He reports changes he has never seen before.
    STAY AT THE READY..."



    Panic? Yellowstone Seismographs Taken Down—I Called To Ask Why and Here’s What The Seismologist Said
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    I've always felt the Yellowstone caldera could be the biggest natural event that could pose a threat to the existence of humanity at least in the northern hemisphere;

    if my read sources are correct the Yellowstone caldera is much larger than originally assumed and if geologists have correct information Yellowstone blows ca. every 360.000 yrs; according to their sources the next eruption in over-due-

    if my read sources are correct Yellowstone began awakening in the 1920's (the slow tipping of the lake from north to south began at that time)-

    don't know if my sources are reliable but supposedly the geyser know as 'old faithfull' has become very erratic meaning something is afoot in this area;

    Yellowstone has always been one of my pet peeves (a real/major threat); our planet has experienced many catastrophes in the past and for any of us to believe that a major catastrophe could never, ever affect us again is, in my humble opinion, not in touch with reality-

    "saving the planet" is our planet's job (once our planet has had enough of us human parasites), not ours-

    just my humble/cheap opinion-

    please be well all-

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    The article referenced in the YouTube video in post #1 is this one:

    http://trib.com/news/state-and-regio...a0634ecbb.html

    Boiling to life: Hydrothermal feature roils Shoshone River in Cody









    Maybe it could be called Colter’s Heck.

    A small hydrothermal feature spouted to life March 25 in the Shoshone River where it meanders through Cody — just east of Yellowstone National Park’s more famous geyser features — spewing a brew of heated gases into the water for about four days.

    “I was surprised to see it,” said Dewey Vanderhoff, a Cody photographer, who captured shots of the venting. “I’ve lived here all of my life and I’ve never seen it.”

    Hot past

    The Cody region was once called Colter’s Hell in memory of early explorer and trapper John Colter. He visited the region in the early 1800s after finishing a cross-country trek with two guys named Lewis and Clark. Colter noted the Cody-area geysers, hot springs and sulfurous smelling river and he told others. Back then the Shoshone River was known as the Stinkingwater or Stinking river for its sulfurous smell.

    Over the ages, most of those hydrothermal features have subsided, although geyser cones, hot springs, sinkholes, a sulfur-permeated spring and an abandoned sulfur mine and mill still stand testament to the area’s more active past.

    “We’re kind of in a lull compared to when John Colter was in this area,” said Jason Burkhardt, a Cody-based fisheries biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. “There was substantially more geothermal activity that was occurring back then.”

    Plume

    Vanderhoff said he found out about the plume when a friend telephoned on Monday morning and joked that he had “proof positive” that the Yellowstone supervolcano was about to blow. His friend said a fissure had opened up in the river and “we’re all about to die,” Vanderhoff recounted.

    So Vanderhoff grabbed his camera and went to snap some photos. The vent was just behind the Best of the West store, down inside the narrow canyon that the Shoshone River has carved through the Chugwater geologic formation’s red stone. He said there was an old rock feature about the size of a bathtub with water gurgling out from four or five holes — “like jets in a Jacuzzi.” He said the plume appeared to have a “substance” like Jell-O since it didn’t break up.

    “It was pretty impressive,” he said. “The river right there is a really dark green. With a polarizing filter it really popped out.”

    Vanderhoff posted images of the vent and the yellowish plume it sent downstream on his Facebook page. The posting received 2,000 views, which Vanderhoff called “unprecedented” for his page.

    By Wednesday, though, the venting had stopped, prompting Vanderhoff to call it a “transient geologic phenomenon.” Then on Friday the venting started again, so Vanderhoff grabbed his video camera this time.

    Old story

    Burkhardt said such vents are nothing new along the Shoshone River below Buffalo Bill Dam, which is about 4 miles west of Cody.

    “There are a number of springs that add hydrogen sulfide water to the river,” he said. “At certain times of the year it is lethal to fish.”

    Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless gas that smells like rotten eggs.

    In one stretch of the river through town, Burkhardt said surveys by his crew pick up no fish — a river dead zone — because of the high hydrogen sulfide content in the water. That concentration eventually dissipates about 1.5 miles downstream from DeMaris hot spring, he said.

    So for most of the year, except during high water flows in the spring, fish just below the dam and fish downstream of the hot springs are largely separate populations because of what Burkhardt called a chemical barrier.

    Despite the chemicals in the water, Burkhardt said there’s never been any evidence they accumulate in fish to the point that they are dangerous for humans or animals to consume.

    The Department of Environmental Quality took water samples above and below the feature in 2012, but not of what the vent emits, and found a slight increase in the water’s pH from mildly basic to mildly acidic, according to Jason Martineau of the DEQ’s Sheridan office. That swing isn’t enough to affect the river’s plant and animal life, he said. And even if it did, “We’re not going to be able to fix the problem,” he added.

    Warm place

    Geologic studies have shown the Cody area sits atop a hot spot thanks to a large fold in the earth called the Horse Center anticline. One well drilled near DeMaris hot springs produced 208 gallons per minute of 93-degree water. Maximum temperatures of the underground water has been measured at 103 degrees.

    The well and hot springs are close to the southeastern edge of the anticline. On the eastern edge is a 2-mile long deposit of travertine, rock created by mineral springs like those found at Mammoth in Yellowstone National Park, further evidence of the area’s more active geologic past.

    The hydrothermal system is estimated to extend about 7 miles south of Cody.

    Growing up in the northwestern Wyoming town, Vanderhoff said the town’s adjacent hot springs was tied into the “colorful history” of the area. Next to the springs once stood a nightclub, house of prostitution and a pool that he used to sneak into as a high school student. The venting hydrothermal feature is just “one little exclamation point” in that lively history, he said.

    Since the venting in the Shoshone River stopped shortly after Vanderhoff posted the Facebook photos on a day so close to April Fool’s, he joked that he “may have to eat a lot of crow.”

    “I hope it comes back,” he said. “Otherwise I’ll be made a fool.”

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    Real activity will very likely be tied to astrological alignments. They always are, just like that of radio interference patterns, as discovered and documented by RCA.

    So, when I hear about the 'supervolcano' going active, I check the astrological alignments, and invariably say 'meh'..as there is nothing happening... and do the equivalent of changing the TV channel to something relevant.
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    ^^^ What Carmody is referring to about RCA and planetary alignments is summarized in this post <---
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