Yellowstone Public Seismographs Taken OFF-line

Post by U.S.Reporter

- Apr 05, 2016

Go here for more info:

https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/1120

The seismographs monitoring earthquakes around the Yellowstone super-volcano have been deliberately taken OFFLINE from public view.  This is a confirmed deliberate act and will stay this way  so the public is not able to see seismic activity there.  (This story has been UPDATED as of 10:14 AM EDT on April 6, 2016)
Being able to see what is taking place in and around Yellowstone is of great interest to many people because if there is a sudden flurry of earthquake activity, it COULD -- but not necessarily -- signal a pending eruption.
Since Yellowstone is the only "super volcano" on the North American continent, and is VERY geologically active, if an eruption were to actually take place, the western two-thirds of the United States would POTENTIALLY be hit with volcanic ash and a severe disruption of life.
So why were the public taken OFFLINE for the public?  No one is providing any answers. Even more peculiar, the privately-funded seismographs from the University of Utah . . . are also OFFLINE to the public.  WE NOW HAVE AN ANSWER:
The images of seismograms that appeared on SuperStation95 have always come from from the University of Utah, a.k.a. the UUSS. Sometime on the evening of April 4th, 2016, they suddenly got rid of those images. No one is able to archive them anymore or present them to you in the efficient fashion you've come to know and love.
From what we can tell so far about their changes, seismographic images have now become just "seismographic image." Every seismogram now shows only and exactly the past 24 hours of its life, as if they don't want anyone having the ability to look at its history even two days later.
The filenames don't even have anything in them anymore but the station's ID. The only way for anyone to compensate for this is to manually download each station's image once a day and then stick it in the archives. That means they'd never be live again. You'd have to go use their site to get live images. They couldn't have invented a better way to break third-party sites if they tried.
After poking around to various folks involved in the University of Utah Seismic Center, one person at that facility "quietly" e-mailed us a single graphic image which gave us pause:
In the image below, the Green Colored line represents the border of Yellowstone National Park.  The (barely visible) gold line represents the mouth of the super-volcano, known as the Caldera.  The red dots in the image below show all the earthquakes that have recently taken place at the Yellowstone super-volcano.  This is why the public seismographs are suddenly OFFLINE to the general public:

We are not seismologists, but it looks (to us) as though something is happening at Yellowstone.  We're seeking out professionals to interpret what we're seeing and will update this story when that info becomes available.
In the meantime, as untrained laymen, the red dots in the image above tell us something "not good" seems to be taking place at Yellowstone.

4/18/2016 — Earthquake swarm breaks out near Yellowstone / Hebgen Lake

April 18, 2016 Michael Janitch 

http://dutchsinse.com/4182016-earthquake-swarm-breaks-out-near-yellowstone-hebgen-lake/

A noteworthy earthquake swarm has broken out near Yellowstone Supervolcano, specifically near Hebgen Lake.

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Hebgen lake is the location of the largest earthquake to strike the Intermountain West in recorded history, with a M7.5 showing up in 1959.

The swarm is being caused by pressure coming from the West coast.  No doubt the pressure is building off the coast, now pushing the craton edge to the East, causing a swarm at Yellowstone as a result of the pressure.
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Information on this earthquake swarm from the USGS: (largest event so far is a M3.2)

M3.2 – 29km SSE of Virginia City, Montana

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/mb80136664#origin

Magnitude/uncertainty	3.2 ml± 0.2
Location/uncertainty	45.038°N 111.866°W± 0.3 km
Depth/uncertainty	2.0 km± 1.8
Origin Time	2016-04-18 01:58:39.220 UTC
Number of Stations	59
Number of Phases	60
Minimum Distance	25.7 km (0.23°)
Travel Time Residual	0.3 s
Azimuthal Gap	49°
FE Region	WESTERN MONTANA (456)

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150 of America’s Last Wild Buffalo Now Trapped in Yellowstone, All Destined for Slaughter

Posted on 2016/03/12

http://myscienceacademy.org/2016/03/12/150-of-americas-last-wild-buffalo-now-trapped-in-yellowstone-all-destined-for-slaughter/

Park rangers have begun capturing wild bison in the Stephens Creek trap within Yellowstone National Park. Since Feb. 20, approximately 150 of America’s last wild buffalo have been trapped. According to park officials, all are destined for slaughter.

“Yellowstone’s slaughter of wild bison is as lacking in scientific reason as it is in public support,” said Buffalo Field Campaign’s Stephany Seay.

he National Park Service claims that they are reducing the wild bison population due to the threat of brucellosis, a livestock disease originally brought to North America by Eurasian cattle. There has never been a documented case of wild bison transmitting brucellosis to livestock. Elk, who also carry brucellosis and have transmitted the disease to livestock numerous times in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, are free to migrate from Yellowstone and are managed by hunting based on sustainable populations in available habitat in Montana.

Buffalo Field Campaign habitat coordinator Darrell Geist says the state of Montana and Yellowstone National Park refuse to manage wild buffalo like wild elk, an alternative that would put the government out of the buffalo capture for slaughter business.

“Montana is blessed with an abundance of public lands but cursed by a statute that stands in the way of managing migratory buffalo as a wildlife species,” said Geist. “Few people know that MCA 81-2-120 is almost entirely funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to back Department of Livestock management of wild buffalo. Without American taxpayer funding, Montana and Yellowstone National Park would have to changes their ways.”

Yellowstone and the other Interagency Bison Management Plan (IMBP) partners have stated that they want up to 900 wild bison killed this year. More than 400 have already been killed by hunters. The agencies aim to kill hundreds of wild bison every year until they drive the population—now estimated at 4,400—down to just 3,000 animals. This population target is a result of livestock industry pressure to address unfounded brucellosis fears and Yellowstone’s false premise that there are “surplus” wild bison.
Buffalo Field Campaign executive director Dan Brister questions the faulty science that Yellowstone and IBMP partners are operating under.

“There is no such thing as ‘surplus’ wild bison,” said Brister. “Yellowstone’s target population cap of 3,000 animals is nothing more than a politically derived number that has nothing to do with carrying capacity.”

Yellowstone’s capture for slaughter operations adversely impact the wild population’s natural immunity to introduced diseases, including brucellosis and increases the risk of more virulent and persistent strains arising in the wild population. Cumulative impacts of management actions pose a significant threat to the viability of wild buffalo remaining in Yellowstone.
Under the voluntarily agreed to IBMP, Yellowstone National Park and the other IBMP agencies continue to operate under faulty assumptions and outdated information, in contravention of the agency’s mandate to use the best available science to inform decision makers and the public.
Source: EcoWatch