[Steve Van Doorn]

Thank you

[dr_lew]

Didn’t I see this movie on TV ?

[Man50D]

Magma moving?

[guitarplayer1953]

It is very unlikely we will see a caldera eruption

Is this just hopeful thinking or is there a scientific basses for the answer.

[winoneforthegipper]

Good Stuff SVD, indeed the scope of this swarm has changed in the last two hours.

It is time to pay a bit more attention.

[rdl6989]

Ping!

[ohioWfan]

Do you mind telling me what a “swarm” is?

[redgolum]

Wow.

So much for that elk hunt I have been saving for.

[mylife]

The Mayans were right!

Yark!

[wireplay]

It could be worse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita_Caldera

[Steve Van Doorn]

Pinging people I thought might want to keep an eye on this.

[MsLady]

Super Volcano there isn’t it?

[Iowa Granny]

Thanks for letting us know. I have texted my 12 y.o. Granddaughter to alert her to the email link I sent her.

[stboz]

This late episode at Yellowstone is fairly clam compared to the Long Valley Caldera episode about 10 or 12 years ago.

Interesting, but not so bad...now.

[HerrBlucher]

What is the standard for a first stage alert? Who calls it, the USGS? Is it an alert for a full on volcanic supersized eruption, or just an alert for explosive hydrothermal activity that would be very localized?

[ETL]

Map of the Yellowstone Hot Spot Trail. Reveals the movement of the North American tectonic plate over the last approximate 15 million years.

[Errant]

Youtube - 1 of 3: The Purpose, Planning and Packing your Bug-Out-Bag

Youtube - 2 of 3: The Purpose, Planning and Packing your Bug-Out-Bag

Youtube - 3 of 3: The Purpose, Planning and Packing your Bug-Out-Bag

[machogirl]

I dig geology, but I’m not formally educated in it. Just interested. Would there be other changes such as release of gas (sulfur) or more “hot spots” on the ground that are new, before an eruption? or would the changes not appear in time to matter anyway?

[bergmeid]

looks like we just had another one

[combat_boots]

There is absolutely nothing on God’s green earth like seeing the Yellowstone basin in early evening, when the orange-pink-purple sunset casts it waning light on the mountain peaks. Or Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, or the mud pots, in the middle of the worst blizzard you’ve ever been in. Or the sound of the bull elk on the Teton plain, sounding throughout the nights as they’re in autumn’s rut, herding their females together. The sounds of the buffalo, jiggling your feet underfoot, as they run somewhere over a rise, but you can’t see them. The taste of true, pure, water from ice melt, hiking the Tetons, cold as snow and fresh as pure can be. Come nightfall, the tents all covered in inches of snow you have to shake off, with camp fires all around and that pungent, pine-and-aspen wood smoke trailing up into the night sky. Glory. It’s glory.

[dep]

thanks very much for this. one of the strengths of f.r., particularly in the old days, has been the first news of just about anything important.

glad to see you keeping the tradition alive!

and very nice analysis.