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#VolcanoMoments #1!
I chat with Mike Poland at @USGSVolcanoes asking if there is would be any potential impact on Yellowstone from the #UtahEarthquake.
Yellowstone info: volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yell…
I chat with Mike Poland at @USGSVolcanoes asking if there is would be any potential impact on Yellowstone from the #UtahEarthquake.
Yellowstone info: volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yell…
#VolcanoMoments #2!
I chat with @justsomeisotope about what lies way beneath our feet. Hint: Below the Earth's crust is not a massive ocean of liquid magma. And guess what color the mantle is!
I chat with @justsomeisotope about what lies way beneath our feet. Hint: Below the Earth's crust is not a massive ocean of liquid magma. And guess what color the mantle is!
Watch the waves from the M5.7 #utahearthquake roll across the USArray Transportable Array seismic network (usarray.org )! #earthquake #utquake THREAD
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows the motion of the ground as detected on USArray seismometers - each dot is a seismic station and when the ground moves up it turns red and when it moves down it turns blue.
Waves generated by an earthquake travel around and through the earth, but they get smaller (attenuate) as they move away from the earthquake location, just like ripples in a pond.
In any kind of crisis, it's important to make sure you're getting information from reliable sources. Lots of folks are talking about where to get good #COVID19 info (e.g. WHO, CDC), but here's a rundown of good resources for earthquakes, like today's #UtahEarthquake:
The @USGS is a great place to go for information on recent earthquakes. You can check out an interactive map of recent events and search a huge database of past quakes here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ma…
For each earthquake, @USGS makes a page that includes a map of shaking intensities in the surrounding area, information about the regional tectonics, and aftershock forecasts. You can see today's #UtahEarthquake page here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…
For those interested in Utah's M5.7 #utahearthquake, here's a little history of the region —
From Twitter responses this morning, it seems many are surprised at the event. But Utah is no stranger to quakes. Here's why: (Thread)
From Twitter responses this morning, it seems many are surprised at the event. But Utah is no stranger to quakes. Here's why: (Thread)
Utah sits in what's known as the Basin and Range Province, which is a swath of the west coast from southern Idaho down to Sonora in Mexico. Here, the land is getting pulled apart and like stretching out play-dough, the crust has thinned and cracked. nps.gov/articles/basin…
3. Over many years of extension, stress builds in the system until it breaks. The ripples of energy these breaks send out are what we know as a quake. This cycle has produced the fractured landscape seen today — some blocks of land rise up in mountains, others drop into valleys.
