Good morning, everyone.
I'm glad you're here.
I'm Mary with Mary Greeley.
News here we have a live view of
the Old Faithful webcam. A lot of people staying
there, visiting the Old Faithful Hotel.
There's been continuing events going on at Grant Village,
which is over there by the Little West.
Now that is by Yellowstone Lake.
Here you can see Yellowstone Lake.
And I downloaded two different boreholes.
One of the boreholes is from Grant, and it looks
like the magma, which is naturally buoyant, wants to rise.
The earthquakes and the movement of the
magma has been reactivated again of late.
Many of you will remember back in 2018, in 2019,
there was an earthquake swarm in this location as the
magma was creating pressure rising up, possibly found an area
where it was weaker, the Earth crust was weaker and
was trying to erupt in this area.
Well, it looks like it's been reactivated again.
Now, this is a very deep well that I
downloaded the data from borehole nine, four, four.
They're usually about five to 600ft under
the ground, these boreholes, so they don't
pick up any outside noise whatsoever.
And this is what it was showing
when I pulled the file this morning.
And yes, the redder, the color, the
more heat that it's putting out. Yeah.
It's trying to come up there again.
What we've got going on is as the Earth's
magnetic field weakens, we're going to have more earthquakes.
The continental plates are going to move more.
There's going to be more
volcanic eruptions, things like that.
What we got going on at Yellowstone is
tectonic movement along with slow moving tremors.
Yeah, lots of slow moving tremors
as the plates slowly move.
I noticed the other day and yesterday as
I was monitoring what was going on, because
I do watch what goes on every day.
I may not do a report every day.
You see, this is slow moving tremors, tectonic, plate
movement, kind of like what's going on with the
quiet drummers up there in Washington, Vancouver, et cetera.
Yeah.
And I really haven't ever noticed this before
occurring at Yellowstone until this last month.
These round areas, that's tectonic movement.
And then what's also happening is we
got the magma trying to come up.
This is harmonic tremors.
And we also got let's see let's take a look here.
We also have volcanic tremors going on.
See that?
Those are volcanic.
Let me show you something.
This is four different types of earthquakes.
We got tectonic.
We got shallow volcanic see how they are long
and deep, but slightly rounded at the top surface
events where it's really quiet and then it gets
louder than it ends up getting quiet again.
And then harmonic tremors.
Okay, there's the harmonic tremors.
They're smaller than the volcanic tremors.
Scientists geologists didn't even know about
harmonic tremors until Mount St.
Helens went off.
And then afterwards they're reviewing what it
was doing just before the eruption.
Both of these mean that the
volcano is recharging for another eruption.
Who knows when.
Originally they called these harmonic trimmers tornilos,
kind of like a Cork screw type
of image for the seismic signature.
But now they just call them harmonic tremors.
When magma or fluid move through the crust, they
can produce a size make signal harmonic tremor.
Unlike normal seismicity related to fault movement that creates
punctuated seismicity such as a sharp earthquake, a singular
event that diminishes with time and then can have
aftershocks the movement of magma or fluids can produce
a constant long period tremor.
And see they got the image down here below.
Let me bring this down a little bit.
This tremor is also not like most
tectonic seismicity in the sense that it
is usually only measurable by seismic instruments.
So you can't feel the tremor other than
a very rare occurrence if you're within 5
km, about 3 miles of the volcano.
Harmonic tremors were first recognized as a
precursor to volcanic activity after the 1985
eruption of a volcano there in Columbia.
Harmonic tremors of the type of
seismicity that most people associate with
an impending or ongoing volcanic eruption.
That is, magma movement generates the seismicity.
The tremor may proceed an eruption by days or hours
or they might not lead to an eruption at all.
It would depend on the size of the magma Chamber.
And in this case, Yellowstone is a super volcano about
35, 40 miles wide and about 55 miles long.
There's been 40 smaller eruptions
since its last major eruption.
And here we have an image of the magma Chamber.
I've talked about this before, how it comes up
from the mantle, the plume of the Earth, the
hot spring point to the large magma reservoir.
And then we've been having a lot of earthquakes
in this section right here and then it rises
up as it heats up, not all rock melts
at the same temperature and kind of moves towards
the northeast direction, towards the Sour Creek Resurgent Dome,
which is above where Yellowstone Lake is at.
And then we got the Mallard Lake Resurgent Dome and
it's got this huge cap of rylac which is holding
all that magma that's trying to rise up.
So the magma is now rising up and moving horizontally.
But every so often it finds an area in the crust of
the Earth, such as here at Grant, at the little West Thumb
area of Yellowstone Lake and it tries to push its way up
and that's what we got going on right now.
It's been going on for a while. I've been watching it.
I may not have been reporting it, but I
have definitely been watching what's going on there.
Yeah, schools out, we've been having lots of
earthquakes around the world and yeah, I'm watching.
They're hoping the next eruption will be in
a small eruption like the last 40 eruptions.
Maybe something the size of Mount Saint
Helens could be a little bit bigger.
