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Here's an update.
What's going on there with the Mammoth Lakes volcano?
USGS is reporting 159 earthquakes
since it started on Monday.
The largest, of course, was the 3.0.
And that one was at 15:39, a depth above sea level.
About 330ft above sea level.
All earthquakes are measured from sea level.
And let's bring this out a little bit so you
can see where all the earthquakes are going on.
Now it's up to 164, but it includes
looks like three earthquakes down by Twin Creek
and one more up here by Antelope Springs.
But we're just going to concentrate on these here.
I marked out the most recent earthquakes
in Green for the last 24 hours.
And then I added a couple since
I did my report on Monday.
Of the larger ones, which were like two, one, 2.42 .6.
The one in the center of the
red was the initial 3.0 earthquake.
The most recent earthquake that they are reporting
is a magnitude 1.4, but it was larger.
And going 2 miles, it was 0.3 miles above sea level.
Anytime you see a minus sign, that
means it was above sea level.
Here you can see they started out fairly
deep, 4.3 miles below sea level, 4.13 .3.
And then they started getting shallower minus.
See that probably would be one of the shallowest.
And again, they're all up in this one location, which
would be right in here, right next to the highway.
Which would be what road? Let's see.
Let's turn it on Interstate 395.
And over here on the right is the Resurgence Dome.
So here's the most recent earthquake.
It's actually a magnitude one point 64.
Let me close this so you can
see the files that I pulled.
Now I'll pull this over.
Yeah, we got a series of them right here.
And I noticed that we've been having drum beats.
See that boom?
Which means magma.
Let me make that bigger.
It's coming up through a conduit.
See that?
And it hits a blockage until the magma
melts and then it flows some more. See that?
We got drumbeats.
Not real fast, but yeah, they are happening.
Look at that.
About one every 5 seconds.
What you got to watch for is when they get
so close together and so loud, it actually goes silent.
Another example, one they fudged on at 1129.
That comes in as a magnitude one point 89.
That's just one there.
This one at 811.
They're not even reporting.
There it is right there.
That comes in as a one point 92.
This one at two point.
And you can see I really shortened the
seismic signature beyond what it should have been.
And I'll bring it down because it
actually comes in larger than a 1.5.
It's a 1.91, so it's probably about a two.
But like I said, I shortened up the seismic signature.
Let me go back to that and show you.
I would probably actually do it there and then.
Would it be a 2.5% here at 1555? Yeah.
You can see the hot magma that was coming in.
There was a whole series
of earthquakes they didn't report.
Not a single one of them, more than likely.
Let's take a look.
Yeah, it was drumbeats.
Let me make this bigger and let's pull this.
These are volcanic tremors.
So why are they doing this?
I found a real interesting article, an
op ed about the volcano at Mammoth
Lakes and the earthquakes form in all.
Yeah, it was horrible what the geologist went through.
This was posted on the 28th of this year.
It says, in the run up to Memorial Day weekend
in 1982, mammoth residents woke up to a Los Angeles
Time headline that said mammoth Area tremors hit at Vulcanism.
And the report rocked the region.
But it was not the way residents were warned to expect.
They were planning on putting the residents in
that area on notice or watch alert because
of the earthquake storm that was going on.
Well, currently it's still at Green and this might
be why they're not raising the alert level.
The residents of Mammoth were outraged and the USGS
scientists even found threatening messages in their cars.
Evidently tourism plummeted by about 50%, so,
you know, it devastated the economy.
More than 2000 people were said to have
moved out over the next two years.
The politicians, the residents who owned hotels and
residents posted signs saying, Geologists not welcome.
Well, it never erupted them, thank God.
But the economic fallout was tremendous on the town.
A lot of people were disappointed that it didn't erupt.
John URD, a scientist who headed the Cascadia
Volcano Observatory, once told the reporter the education
campaign Hill dedicated himself to at the Long
Valley changed the way scientists were viewed.
The agency added transparency, including a
regular update web page where anyone
could check activity alert status.
They cited the reason because of a
2009 6.3 earthquake that happened in Italy.
Six scientists and a government
official were charged with manslaughter.
Prosecutors maintained the scientists had failed to adequately
warn the public of the wake of the
small tremers that preceded the earthquake.
Yeah, and they spent six years in prison.
David P.
Hill, then the scientists in charge of US GS monitoring
in the Mammoth Reason, was viewed as the enemy.
A real estate agent told me I should watch what I
am saying because somebody would put a bomb in my car.
Maybe a lot of people moved to the area
and not realizing that the Long Valley area is
actually a collapse volcano and where the current earthquakes
warm is where the Resurgent dome is happening.
And those are the ones that moved out in the past.
So they might be posting a majority of the
earthquakes that's currently happening, but not all of them.
Yeah.
Pressure from politicians, business owners, maybe they have a
little bit to do with why USGS is not
so open about the earthquakes of late.
We do know that when Obama was in office, he
put a gag order what was going on in Yellowstone.
There is currently about 8000 people that live there.
And, yeah, who knows what the income is?
And they're still probably recovering from
covet now they're being slammed with
high gas prices, hampering tourism.
There has been people in the past who have
died from the gases coming up from this caldera.
And over here on the right, we have Hilton Creek Fault.
There's a lot of hot pools that people go to there.
This whole situation reminds me of Dante's Peak,
where people didn't want to hear about it,
that the area they lived in could erupt
and cause the death of so many people.
Here's an image of one of those
hot pools here on the USGS website.
It says, the beautiful blue pools and impressive boiling
fountains along Hot Creek have provided enjoyment to generations
of visitors, but they have also been the cause
of injury or death to someone who may have
disregarded the warnings and fences.
The springs and geysers in the spring bed
and along its bank change location, temperature, and
flow rates frequently and unpredictably, they change.
Mammoth Creek, which flows through the town of
Mammoth Lakes, changes its name to Hot Creek
and Hot Creek Gorge, where it intersects a
series of faults that provide paths to the
surface for heated geothermal water flowing in the
aqua fire several hundred feet beneath the surface.
Here we have an image of the borehole tilt meter.
They have the 19th marked in red.
Looks like just before the 19th it
rose up and it was going down.
This has not really been updated, I don't think.
This here is about the caldera itself.
Most of the 400 meters, 1300ft of uplift caused by
westward pressure related to the intrusion of riot fills one
of the most explosive types of magma that you can
possibly have because it has the most gases.
And it mentions Bishop Tough.
Rhyolite magma tends to erupt explosively, commonly,
also producing abundant ash and pumice.
So many of you are probably
wondering where the Bishop Tough is.
And we'll zoom on out or zoom
on in, whatever Google Earth does.
And this is the Bishop Tough
scenic route, it says right there.
I mean, you can see the size of
the caldera where it blew everything out.
People often wonder, why do people live
in a volcano knowing that it's active?
And then they get all mad when you're
warned that something could happen, and it doesn't.
They feel like you're yelling, the sky is falling.
The sky is falling.
And then you see, like in Italy, where
those scientists and one politician went to jail
for six years for not sounding the warning.
I much rather have a warning and then make a decision.
If I want to do something than
not receive any warning at all.
People get mad that they
lose business and nothing happens.
Maybe they figured that insurance companies would cover the
loss, but they want to collect all those pennies
until it does happen, not thinking about the lives
of the innocent people who could be instantly vaporized.
How many left town during that period of
the earthquake swarm and left their employees and
whoever to man the stores and restaurants?
How many actually stayed there during the earthquakes?
Yeah, I'm not a child.
Give me the information.
Let me make the decisions on my own, but
don't leave me in the dark like a little
mushroom being fed a bunch of BS.
Yeah, we're on our own.
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