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I'm no earthquake expert though, I do pay attention to stuff like this and there is definitely more activity in the last week than we are accustomed to. Atleast in terms of magnitude.
An online friend emailed me last night about the earthquake at Yellowstone. He ordered respirators for his family because of his concerns about this. I'm not a scientist and I don't know what to make of it. It seems like the wind would have to move the volcanic ash quite far to destroy the whole country, especially the East Coast. It seems like people are either panicked or unconcerned.
I was watching a documentary about Yellowstone a couple weeks ago. Seems like it can blow any minute now. Oh well. Whatever happens will happen. If it blows, it blows. You can't live your life worried and scared.
They get thousands of earthquakes a year. This is the largest in decades, but all the experts say it's no cause for alarm, just happens to be a larger one that happened.
The park is actually a super-volcano. There are massive eruptions every 600,000 to 1,000,000 years. The last one was a long time ago, although people that study the park say it's not overdue for an eruption and there's no activity to signify anything will happen in the near future. It certainly will erupt again though, probably in the next 500,000 years.
An online friend emailed me last night about the earthquake at Yellowstone. He ordered respirators for his family because of his concerns about this. I'm not a scientist and I don't know what to make of it. It seems like the wind would have to move the volcanic ash quite far to destroy the whole country, especially the East Coast. It seems like people are either panicked or unconcerned.
I think your friend needs to calm down a bit. No reason at all to assume there's going to be some sort of volcanic event because there was an earthquake at Yellowstone. There are up to 3,000 earthquakes a year there, this one just happened to be a bit larger than most.
Eruptions happen there every 600,000 to a few million years. There WILL be another huge eruption at Yellowstone. The last one spread a layer of debris about 6 feet deep across most of the eastern USA. Of course there's no signs it will happen anytime soon, but more than likely in the next 500,000 years.
I was watching a documentary about Yellowstone a couple weeks ago. Seems like it can blow any minute now. Oh well. Whatever happens will happen. If it blows, it blows. You can't live your life worried and scared.
of course we can worry about it, and if there is a way to predict it, do so.
Heck if that thing blows I'm in the car and driving to Mexico in a matter of minutes lol
my theory is that most scientists do not predict anything for liability reasons...large earthquake in chile.
my guess is they knew a bigger eq was coming, they just didn't want to stick their necks out to say where. of course they don't know where. but they have some ideas, I'm sure.
To say there is "no way to know" and its all random seems ridiculous to me.
It's all connected. we just don't know enough yet to say anything with certainty about what will happen. Just like the weather. We just know even less about cause/effect regarding the sub surface.
There's more likely the chance that these earthquakes are unrelated than they are related. Yellowstone and California have periods of heightened activity every so often. Cali has an active fault zone and Yellowstone is more or less an "active" volcano. Earthquakes and other geologic phenomena are to be expected here.
There are probably dormant fault lines in Oklahoma similar to the New Madrid fault line. In the past, earthquakes in Oklahoma have been connected to underground human activity such as fracking and oil mining. It's not confirmed now, but it wouldn't be that surprising to find out that human activity indeed has agitated those dormant fault lines. Of course, oil companies would rather that not be the case so that's kind of some iffy territory to delve into.
I have an earth quake detection device, that while appearing to be an empty bottle of Heineken set onto a piece of rebar, came with an "iron-clad guarantee" from the scientist who sold it to me down on the Santa Monica Pier. I've got it set up in the back-yard and so far nothing's happening but I'll keep everyone informed.
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8.2 in Chile, South America.
