Good evening folks.
I'm glad you're here.
Thank you very much for joining me this evening.
It's currently 07:19 p.m..
They're at Yellowstone National Park and
they're currently looking at Beehive.
Yeah, they still got a lot of snow along
the boardwalk and different areas there at the park.
Yeah, it's kind of sputtering away, isn't it?
Here's an update.
What's going on at Yellowstone today is April 15, 2023.
Yesterday at about twelve 05:00 P.m.
There was an earthquake that's not being reported.
I think it more than likely was
there along the Saw Tooth fault zone.
It's got a little bit of a P wave on it
and it was not too deep, but a little bit deep.
Now this here is a little West Thumb
and I'll go back to the seismic signature.
It actually came in.
Let me bring this down as a magnitude 3.19.
I don't know why they're not reporting it.
And again, this was yesterday.
Earlier today there was a series of earthquakes.
You can see it there at Maple Creek, Purple Mountain,
Mary Lake, Little West Grant Village, the promontory and if
I bring it down a little bit you can see
it at Pigstone Plateau and I can't really see if
it was showing up there at Moose Creek, Idaho.
Yeah, it was.
See that right there?
It was at 1553.
USGS is only reporting one earthquake for today.
They're saying it's a magnitude 1.9.
There it is right there.
But you can see we got several marked in
red, some smaller ones here and another one there.
But this one is the only one that
they are reporting claiming it's a 1.9.
It actually comes in.
Let me bring this down as a magnitude 2.64.
Yeah, they were way off on that.
Going to Google Earth here's
location of that earthquake.
Okay, if I can bring this out, I
need to buy a new mouse here.
We got Little West Thumb, Shoshun Lake.
Let's see.
This, I think is Heart Lake.
Oh no, Lewis Lake.
Excuse me, let me bring it out.
Yeah, I need to buy a new mouse.
Yeah, this is a fault movement here.
We got the Teton fault going through there and
prior to that, yeah, we had harmonic tremors.
Let me go to the spectrogram.
This was what was going on before the earthquake hit.
And you can see all the heat that was coming
up and the gases and we'll pull it over a
little bit farther, see how it was starting to probably
a dike intrusion, a crack in the ground opening up,
allowing the magma to come in and then it stopped.
Oops, I went off the line and then it started up again.
And then this after the two
point, let's see, what was it?
2.64.
We had another earthquake which is not being reported.
That one comes in as a 1.90.
How convenient.
Yeah, they're gone for the weekend
and let me make that bigger.
Don't answer their text messages.
And then you can see we got another one that came in.
Yeah, this is here, this is fault movement.
And then we got harmonic tremors, which means
that the magma is on the move.
Now again, this is the borehole for Yellowstone Lake.
So it doesn't pick up anything
other than what's occurring there.
This is not marked in red, but
we got one, two, three earthquakes.
Let's look at another monitor.
This would have been at 10:00 A.m. Today.
And this one here, that one
would have been at 09:53 A.m..
Okay, let me go back down to this one.
The two monitors that do have it marked in
red is Little West Thumb and Mary Lake.
So let's make little west thumb larger.
You can see here it's marked in red
and that comes in as a magnitude 2.13.
And we'll go to the seismic signature.
Let's see another one marked in red right there.
I'll try and make that one bigger.
Sometimes it goes small on me.
At 1830 not being reported, that
would have been at 12:30 p.m.
Local time.
Looks like we got fault movement and
then it went into volcanic tremors.
And then that one comes in as a magnitude 1.83.
Been getting a lot of tubes lately, haven't we?
All right, we got another one right here at 1858.
So that would have been at 12:58 p.m.
Local time.
There's the seismic signature and that
comes in as a magnitude 2.10.
That's all that's on there in red,
even though we got more recent ones.
Let me check another monitor.
Yeah, Little West Thumb is the only one
that really shows up at and it's little.
Let's check it out.
I'll make that one bigger for you.
Okay, what do we got here?
That comes in as a magnitude 1.88.
And we'll go to the signature.
You can see it rattled on for a while.
Then we got another one right here at 23, 29.
So that would have been 05:29 p.m.
There at the park.
And that comes in as a magnitude 1.82 here.
You can see it also registered at the borehole.
Borehole 20 eight.
It just kind of a little blip there.
This is the borehole for Yellowstone Lake and I
wanted to see what was going on earlier.
You see we got blobs of magma coming in.
Let's look at the signature here.
Yeah, the tectonic or fault movement
could be one or the other.
They got the Teton pass fault through there.
Yeah, just slow moving tremors.
There's that other one that I reported.
And then these here.
Yeah, I just wanted to take a
look to see what was happening.
You can see we got little spikes.
Every so often we got more blobs of magma coming in.
They're always talking about how they would have
earthquakes prior to an eruption of Yellowstone.
They would have uplift and different whatnot, warnings.
Here's a paper I found about
magma buoyancy drives Ryolite eruptions.
Now as you know, yellowstone has a cap of Ryolite.
This is about another eruption at a
different volcano back in 2008 and 2009.
This was the Chaitan ryolite eruption.
Magma buoyancy is a mechanism usually neglected
with respect to magma overpressure in eruption
models constrained with geophysical data.
In this study we provide evidence for a
buoyancy driven mechanism of magma ascent means it's
coming up during the effusive phase of the
2008 and 2009 Chaitan Ryolite eruption.
We also constrained the volcano plumbing system with
the source models from InSAR and telesomatic data.
InSAR data did not detect ambiguous evidence
of pre erupting ground deformation up to
a year before the eruption.
There at USGS, Michael, Poland and different places,
they always talk about how Yellowstone is deflating.
But here it says telosmatic data indicates
that a dike opening twice during the
first two days of the eruption.
While InSAR data showed that three
sources of deflation during the eruption.
These include one dike and a sill during the onset
of the eruption and a spherical source halfway through it.
All locations of depth between three and 12
total ground deformation and it gives 0.5 meters.
I guess it is or M occurred during
the first three weeks of the eruption.
But the lack of deformation during most
of the effusive phase of the eruption
implies that the dome extrusion did not
result in depressurization of a magma reservoir.
Instead we show that the time series of
extruded volume can be explained by magma ascending
due to its buoyancy instead of its overpressure.
These results imply that in some cases ground
deformation data alone cannot be used to forecast
the temporal evolution of an eruption.
And I have talked about the Hongatanga eruption,
that it was only 1 hour after the
magma, the buoyancy of the magma started coming
up before it had its full blown eruption.
I'll give you a link to that article. Also.
Now I'm not telling you that Yellowstone
is going to erupt right now.
Only God knows when it's going to erupt.
He's the one that holds the finger on the button.
I guess you can say.
But people need to be aware that
they don't have all the answers.
They're still learning new things all the time.
And in fact Yellowstone is
recharging for another eruption.
It's not dormant, it's not dead,
I don't care what anybody says.
But if it helps them sleep better
at night, well so be it.
Anyways, people should be prepared and they should be
having as much knowledge as possible given to them.
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