HOLY SHIT!! 3 EQS YELLOWSTONE (Old Faithful Geyser) - You Gotta See The Seismographs Here....

Let us hope she does not erupt...it will not be good!

This dude's picture, cracks me up every time.

Knew it was bigger...Let's hope they don't get any bigger or let's hope they may stop....

Just looked at the area on Google maps, looks like it's right on the border...

Wake me up when Jellystone gets one

6 quakes in a little over an hour.. does that happen often at Old Faithful?

Heh there is some dude dancing on cam by the geyser, lol

[link to www.nps.gov]

Maybe the park sent someone out to check the activity. I would think it would be odd for a tourist to be there at this time of night.

It must be, he just got back into his car, the headlights are shining on the spot...

They might want to check on the Geyser to see if it's still blowing when it should...Any subtle change might be an indication that something's up...

Yeah I was wondering where that shaking light was coming from. The guy was a surprise!

Because, Yellowstone is a caldera. A caldera is the mother of all volcanoes, or actually a circle of volcanoes that unzip together to destroy the human race.

It will probably do nothing and we will move onto different doom tomorrow. But if we hit the Yellowstone lottery, then then millions of people will be instantly vaporized. Tens of millions of others will be buried under feet of ash, and billions will have to live and die with a new ice age that hits suddenly.

It's the ultimate GLP doom.

Looks like a new YS EQ swarm could be starting. I remember the last one almost 2 years ago. Nothing blew then but its gotta blow eventually and swarms are usually a good precursor

Looks like the amount of steam has increased in the past few seconds.

[link to www.nps.gov]

Guy 1: Are we fucked yet?

Guy 2: Nope, not quite.

Guy 1: Ready to go then?

Guy 2: Nope, just wanna stand here and stare a lil' while longer...

Yep, had a red flashing light or something on the top of the car as it was driving away...

Looks like they were just checking on the timing of the geyser and to make sure there isn't oddities with it...A geyser changing it's usual pattern could give them a clue that's something up....

Interesting that's on the western rim.

Just a black screen for me, even though the video counter is going. *shrugs*

That's because it's night and the car that was lighting up the geyser drove away.

Yep, and look at this recent article I just found, I will just post the juicy bit:

Researchers ponder what's next in volcanic Yellowstone

All in all, the review of Yellowstone's history makes it clear that it's an incredibly complex place with lots of things that can potentially influence its future behavior. Still, the authors manage to extract a few predictions from the chaos.

In the paper, they note that the eruptions, earthquakes, and other indications of faulting cluster along three main lines: one along the western rim, one down the center of the caldera, and a third towards the east, partly underlying Yellowstone Lake. If eruptions were to resume, the authors suggest that these areas are likely to be the focus. But it's difficult to predict whether the eruptions would involve pyroclastic explosions or large lava flows. The extensive groundwater and lakes in the area could also add to the explosiveness of any eruptions.

But there is bad news. An examination of the shape and composition of crystals formed in previous eruptions indicate that the molten material experienced a rapid ascent to the surface, and didn't end up sitting in pools closer to the surface before being ejected. This suggests that a recharging of the deep magma reservoir could lead to relatively rapid eruptions, and there might not be any clear sign of the magma moving towards the surface from there that would tip us off to the coming eruptions.

[link to arstechnica.com]

ummmmmm. *grins* Silly me. I think I need to go to bed. LOL. Thanks for pointing that out to me. =)

It will be light again in about 7 hours I think.

Get's interesting.......

The following was posted on Volcano Cafe who are talking about this little swarm...

GeoLurking says:
October 15, 2012 at 05:07

Not yet. But it is worth going back to an article that Erik had on a USGS report about likely areas for activity in Yellowstone. Right now, what I find interesting is that there was a relatively deep quake at about 10 km, and the later quakes are in the 6 to 8 km range. If I remember correctly, that’s mush area.

A few years ago, there was a swarm that dropped off deeper as time went on. My guess is that was some sort of subsidence. Right now it’s too early to tell what’s up. It could just be flexure, as the thing is prone to do.

I can’t say one way or the other whether it’s tectonic or not. I don’t have that skill set. It most likely is, but I poke around at stuff just like you do.

[link to volcanocafe.wordpress.com]

What will be interesting is to see how much the ground has risen, if any, after this swarm. The ground has been rising faster and faster each year. The gentleman in charge of monitoring yellow stone, can't remember his name, but has said on numerous occasions, that it could happen at any moment and we are way over due.


He tells us that they measure the likelhood of its blowing its top based on ground swells and this year and last were double growth of all measured years combined.


Hopefully, he releases a new report so we can see what affect, if any, this had on it.

Last Yellowstone swarms were in December 2009 through to January 2010 , the next year [ 13 months ] , January 2011 , its 2012 and no swarm until now. So expect a lot more quakes, if this is a swarm ,in the next few weeks.

Magnitude of 2! Holy fuck we're all going to die!!! OP = tard.

Ffs another one.

They are NOT at Old Faithful, they are NOT even within the caldera, they are on the outskirts.

according to the movie 2012 it will beginn extremeliy on the 300th day in 2012.

the 300th day this year is the 26 October 2012

And until year end there are 66 more days loool