It is rather
obvious that we are in the midst of a surge of seismic activity along the
boundaries of the North American Craton and this is unusually activating the
Yellowstone super volcano. It remains all low level but that is true of all
such events in their early manifestation.
Recall the weeks of waiting for Mount St Helens.
Hopefully this
culminates in a significant discharge soon and we can all go back to sleep. Most likely it will. In the meantime we put it all on watch and
wait. The longer the wait the less pleasant
the likely outcomes.
In the meantime,
Helium release in Yellowstone surely presages an eruption of some sort is on
the way. It may be no more than another hot
spring or mud volcano. It will not be a
stack building volcano simply because we do not get that here. Yet it also created the Snake River Basalt
flows.
Yellowstone’s
Belching Helium: Why’s This So Important?
Monday, March 31, 2014
18:11
With Yellowstone now venting helium,
Dahboo7 explains to us via why this is so crucially important. Helium is one of
the most accurate ways to determine whether or not a volcano is becoming
active. Helium in fact is considered one
of the most ideal geochemical indicators of anticipating when a volcanic
eruption might take place.
“We believe that helium can anticipate the detection of magmatic
movement even before those movements can be detected by seismic activity,” said
Eleazar Padrón, a geochemist at Spain’s Technological Institute for the
Renewable Energies, who led the work.
An almost ideal gas
Researchers have been using gas emissions to forecast volcanic
eruptions for at least 30 years, but they usually focus on carbon dioxide, the
second most abundant gas (after water vapor) in volcanic eruptions. Helium, a
noble gas, is a better candidate for tracking and forecasting eruptions, Padrón
explained, because it doesn’t react with rocks or groundwater and
microorganisms don’t consume or produce helium.
“Because of these properties, helium has been considered by
geochemists as an almost ideal geochemical indicator,” he told
OurAmazingPlanet.
3/30/2014 — URGENT EARTHQUAKE WATCH — YELLOWSTONE , SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA, NEW MADRID, EAST COAST, PNW
I do not issue this
“watch” lightly, and hope things calm down very soon.
Video update here:
However, until things
begin to cool off, I’m left having to issue an urgent ‘earthquake watch’ for
certain areas along the edge of the North American Craton.
This screenshot below
shows the past 48 hours of earthquakes in the continental United States and
Canada … alongside there is a diagram of the North American Craton.
Clearly, heavy activity
building upon the Western portion of the plate, and we’re seeing a massive area
become displaced — from Southern California, to Yellowstone — from Yellowstone
to Oklahoma.
The entire displaced area
having moved on a mid 4.0M range (or GREATER) in the past 24 – 48 hours.
In other words, over the
past two days, the entire western portion of the plate has moved on a 4.0M
basis across 1000+ miles.
This means we can expect
a major strain to be currently building upon the “edge” of the craton.
Also areas meeting the Western and Eastern edges of the plate (British Columbia
to the West, and Quebec Canada to the East) MUST be building stress to the
point of release at some point soon.
All this would be near
term , 3-5 days at the most… if we can get past the next few days without any
event along the edge of the craton greater than a 5.0M , we’ll be in the clear
for a minute.
For the next few days, be
aware of the massive amount of pressure building (and showing) along the
Western portion of the North American plate.
The pressure will
continue manifesting as earthquakes along the edge of the craton — areas such
as Yellowstone, Oklahoma, and Southern California . Some of these release
events could be rather noticeable (sizable greater than the previous events
over the past few days, i.e. greater than 5.0M).
New Madrid, and East
Coast United States — particularly along the craton edge, be aware of possible
movement. Not the “big one” , but maybe something similar to the 2011
Virginia earthquake (5.9M).
We saw this kind of
buildup along the plate during 2011 before the East Coast earthquake.
Below is a screenshot of
the past 7 days of 2.5M and greater earthquakes in the United States, compared
to a diagram of the craton, clearly the edge is being pushed:
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Past 7 days of earthquakes in the United States — up to noon
March 30 2014 — entire edge of the craton has been displaced
Over the past several
days, I’ve been warning for this movement to take place.
The screenshots below are
from March 26th , into the 27th — showing precursor earthquakes — made
note of these events in two different website posts.
March 27, 2014 here:
March 26, 2014 here:
It appears the Volcanic
earthquakes the days before all of this did indeed have a hand to play in all
of the unrest:
Oklahoma having a swarm
of their own.. Multiple 4.0M+ events…. (two 4.3M and one 4.4M). Occurring
at a large fracking operation.
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Multiple earthquake monitoring links can be found here:
Multiple earthquake monitoring links can be found here:
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