DescentBB

There has been a constant earthquake swarm in Yellowstone's caldera for the past week under the lake. Earthquakes aren't unusual there, but geologists say that this sustained swarm is. Hopefully it's nothing more than a benign anomaly.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... 1.-109.php

Not like we could do anything about it with our current level of science and technology, if it blows it blows. At this point, if it went off the best we could do is pray the global impact from the ash isn't as bad as some have predicted it could be. Of course nobody seems to be overly concerned that the big one could blow at this stage, but some reasonably large and dangerous explosions and quakes could happen which would be a problem for the locals.

This seems to be a \"pay attention we might learn something really useful from this\" type of event rather than a \"stockpile food and run for the hills\" type of event.

Maybe it will blow and send Cali into the ocean.

I live in southwest Montana and therefore I'm going to die. Thanks.

SilverFJ wrote:I live in southwest Montana and therefore I'm going to die. Thanks.

Then why does your location say San Diego, CA?

CORD wrote:Maybe it will blow and send Cali into the ocean.

California can't fall into the ocean you n00b

Meh TB. I have that site on RSS and frankly, quakes like that are a dime a dozen. The Aleutian Island and Japan and southern CA have way WAY more quakes per day.

Yellowstone is a geologically active area. So, small quakes are going to happen. You wouldn't even feel a quake until it's about a 4 in soil like that. check out the history of quakes in that are HERE

It's interesting, but they aren't deep and they aren't huge. We MIGHT get on big one, but Baja had a series of quakes like this for nearly a month in August. Most never got over 4.0 but some we nearly 6. To old buildings, a 6 can wreck havoc but that's about it. The average house will tolerate a 6.3 fine. Ya might loose a picture off the wall or something, but that's about it.

The whole coast from Alaska to past Chile is overdue. Big subduction quakes over 9.0 can happen.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012005.php

Chile has had several largish quakes this year. one on land and a handful off the coast all in the upper 6.0-somethings. China has had a lot of activity this last year too.

Then why does your location say San Diego, CA?

I just moved back home to montana maybe like 3 days ago. Greyhounds suck!!

Lots of small quakes over a loooong time is usually a good thing…

Here Ya go

Indonesia got hit with a 7.6 then a 7.3 and a BUNCH of 5.- somethings.

Duper wrote:Here Ya go

Indonesia got hit with a 7.6 then a 7.3 and a BUNCH of 5.- somethings.

Indonesia info through Google Earth and the USGS (as of today Jan 4)


As for Yellowstone, after over 400 small quakes in a month's time all in one area, they've now had two days with nothing happening.