2008-2009 Yellowstone earthquake swarm - January 8 timelapse

(EDIT: As of today, the UUSS is still reviewing and adding earthquakes from the past days, so I may have, to keep things updated, to delete this video and reupload another one in future.)

Updated timelapse of 551 earthquakes occurred beneath Yellowstone lake from December 27th 2008 until January 8th 2008.

The earthquake data I used is from the ANSS Earthquake Catalog Search system ( http://www.ncedc.org/anss/catalog-search.html ). As the Earthquake swarm apparently came to a stop, this will probably be the last video for this series (EDIT: not! more quakes still need to be added!).

This animation shows vertically the DEPTH of represented earthquakes. North is at the left of the screen. Earthquakes are displayed in compressed realtime. They remain in solid color for 12 simulated hours, then turn out transparent and finally disappear after 10 days.

Earthquakes occurred during this swarm appeared to slowly move their location over time from southwest to northeast. The strongest earthquake had a 3.87 magnitude, most of them had a reported depth (hypocenter) of between approximately 2.5 and 0 Kilometers.

Be warned that the earthquake view is orthogonal, there is no perspective. Smaller dots are earthquakes of smaller magnitude. Their color hue also changes with magnitude.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• earthquake
• quake
• timelapse
• yellowstone
• swarm
• lake
• supervolcano
• volcano
• caldera
• eruption
• usgs
• uuss
• utah
• anss

[HaveDoneList]

You are doing awesome work, Shirakawa2. Have you ever been to the Chiricahua mountains in Arizona? I sounds just like your name...almost.

"Crikey!"

[shirakawa2]

The next steps for this video should be adding a grid (for clarity) and trying to activate the HD quality flag (I think the filesize should be bigger for this), and of course adding more earthquakes: about 60 more were added since I rendered this video, maybe more will be in the next few days.

About my name, no, never been there!

[kingx989]

@shirakawa2 i was going to ask if you had a map that you could apply this to. Is this accurate? If so, it would she alot of light to the public! Good job!

[shirakawa2]

@kingx989 I can't apply a map to this view, because the vertical axis here shows the earthquake depth.

[ronmcfad]

wow crap