Hi everyone I'm Mary with Mary Greeley News. Thank you for joining me. Here's an image taken
from still camera photos put together showing Old Faithful yesterday. Yeah the steam coming up um
was a little dirty really windy there and you can see the snow that came in during the night
how quickly it melted that was on the ground yesterday now according to another document
that i found Yellowstone has been resurging growing magma coming into the system for about
three thousand years yeah there's some buffalo moving across the boardwalk and
back up over there this here is an image from about eight o'clock in the morning yesterday
um i wish I had some good news for you yesterday yeah look how quick that snow starts to melt
yesterday there was a surge of magma coming into the system at Yellowstone lake particularly
little west thumb here we have a spectrogram provided by uh unabco.org of Yellowstone lake
this is the surge of magma that i was coming in that I was talking about let me pull it down a
little bit so you can see yeah the deeper the color red being hotter and blue being colder
this here is grant the spectrogram they're providing from the strain meter for grant
and I've talked about grant yeah look how yellow that went um how grant is an area where they had
an earthquake swarm that the magma was trying to break through the ground at this area is located
by little west thumb this is one of the most recent eruptions there they had at the park
oh somewhere between 162 to 150 000 years ago down over here we have grant
talked about the fault line you can see the blue line that's a fault line that runs through here
and I've talked about the fault line there at Yellowstone lake where dike intrusion of magmas
trying to break of rhyolite over here was me tracking an earthquake swarm that occurred
that was December 7th of last year Yellowstone lake on the left Little West Thumb in the middle
and Madison river here on the right look at the activity at little west thumb yesterday
this is that time frame right here there's a lot of them marked in red for
Yellowstone lake now we got one here let me try and find them um what another one there
I don't know if it's there or what but there is a lot of them a little concerning in what was going
on yesterday borehole 208 for Yellowstone lake x is north y is east this here is for the last
seven days going down to the disk all right so keep this in mind the magma
is rising if you look at the ground towards the north the north is rising up but the magma
under the ground is flowing east so Yellowstone Lake is east of grant now here is a diagram
of the grant well borehole 944 it is uh 500 feet under the ground let me pull it down for you
the strain meter is 394 feet and the seismometer is about 375 feet under the ground
the top has a cap of cement so it does not pick up any outside noise no stampeding buffalo
no snowmobiles cars going over speed bumps it will not pick it up all the bore holes
there at the park are basically made the same with about the same depth so here is the
data from grant top is north for the last seven days see how it took a jump
x is north y is east and look at this look at all the dots for quite a while the trend of the uplift
was on the western side you can see that but now it's kind of spreading out last seven days last
30 days each time the ground goes up and down it's been taking a breath that's what I call it
and we got dots away here south and there's one way over there north this is for the last 30 days
the tilt meter for the north geyser basin area borehole 205. it suddenly went down in the north
but east is rising look at that how it's breathing and look at the direction that is
changing now remember Yellowstone lake is south east from this location and it's showing uplift
in the southeast this here is from the last seven days and then we'll go to the last 30 days
There we go this is the trend it was doing before kind of a south west now all of a
sudden it decided it's going to go south east see that yeah like I said it's a little
disturbing another borehole from the Norris geyser basin area borehole 950 top is north
bottom is east last seven days and the trend is going south east last 30 days
See how it was originally going north and I've talked about this and now all of a
sudden it's changing so using google earth we'll go to the Norris geyser basin area
there we go up over there
kind of north west of Yellowstone and this is the uplift that's showing a southeast
direction which is let me pull it over
Yellowstone lake we have uplift at Yellowstone lake
we have two calderas over here at Yellowstone lake we're actually close to it we have the
sour creek resurgent dome and we also have the mallard lake resurgent dome
where the old faithful web camera that's supposed to be live and it's not working is located
they know the last time that Yellowstone erupted it did a counter clockwise unzipping
of the caldera coming from north west working its way down towards the south towards heart lake
and then both calderas erupted which caused the collapse and the major eruption the last time
of Yellowstone here's the monitors for Yellowstone lake at the top
little west thumb and maple creek look how thick the magma was coming in at maple creek
now this is what I monitor what's going on at the sawtooth mountain I'll go ahead about four hours
show you all the activity
I'll pull it over so you can see the time you can see how Yellowstone lake and west thumb
have been highly active how thick the magma is that's coming in there at sawtooth and I'm
going to show you another paper that i found look at all the earthquakes about the sawtooth
and the snake river plateau is in fact all related and we'll go ahead another two hours or four hours
Look at all those earthquakes and this is what it's currently showing
seismicity and earthquake hazard analysis of the Teton Yellowstone region Wyoming they received the
article in 2008 and became published in 2009 the earthquake hazard in the Teton Yellowstone region
is the highest in the U.S. intermountain region it is not only influenced by lithospheric extinction
associated with basin range tectonism tectonics that extend 700 kilometers
west to the sierra Nevada mountains California but has the superposition of the effect of Yellowstone
volcanic sources that can perturb stress up to 50 kilometers from the Yellowstone hot spot track
the effects of Yellowstone hot spot has a profound effect on seismicity not only on Yellowstone
but on the surrounding fault zones of the intermountain region the combine fault
zones are part of the parabolic shaped zone of produced earthquake activity surrounding
the Yellowstone snake river plain volcanic field the sawtooth mountain range 50 kilometers
from the hot spot track let me pull that back over and show you hot spot track 50 kilometers
there's the sawtooth mountain range and we'll follow it down to the snake river plateau
What we have here we got the Craters of the Moon
and other volcanic fields so for 50 kilometers out through this track where all these past
eruptions we are still having the effect of Yellowstone upon these fault zones all this
information the documentation will be down below in the more information box below this video
this paper also has talks about how the valley floor of Jackson Hole is rising up because
of the unprecedented uplift that's going on at Yellowstone and the effect it has upon the Teton
fault zone which is drawn out here earthquakes of the Teton Yellowstone region represent a high
level of seismicity of the intermountain west that is associated with interplay extension
of the Yellowstone hotspot and the surrounding region including the Teton
and Hebgen lake faults and i mentioned the area and i got Jackson Hole highlighted the con
temporary deformation of the teapot Teton area and its relation to the overall strain field
of the Yellowstone region was assessed by GPS observations 2007. the GPS field surveys from 1986
to 2000 indicated the unexpected results namely that the valley of Jackson Hole is moving upward
with respect to the Teton mountain block and principal horizontal extension strain
axis is generally particular to the fault
this observation implies crustal shortening and compression of the Jackson Hole valley crust
against the fault but more importantly the observed westward valley motion from the station
closest to the Teton fault supports the idea that the fault may be locked in compression
which means pressure is building for a large earthquake anyway there there was extensive
magma coming in from the snake river plateau that's what i got here on the right showing
the thickening of the lines the magma coming in and I'm going to make this other two monitors
larger so you can see the earthquakes little west thumb on the right Yellowstone lake on the left
each line in red indicates an earthquake that the earthquake monitors the computers picked up
sends a signal for the geologist to come in and review it trying to find where these are at
let me close this out you can I hope see them all in red okay
this is the one that was the most significant there at west thumb
we've got another one right there and we'll go to the signature see that let me go back over here
Anyways that's all I have for you right now sorry it's not good news
uh please put your thoughts your comments your questions I hope you are all prepared for any type
of major disaster we got tornadoes we got floods animals being found where they shouldn't be found
um earthquakes and diverse locations put your questions and comments down below please stay
safe and I'll talk to you later. God bless y'all bye