Yellowstone National Park - Activity

Hey, guys, I came across to a video where author says about 102 small earthquakes in a 48 hour in Yellowstone.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/01/yellowstone-supervolcano-awakens-again-earthquake-swarm-alert-1252015-video-3098240.html

Yellowstone is awake again with a new Quake Swarm reported on Jan 21. There have been over 102 small earthquakes in a 48 hour period at the exact same location in Yellowstone. An Individual has also contacted my source with information about quiet evacuations going on between the employees of the park and residents in certain areas.


It looks strange for me. Maybe it was a temporary activity caused by external factors...I don't know too much, unfortunately I have not read Pierre & Laura book yet, but, nevertheless...
 
As of January 29, 2015, Hank Hessler, a park geologist stationed at Yellowstone National Park since 2002, publicly announced and put only a 2 week time-frame for the supervolcano located under the park to erupt.

Although no one knows for sure if Hessler’s prediction will come true, it does set an eerie overtone for people located within a 1000 mile swath of the park.

Interestingly enough this information dovetails with information previously reported by Intellihub, making Hessler’s claims all that much more real. Not to mention the fact that there was more than 1,900 documented earthquakes throughout the park in 2014 alone as swarm activity continues to increase.

full article here: https://www.intellihub.com/1000-mile-swath-u-s-may-destroyed-within-2-weeks-extinction-level-event-says-park-geologist/
 
Once again we have more dis/misinformation about Yellowstone Park and its volcano. I am always amazed at how we never seem to question any online information about this area, rather we just jump to a conclusion that, because it is on the internet, it must be true. I would like to examine some of the statements from this post.

Three last eruptions of Yellowstone happened to an equal cycle in 600-700 thousand years. The last eruption was 640 thousand years ago, with a capacity of bursts of 1000 cubic kilometers.

It is true that the last eruption was about 640,000 years ago and it sent about 1000 cubic kilometers of earth into the air. However, the eruption before that was 1.3 million years ago. The eruption before that was 2.1 million years ago. The eruption before that was 4 to 6 million years ago when the hotspot was under what is now Idaho and formed the Heise Caldera.

Therefore, before the last eruption, we have closed intervals of 660,000 years, 800,000 years, and about 2 million years. I do not see that this supports the statement that eruptions occur in equal cycles of 600-700 thousand years.

Active discussion about Y's eruption happened last spring. Do you remember that video where bisons leave Yellowstone national park?

That was discussed in this forum extensively and was shown to be nonsense. Bison come and go at park boundaries all the time, especially in the spring and fall. These bison in the video were nowhere near a park boundary. Also, if you go to Youtube, you can see videos posted of bison standing, walking, and running in the roads. This is nothing unusual. After this video was posted last Spring, YNP posted their bison count in the park as 4900 for the summer of 2014. They decided this was too high and plan to cull 800 - 900 bison.

In the beginning of this century scientists approved that supervulcano will awake in 2075. Then, according to specified data the date of eruption was shifted to 2017...Then this "topic was closed". In May of last year everything the little considerable issuings ceased to print information on a supervolcano.

[...]

Nobody disproved last forecast

How do you disprove a forecast when so little is known about the subject? Anyone here could make a forecast and it would probably be just as accurate.

In 2006 it was discovered that the soil in two places in park rises directly with a speed of 4-6 centimeters a year. For the last twenty years the soil rose by only 20 centimeters.

With 2007 on 2011 soil rose already by 178 centimeters. These are the latest data which managed to be found in the Internet. Probably fresher information is held.

I would demand a source for this information. The area is known to rise and fall. The entire crust is moving over the hotspot at the rate of about 1 inch per year and many of the earthquakes occur a from this movement and the settling of the ground. I suspect the author of this article is telling only part of the story to fit a fearmongering agenda.

March, 2014. The territory of park was left by bisons. This video flew about all Internet. Official version seasonal migration. Less known fact: the park was left by elks.

