EQ moving closer to Yellowstone

[WantToGoHome]

I've been watching earthquakes for quite a while now. There used to be lots in CA, but hardly ever in Nevada. Then, there were lots in Nevada, but very few in Utah. Now, there are lots in Utah. It seems like the earthquakes are moving inwards. If you look at this site, it looks like the earthquakes are moving towards Yellowstone.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

Can someone who understands magma flow, earthquakes, etc. explain what is going on?

I'm hoping it somehow means our redemption draws near! :yeah

[kristine]

I can't answer your question but I did go to the site. The earthquake locations are interesting to say the least.

Last night at around 3:20 a.m., I was awakened by a vibration and heard a rumble. We live close to Lincoln, Nebraska, btw. Hubby woke up right when it stopped. Our dog sleeps in the basement and I heard her barking. On rare occasions, a train passing through town will cause a slight vibration but not like the one last night!!! Also, there would be no vibration in our basement. Maybe the dog barking was just a coincidence but who knows?

When I checked out the website, there was no mention of activity in Nebraska. I wonder what all the shaking and rumbling was about. We didn't have thunder and normally, thunder doesn't vibrate the house for that long. Hmmmmmm.....

[sojourner]

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[seekingtruth1]

If you have ever heard or felt the earth after dynamit is blalsted taht is very close to what earthquakes feel and sound like!

We had one in Virginia a few years ago that was just amazing! it was only a 4 something on the Richtor but coudl be hear dand felt in my office.

[Rinji]

I'm waiting for this to affect the new Madrid fault near my state.

Here's a picture of the
new Madrid Fault (http://archives.zinester.com/13183/107467/161646_Charleston1895.JPG) versus a very strong quake in California.

Can't be good. The quakes might hit yellow stone and then jump over to Missouri. We're long overdue.

[yogi3939]

We know a lot about the very upper crust of the earth but very little detail about the mantle and core. If the earthquake activity is closing in on Yellowstone (I didn't have time to check it out) it could mean that something is coming that will trigger the super volcano under Yellowstone. If that happens most of the upper west and a great deal of the midwest will pretty much be gone under enough volcanic ash to cripple our breadbasket farms. A full blown eruption of Yellowstone could easily be the event that messes up a lot of the world and take the U S out of play in world politics. We would not have enough recources left to keep our military presence up outside of the U S. There are several of the end times prophecies that could be brought about by an eruption in Yellowstone.

[Amanda's mom]

Well, I'm not a seismologist or a geologist but I have cotaught earth science and probably know just enough to get me into trouble. Bearing in mind that I am primarily a biologist, please feel free to correct anything wrong here...

Yellowstone sits atop a huge magma chamber (magma is molten rock that is underground, it becomes lava when it flows on top of the ground). This is an underground volcano. Yellowstone itself is a caldera, the surface feature above the volcano. As magma fills the chamber, the caldera raises. As magma exits the chamber via underground faults, the caldera lowers. The earthquakes at the caldera are a symptom of rising pressure within the chamber. If the chamber pressure gets too high, it will blow up. Another symptom that something is going on is if the chamber releases more of the poisonous gases up through the geisers and steaming springs in the caldera. I have not heard anything more on this one, though.

A Yellowstone explosion has happened before but not in recent history. If/when this happens, it will be disastorous to the entire world. The lucky ones will be close to the explosion because they will die immediately. The ones further away but, let's say, on the western side of the Mississippi River will suffer terribly (humans and animals). Glass-like particles finer than the finest snow will be airborne and raining down on the territory. Unless you have a respirator or sufficient mask, you will breathe them in and they will kill you with a slow, agonizing, suffocation. The rest of the planet will feel the effects of the blow-up by product...everything that goes into the atmosphere will be dissipated around the globe by the upper-level winds. This will result in a lessening of the sun's light and heat. Temperatures will drop, crops will fail, people and animals will die.

Hope this explains it a bit for you.

[yogi3939]

I'm waiting for this to affect the new Madrid fault near my state.

Here's a picture of the
new Madrid Fault (http://archives.zinester.com/13183/107467/161646_Charleston1895.JPG) versus a very strong quake in California.

Can't be good. The quakes might hit yellow stone and then jump over to Missouri.

If Yellowstone goes off first the New Madrid quake would be pretty much anticlimactic. It would just be the icing on the cake so to speak.

[Biblenuggetlady]

Well, I'm not a seismologist or a geopogist but I have cotaught earth science and probably know just enough to get me into trouble. Bearing in mind that I am primarily a biologist, please feel free to correct anything wrong here...

Yellowstone sits atop a huge magma chamber (magma is molten rock that is underground, it becomes lava when it flows on top of the ground). This is an underground volcano. Yellowstone itself is a caldera, the surface feature above the volcano. As magma fills the chamber, the caldera raises. As magma exits the chamber via underground faults, the caldera lowers. The earthquakes at the caldera are a symptom of rising pressure within the chamber. If the chamber pressure gets too high, it will blow up. Another symptom that something is going on is if the chamber releases more of the poisonous gases up through the geisers and steaming springs in the caldera. I have not heard anything more on this one, though.

A Yellowstone explosion has happened before but not in recent history. If/when this happens, it will be disastorous to the entire world. The lucky ones will be close to the explosion because they will die immediately. The ones further away but, let's say, on the western side of the Mississippi River will suffer terribly (humans and animals). Glass-like particles finer than the finest snow will be airborne and raining down on the territory. Unless you have a respirator or sufficient mask, you will breathe them in and they will kill you with a slow, agonizing, suffocation. The rest of the planet will feel the effects of the blow-up by product...everything that goes into the atmosphere will be dissipated around the globe by the upper-level winds. This will result in a lessening of the sun's light and heat. Temperatures will drop, crops will fail, people and animals will die.

Hope this explains it a bit for you.

:thumb From my little study of quakes and volcano's, the only thing I can add to your comments is that the "kill zone", area of trees that have died due to the gas releases, have increased in area at both Yellowstone and Mammoth in more recent years. Usually prior to eruptions there are harmonic tremors that are detected for days if not mos. before eruptions, this happened at Mt. St. Helen's for example in the 80's (remember the helicopter and reporter that died?) and the more recent eruption. The harmonics detect the magma rising to the surface and there is usually an increase in tremors also, leading up to an eruption.

[lighthouse]

http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

From 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes typically occur each year within Yellowstone National Park and its immediate surroundings. Although most are too small to be felt, these quakes reflect the active nature of the Yellowstone region, one of the most seismically active areas in the United States. Each year, several quakes of magnitude 3 to 4 are felt by people in the park.

Although some quakes are caused by rising magma and hot-ground-water movement, many emanate from regional faults related to crustal stretching and mountain building