And we got this crack here
at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake.
That's another area where the magma
has been trying to come up.
And then up over here in Yellow,
that is the Sour Creek researching Dome.
We've had a few earthquakes in this
area, the largest being the 4.2.
And that was on the 11th of last month.
And this is the area that Bob Smith
of the University of Utah feels that it
will probably erupt, but you just don't know.
Now, the other day I was going
to do report, but I didn't.
There was a small swarm of
earthquakes down here by Hart Lake.
And I took notice of that because this is
an area that had earthquakes from its last eruption.
The last eruption, Yellowstone did
what's called an unzipping.
And it started up by the Madison
River area, which is up over here.
And it did a counterclockwise rotation
of earthquakes and lava eruptions.
And it came around counterclockwise until it got
down to let's see, where is it again?
Right there to Hart Lake.
And that's when both of the resurgent domes,
the Mallard Lake resurgent Dome, and the Sour
Creek resurgent Dome, both collapse at the same
time, creating the huge eruption and blowing out
the entire area and mountains included.
Also up over here near the Madison River
area, that was the location of the 7.2
earthquake that they had in I believe about
twelve people were killed during that earthquake.
Here we have an image of all the
earthquakes that USGS is telling us about.
But as you know, they probably only recorded about
10% of them from the last 30 days.
And you can see this line as
the plates move, the continent moves.
And let's go down over here.
Here's the swarm from Hart Lake.
And let's go to all the
earthquakes within the last week.
You can see the Madison River area.
Let's see.
They're really underestimating them.
They lie like a rug.
Here we have the bore hole for the Madison River area.
And we got this one marked in
red, which means there was an earthquake
that the computers picked up right there.
That was a small earthquake, a magnitude one point 84.
I'll bring it down.
Some of you who are not on your phones
could probably see this down there at the bottom.
It says MD, one point 84.
Now, again, this is a borehole, so it's
not going to pick up the traffic.
It's not going to pick up
stampeding buffaloes or anything like that.
And then we got to make that bigger for you.
We'll just pick a spot.
So let's extract that.
And here you can see.
Yeah, we got harmonic and volcanic tremors.
And let me bring this over a little bit further.
See how it's round along with tectonic plate movement.
I got some smaller little tremors here.
There's one right there.
Quick popping of the rock.
And there's another teeny tiny one
there and another one there.
Looks like that one came from the north.
Now, if the first signature is pointing down. Excuse me.
It came from the south. It's pointing down.
It means came from the south.
If it's pointing up, means it came from the north.
A little trick that I learned.
Okay, let's look some more here.
See that little circle in
there along with the earthquake?
Let's see.
We got some drum beats down here.
It looks like tectonic, plate
movement, volcanic and harmonic tremors. Yes.
Let's pull it over.
Now, again, this is a borehole, so
it's only picking up what's going on.
And this is the borehole for the Madison River area.
I also downloaded data from the Sawtooth area.
This is the closest monitor I have for there.
Mcmt, this is not a borehole.
It's a regular monitor.
We got one marked in red right there.
And I've talked about this. Let's see.
That's a small one that comes in as a magnitude 1.5.
I'll show you where that monitor is at.
All right there.
Now, this earthquake, they're not reporting.
And the reason I'm watching this is because of
the fault movement for the Snake River Plateau and
the Transchalis fault system that runs all the way
up, which has been showing a lot of activity
all the way up to Canada, British Columbia.
This monitor, too, would probably pick up earthquakes
that are happening along the Sawtooth fault zone.
Up over here, we got Virginia City, Barton Gulch.
Let me bring it in a little bit.
What else we got up over here?
How far is that from Stanley, Idaho?
Okay, Stanley is down over here.
Okay.
So I believe that's the closest monitor
that I have to this area.
So anyways, that's why I'm using it.
So we got that one, which is 1.5.
We got two more up over here.
There's one there.
Yeah.
That is tectonic and movement
around little edges on it.
Go back and show you up over here.
And that's what we got.
Let me see what this is.
Let's pull that.
Yeah.
See how it's rounded? Yeah.
The plates are moving.
Like I said, it's been increasing around the world.
The plate moving as the Earth's magnetic field weakens.
It just means we're going to start having
more earthquakes, larger earthquakes, more volcanic eruptions.
Any volcano can erupt within a matter
of hours with no warning at all.
They are hoping that Yellowstone, when it does
decide to erupt, will give them a warning
of uplift, which he knows going on and
increase in earthquakes and things like that.
They're just hoping.
Currently, overall, as of March 17, there
was 48 volcanoes in continuing eruption status.
And we got an image here
of the current Erupting volcanoes.
I'll give you a link to this.
I wish I could make it bigger for you.
So that's all I have for you right now. Yeah.
Always be prepared for disaster.
Could be floods, it
could be thunderstorms, earthquakes.
Yeah, those are increasing.
You just don't know but you should
always be prepared for a disaster war?
While we get the threat of war?
Please stay safe and I'll talk to you later.
God bless you. Bye.