Stunning evidence of a Caldera volcano in Arkansas! Must read!

Lots of Arkies on here. We need to have a party.

Bullfrog, are you from AR also?

Can I come? I haven't been to a volcano party in a long time.
Will there be a sacrifice?

[link to folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu]
You nasty missiles not far away, at Twin Groves

Just bring one virgin liberal( if there is one) and I'll supply the beer and tequila.

Wow.. well researched and extremely interesting post OP! Well done--as someone else said this is the kind of thing that makes me keep coming back to GLP :)

Thanks!

I had always wondered about the diamond mine and Hot Springs being so close. You tied it all together very well. let us know if you find any more clues. I love HOME DOOM.

Later im going to look at some igneous looking rocks on my land. Im not sure what they are but the ozarks are not supposed to have igneous rocks. ill keep ya posted

I agree with the good doctor. Its mere speculation.

OP, thanks for the post! Living in Texas, I have been fascinated with watching the earthquake action for the last 10 years and when the 4.3-5.1 quake was reported in Oklahoma, I too, became suspicious of volcanic activity.

The Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma were once ancient volcanic sites. [link to vulcan.wr.usgs.gov] Quartz Mountain State Park - Wichita Mountains:1
"The southern part of Oklahoma tried to split (rift) away from the northern part of Oklahoma about 550 million years ago, but failed. Some of the evidence for this attempted split is found in the granites of southern Oklahoma... The attempted rift resulted in a zone of weakness in the Earth's crust that was exploited by rising magma. Some of the magmas erupted at the surface; other magmas cooled beneath the surface forming the Wichita Mountains granites."

So at one time, Oklahoma was trying to split in half, then the volcanoes erupted and sealed the area up again. I noticed that a line could be drawn east to west from the Lubbock, Texas area where there was a 4 pointer last week, up through the Oklahoma area of the last quake and then due west toward the Arkansas quakes of last week.

Years ago, while studying the USGS EQ website map, I observed a four-or-five point earthquake due south of New Orleans about 100 or so miles out in the Gulf. At that time I thought that the Mississippi was a giant fault line and that the quake in the Gulf was an ominous warning because it was inline with the Mississippi.

On one site I read that this 4 pointer had nothing to do with fracking because the quake was so deep (I think 8 miles?)...The frequent ones that had been happening around Jones, OK were much nearer the surface and those are propbably due to fracking.

Last year, there was a series of small quakes around the Dallas Fort Worth area. When they halted the drilling, the quakes ceased.

Thanks again for your post....your theory is very interesting and should not be discounted. Whoever posted the video linking the Gulf drilling to Edgar Cayce, is also very much appreciated .

Pseudoscience at its best.

I've posted all the relevant data for the area surrounding Guy, AR in a new thread: Thread: The Guy, AR Earthquake swarm: The data, to date

It starts on 10/7 and runs to present, with daily averages of strength added in because I'm a number-porn addict.

Thank you for your observation. Yes it is pseudoscience on my part because I dont own any drills or seismographs to use at my discretion.I am no certified geologist, however, I am a disciplined critical thinker. I have extensively studied Arkansas geology and geography since I was a young child as a result of being raised in a hippy science school in the hills of Eureka Springs. As I stated in my OP, This is merely speculation. However, You cannot argue the evidence that I presented to support my hypothesis. Those are facts. Of course I cannot prove that these earthquakes are connected, but when you connect the dots and each one line up through an area PROVEN to once be very active, it suggests that things are changing.

I noticed that. Do you know how to calculate the weekly average percent increase?

Thanks for your input. I think they are right about it not being fracking. Look at the depths of these wells they are drilling in and compare it to the depths of the quakes...

41 Fayetteville Shale, Arkoma Basin Arkoma Basin, northern Arkansas, depth 6,200 ft. vertical with 2,000-ft. lateral, multiple frac treatments xx% $xx,xxx $xx,xxx

42 Wapanucka, Cromwell, Woodford Formations, Arkoma Basin Arkoma Basin, northern Arkansas, depth 6,000 ft. vertical with 3,500-ft. lateral, multiple frac treatments

[link to petroleumevaluator.com]

I don't have the equation in my brain, or it wouldn't be much of a problem. I assume that it's a rolling 7-day average, which wouldn't be very applicable as the swarm starts on 10/7, right? And the averages aren't really very applicable either, because they average data from different numbers of quakes across an arbitrary 24-hour period.

Add to this the logarithmic nature of the Magnatude scale, then vary it by the depth of each individual quake, and we'll start to see chaos pretty soon.

What's more interesting to me is any data concerning the geological makeup of the strata which is seeing the epicenters of the quakes. I'm assuming an average depth of 3-5 km.

when she said the animal kingdom would strike back I imagined a cavalry of chimps with tridents riding on bears storming through a city lol.

Yeah, I didn't like that reply myself.

That's World of Warcraft...

Sounds like someone is mad he didn't think of it first.

Well, it all comes down to: can anyone make a prediction based on the available data?

Since the nature of the environment remains relatively constant (i.e., underground is still underground, and the possibly connected fracking still continues), and as the data shows an overall increase in the magnatude of the quakes, and as my predictions thus far have a 100% accuracy record (i.e., I haven't been right once), I'll take a brave stab at it.

Within the next 3 days we will see a quake between Md 4.0 and 4.3 at a depth of 27km (+/- 4km) within 10 km of Guy, AR. If trends further continue, it will be followed within 3 days by a quake between Md 4.2 and 4.5 at approximately the same depth. Upon reaching this plateau, the quakes will recur at this level but separated for the next two weeks by 24-48 hours. I further predict that any quakes of 5.5 or greater will cause both myself and many citizens of Guy, AR, to shart.

If there was a volcano in Arkansas it surely would have erupted during the 1812 earthquake. That earthquake was massive enough to set any volcano off.

yep. North of Russellville

a 5.5 is gonna make half the state shart. Do you live in guy?

Not necessarily, in hot springs, the center of the volcanic activity, there are massive chunks of Novaculite which is 98 to 99% pure silica. This stuff is so rare that it only exists there and one place in west texas. It is so tough that it could easily plug a volcano for quite some time IMO. Bad thing is, because it is the rarest and most valuable Abrasive rock in the world, it is aggressively being mined thus the area is losing mass of a very dense, heat resistant stone.

Have to wonder where "Eagle" is from. Most of us from Arkansas don't scare that easily.