Had you looked at my intial replies, I was attempting to educate him by pointing him to the views of those who study YS full time, that such events were common and not in themselves a sign of emminent activity - contrary to the title of his thread. I tried to explain the absence of magmatic harmonic signatures and that the seismographs record quakes from around the world and that to fixate on that alone, separate from the data stream from the experts who have all the data and tools to analyze it was wrong. It was only after he blew off my attempts did my frustration break through. I believe he and I have come to an understanding, so I consider that issue to be at closure.
Glad you and Steve resolved the issue and hopefully you both came away from the experience more tolerating.
As for leaving things to the expert in regards to such things...I can not disagree more. I have on my own accord noticed things the experts did not and have witnessed on other occasions including Eyjaf, novices who far and away outperformed Vulcanologist's worldwide.
Data sets from monitoring devices are kept by some countries as intellectual property and viewed as guarded knowledge. I personally see this behaviour not only detrimental to the protection of this world's denizens but indeed very snobbish...lol