<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Park staff reported a "fake" USGS site reported a major evacuation in the area;  it has been shut down now.   Carolyn Loren <HR id=stopSpelling> From: upperbasin@comcast.net To: geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu Subject: RE: [Geysers] quakes Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 01:10:46 -0700 <STYLE> .ExternalClass .EC_shape {;} </STYLE> <STYLE> </STYLE> <STYLE> .ExternalClass p.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.EC_MsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';} .ExternalClass h1 {margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;page-break-before:always;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#003366;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal;} .ExternalClass h2 {margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#003366;font-weight:normal;} .ExternalClass h3 {margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#003366;font-weight:normal;} .ExternalClass p.EC_MsoBodyText, .ExternalClass li.EC_MsoBodyText, .ExternalClass div.EC_MsoBodyText {margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlink {font-family:Arial;color:#003399;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlinkFollowed {font-family:Arial;color:#660000;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass span.EC_EmailStyle18 {font-family:Arial;color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in;} .ExternalClass div.EC_Section1 {page:Section1;} .ExternalClass ol {margin-bottom:0in;} .ExternalClass ul {margin-bottom:0in;} </STYLE> <DIV class=EC_Section1> There was an earthquake swarm in March of 1978 that was perhaps larger than the current swarm.  For many days (over a week, as I recall) it went on, and the staff at the OFVC felt dozens of them.  Two very good things happened from that swarm.  Daisy became regular for the first time in years, and Splendid became much more common  - 1978 was a very good Splendid year.    I believe the March 78 swarm was centered on the Madison Plateau.  If someone has records of this I’d like to know.  I do have Rick’s annual report somewhere for that year, and will see what he wrote about it.   BTW, there’s a lot of pretty wild stuff out on the internet about the swarm.   Paul Strasser   <DIV> <DIV class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> From: geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Goh83642@wmconnect.com Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 3:06 PM To: geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu Subject: Re: [Geysers] quakes</DIV>    I too like a lot of other folks am interested in the recent sequence of earthquakes in Yellowstone.  I have been going into the Park for fifty plus years and this is a first for me.  Norris Geyser Basin has given us a few clusters of earthquake activity, but I believe this is the biggest and best in my life time.   A friend of mine plotted all the recent earthquakes by longitude and latitude on Google Earth.  He sent me his link and I took some computer snapshots.  I have attached two of them so everyone can enjoy them.  Hope you like them....   Gary Henderson    Meridian, Idaho</DIV> <hr />Windows LiveTM Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. <a href='http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009' target='_new'>See how it works.</a></body> </html>