12-31-2008, 05:22 PM
I looks like a sweet place to live...at first.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&d...1&t=h&z=18
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&d...1&t=h&z=18
leeman Wrote:I love the meathead...
Keep zooming out
12-31-2008, 07:07 PM
seems like its far enough away from the in-laws to me. lol
12-31-2008, 11:25 PM
bam Wrote:Did anyone else hear about Yellowstone?
yeah, do not eat it.
wait that's snow.
12-31-2008, 11:28 PM
quint Wrote:yeah, do not eat it.
wait that's snow.
I can't imagine that yellow stones would be much better for you...
12-31-2008, 11:33 PM
if you go out 2 levels and then scan around the island the look is much different
01-01-2009, 12:15 AM
Yellowstone Park Hit By Hundreds of Small Earthquakes
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of small earthquakes have struck Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. during the past four days, the “most intense” series of tremors in the area in “some years,” the University of Utah reported.
Earthquakes are common in Yellowstone, which averages 1,000 to 2,000 tremors a year, and its 10,000 geysers and hot springs are the result of geologic activity, the Salt Lake City-based university said in a statement on its Web site. The park covers sections of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
“This is not any indicator” of an imminent threat, Robert Smith, a professor of geology and geophysics, said in a telephone interview from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “It’s part of the ongoing activity of Yellowstone being an active and alive volcanic system.”
The university’s network of 28 seismographs in the area started picking up the tremors on Dec. 26, and more than 250 quakes have been recorded since then -- including nine greater than magnitude 3.0 and about 24 between magnitude 2.0 and 3.0. Some visitors have reported feeling the quakes.
Seismologists are trying to determine if the tremors are being caused by fault movements, the university said. The biggest quake was a magnitude 3.9 recorded at 10:15 p.m. local time on Dec. 27, when the largest number of tremors of magnitude 3.0 or more was recorded.
Centered on Lake
The quakes, which are as much as a few miles deep, are taking place beneath Yellowstone Lake, about 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 kilometers) south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, Wyoming. They are centered on the east side of the Yellowstone volcanic caldera.
A 7.9-magnitude quake that struck Alaska on Nov. 4, 2002, triggered hundreds of earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or less in Yellowstone about 17 hours later, the university said.
The university operates a seismograph network in Yellowstone with the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, its partners in the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. About 3.15 million people visited the park in 2007.
Yellowstone is home to the world’s largest active caldera, or volcanic depression. The cataclysmic eruption that led to the creation of the 1,750-square-mile caldera -- a so-called “supervolcano” -- took place 640,000 years ago, leaving ash as far away as Louisiana, according to a fact sheet published by the observatory’s Web site.
Last Eruption
There have been smaller eruptions since then, most recently 70,000 years ago.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck just outside the park in 1959, killing 28 people. Hazards over the next few hundred years “will most probably be limited to ongoing geyser and hot spring activity, occasional steam explosions, and moderate to large earthquakes,” according to the fact sheet.
“There’s this common idea that the supervolcano is about to erupt,” Smith said. “People take the fact we’ve had three eruptions and they average those numbers and they say we’re on track for another one. Just because there’s been three giant eruptions doesn’t meant they are going to erupt every time like this.”
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of small earthquakes have struck Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. during the past four days, the “most intense” series of tremors in the area in “some years,” the University of Utah reported.
Earthquakes are common in Yellowstone, which averages 1,000 to 2,000 tremors a year, and its 10,000 geysers and hot springs are the result of geologic activity, the Salt Lake City-based university said in a statement on its Web site. The park covers sections of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
“This is not any indicator” of an imminent threat, Robert Smith, a professor of geology and geophysics, said in a telephone interview from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “It’s part of the ongoing activity of Yellowstone being an active and alive volcanic system.”
The university’s network of 28 seismographs in the area started picking up the tremors on Dec. 26, and more than 250 quakes have been recorded since then -- including nine greater than magnitude 3.0 and about 24 between magnitude 2.0 and 3.0. Some visitors have reported feeling the quakes.
Seismologists are trying to determine if the tremors are being caused by fault movements, the university said. The biggest quake was a magnitude 3.9 recorded at 10:15 p.m. local time on Dec. 27, when the largest number of tremors of magnitude 3.0 or more was recorded.
Centered on Lake
The quakes, which are as much as a few miles deep, are taking place beneath Yellowstone Lake, about 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 kilometers) south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, Wyoming. They are centered on the east side of the Yellowstone volcanic caldera.
A 7.9-magnitude quake that struck Alaska on Nov. 4, 2002, triggered hundreds of earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or less in Yellowstone about 17 hours later, the university said.
The university operates a seismograph network in Yellowstone with the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, its partners in the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. About 3.15 million people visited the park in 2007.
Yellowstone is home to the world’s largest active caldera, or volcanic depression. The cataclysmic eruption that led to the creation of the 1,750-square-mile caldera -- a so-called “supervolcano” -- took place 640,000 years ago, leaving ash as far away as Louisiana, according to a fact sheet published by the observatory’s Web site.
Last Eruption
There have been smaller eruptions since then, most recently 70,000 years ago.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck just outside the park in 1959, killing 28 people. Hazards over the next few hundred years “will most probably be limited to ongoing geyser and hot spring activity, occasional steam explosions, and moderate to large earthquakes,” according to the fact sheet.
“There’s this common idea that the supervolcano is about to erupt,” Smith said. “People take the fact we’ve had three eruptions and they average those numbers and they say we’re on track for another one. Just because there’s been three giant eruptions doesn’t meant they are going to erupt every time like this.”
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