The bison issue has already been addressed. As for the elk, there are fewer concentrated in Yellowstone Park because of the wolves in the park. Not too long ago there were approximately 20,000 elk in YNP. This concentration of elk was actually too large and they were known to be harming the ecosystem of YNP. Now that they have scattered because of the wolf population, there are about 8000-10000 elk in Yellowstone. So the statement "the parks was left by elks" is once again a partial truth which seems to be made in such a way as to support a fearmongering agenda.

April, 2014 temperature in lakes reached 20 degrees Celsius. Seismologists recorded the increased seismic activity, activity reached 4.8 points.

I assume this is referring to Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Lake freezes over on its surface in the winter, and does not completely thaw until late May or early June. There have been no deviations from this in the last, well...., ever. No recorded history of any unusual Yellowstone Lake thaws. This lake does have thermal features on its bottom constantly feeding boiling water into it, so it would not be unusual to measure high temperatures any time in the lake, depending on the depth you are recording the temps. Once again this statement is a half truth.

IMHO, this entire article is full of half truths and innuendos for the purpose of creating fear.


s-kur said:
Okay, I've come across on russian article about Yellowstone. Here's translation of main thread.

___http://cont.ws/post/71985/

Three last eruptions of Yellowstone happened to an equal cycle in 600-700 thousand years. The last eruption was 640 thousand years ago, with a capacity of bursts of 1000 cubic kilometers.

Active discussion about Y's eruption happened last spring. Do you remember that video where bisons leave Yellowstone national park?

In the beginning of this century scientists approved that supervulcano will awake in 2075. Then, according to specified data the date of eruption was shifted to 2017...Then this "topic was closed". In May of last year everything the little considerable issuings ceased to print information on a supervolcano.

[...]

Nobody disproved last forecast

[...]

So, on a supervolcano. Rise of events on time.

In may 2001 was created Y's volcanic observatory. [...]

In 2003 access for tourists to the pool of geysers Norris almost closed. Reason: hyperactivity and high temperature of water at some geysers of the pool

In 2006 it was discovered that the soil in two places in park rises directly with a speed of 4-6 centimeters a year. For the last twenty years the soil rose by only 20 centimeters.

With 2007 on 2011 soil rose already by 178 centimeters. These are the latest data which managed to be found in the Internet. Probably fresher information is held.

March, 2014. The territory of park was left by bisons. This video flew about all Internet. Official version seasonal migration. Less known fact: the park was left by elks.

April, 2014 temperature in lakes reached 20 degrees Celsius. Seismologists recorded the increased seismic activity, activity reached 4.8 points.

Then news stop.
 
marek760 said:
As of January 29, 2015, Hank Hessler, a park geologist stationed at Yellowstone National Park since 2002, publicly announced and put only a 2 week time-frame for the supervolcano located under the park to erupt.

Although no one knows for sure if Hessler’s prediction will come true, it does set an eerie overtone for people located within a 1000 mile swath of the park.

Interestingly enough this information dovetails with information previously reported by Intellihub, making Hessler’s claims all that much more real. Not to mention the fact that there was more than 1,900 documented earthquakes throughout the park in 2014 alone as swarm activity continues to increase.

full article here: https://www.intellihub.com/1000-mile-swath-u-s-may-destroyed-within-2-weeks-extinction-level-event-says-park-geologist/

This is another questionable article about Yellowstone whose agenda appears to be to spread fear, at least in my opinion.

First of all, the writer of the article cannot even get the subject's name spelled correctly. His name is Henry 'Hank' Heasler, not Hessler. He is not just a park geologist, he is THE park geologist. Hank Heasler is the head geologist for YNP.

That being said, we must now look for the sources of this article. One is located here:

_http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/Will-the-Yellowstone-Volcano-Erupt-290287661.html

This is the actual interview with Heasler, and this is the relevant part of the conversation:

Researchers like Hank who study both seismic and volcanic activity here at Yellowstone say they are fairly certain that there will be no type of volcanic eruption here in the foreseeable future. But then we asked Hank to define "foreseeable future".

"Now what do we mean by foreseeable future? I would say, you know a couple of weeks, and that's what I would say with certainty."

Heasler is saying that he does not believe an eruption is eminent, and he used the words in the "foreseeable future." The interviewer tried to pin him down on what he calls the foreseeable future, and Heasler says "a couple of weeks." Here he is saying he believes it is certain that there will be no eruption in the next 2 weeks, and really does not believe one is eminent after that. Knowing that we do not have enough information to say anything for certain about Yellowstone's future eruptions, he was not going to be pinned down and cornered because he knows that in reality, Yellowstone could erupt at any time. However, at this time there is no evidence or reason to believe that it will.

Heasler did not predict that Yellowstone would erupt in 2 weeks as the above article states. In fact, he made no prediction of its eruption. He is trying to state just the opposite, yet the author at Intellihub would have you believe Heasler made a precise prediction of 2 weeks for an eruption. I would ask why Intellihub would make such a claim?
 
s-kur said:
Hey, guys, I came across to a video where author says about 102 small earthquakes in a 48 hour in Yellowstone.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/01/yellowstone-supervolcano-awakens-again-earthquake-swarm-alert-1252015-video-3098240.html

Yellowstone is awake again with a new Quake Swarm reported on Jan 21. There have been over 102 small earthquakes in a 48 hour period at the exact same location in Yellowstone. An Individual has also contacted my source with information about quiet evacuations going on between the employees of the park and residents in certain areas.


It looks strange for me. Maybe it was a temporary activity caused by external factors...I don't know too much, unfortunately I have not read Pierre & Laura book yet, but, nevertheless...

And yet more dis/misinformation about Yellowstone Park. The swarms of earthquakes are true, but then there is the statement about evacuations taking place in Yellowstone Park. This is definitely not true. I have made 5 trips into YNP since it opened for the winter season 15Dec2014, and there are no unusual restrictions on travel and nobody is being evacuated from the park. No major changes have been observed in geyser activity and no animals are running to escape the park.

I try to follow the articles and find the source of the misinformation, and it all seems to lead back to this youtube video by Tom Lupshu:

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcRsf7SUks

Tom Lupshu is a prepper/survivalist who has posted many of the same types of videos designed to spread fear about an imminent eruption of Yellowstone. Last Spring he posted a video stating he had an anonymous source claiming a large sinkhole was forming in YNP and there were possible evacuations of 2 nearby towns. This post was made when YNP was closed for the spring and nobody would be in the park to see the sinkholes. Once the park opened for the summer, there were no signs of sinkholes and no further mention of them.

Lupshu also jumped on the 'bison leaving the park' bandwagon, which proved false. He also claimed that roads were melting in YNP and that the entire park was closed down due to melting roads in the park. Lupshu has a history of flase and misleading information about Yellowstone. Occasionally some of the things he refers to are true, such as an occasional earthquake swarm, then he blows it all out of proportion and adds false claims to the report. For the most part, nothing he has stated about YNP has been true. I do not know what his motivation is for spreading these lies, but my opinion is that he is fearmongering simply because he likes the attention.
 
Hello.
bltay said:
The bison issue has already been addressed. As for the elk, there are fewer concentrated in Yellowstone Park because of the wolves in the park. Not too long ago there were approximately 20,000 elk in YNP. This concentration of elk was actually too large and they were known to be harming the ecosystem of YNP. Now that they have scattered because of the wolf population, there are about 8000-10000 elk in Yellowstone. So the statement "the parks was left by elks" is once again a partial truth which seems to be made in such a way as to support a fearmongering agenda.
An incredible video about the reintroduction of the wolves in Yellowstone NP ("wolves changed the rivers !") :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

A bit can be learned about ecosystems (trophic cascades in particular). Indeed any sane ecosystem have some superpredators, like (on land) : wolves, bears, lynx, etc.
 

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