{"id":117627,"date":"2024-10-24T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117627"},"modified":"2024-10-24T00:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:28:46","slug":"earthquakes-might-trigger-yellowstones-steamboat-geyser-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117627","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes might trigger Yellowstone&#8217;s Steamboat geyser : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-29479\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 1936;&#10;        --source-height: 1549;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Wyoming, USA - A crowd of people witness the rare eruption of Steamboat Geyser, which can rise hundreds of feet into the air.\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1936x1549+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdc%2Fc3%2Fb33eae134078bf1811ccb9df6ec6%2Fgettyimages-1166225250.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Wyoming, USA &#8211; A crowd of people witness the rare eruption of Steamboat Geyser, the largest active geyser in the world.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Tara Kaestner\/Getty Images\/Moment Unreleased RF<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Tara Kaestner\/Getty Images\/Moment Unreleased RF<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steamboat is the world\u2019s tallest active geyser, but unlike Old Faithful, its eruptions are completely unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new analysis suggests that at least one recent Steamboat eruption got triggered by a small earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.9 earthquake occurred in September of 2022, and its epicenter was around 7 miles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/000\/steamboat-geyser.htm\">Steamboat<\/a>, which is in the Norris Geyser Basin of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/01\/1083766901\/yellowstone-150-park-history\">Yellowstone National Park<\/a> in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody ran down there immediately after the earthquake to see if Steamboat was doing anything, and right after the earthquake, it looked normal,\u201d recalls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marareed.com\/\">Mara Reed<\/a><u>,<\/u> a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>About eight hours later, though\u2014whoosh!<\/p>\n<p>Steamboat had one of its major eruptions, which can send water hundreds of feet up into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Reed and some colleagues wondered if the two events were connected, and did an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jvolcanica.org\/ojs\/index.php\/volcanica\/article\/view\/276\/448\">analysis<\/a> that was just published in the journal <em>Volcanica<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely think it&#8217;s plausible. I would argue it&#8217;s probably what happened,\u201d says Reed.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes just days after Steamboat had another eruption that closely followed an earthquake. This one was a 4.1 trembler with an epicenter about 100 miles away from the geyser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really intriguing. And it strikes me as perfectly viable that a geyser that\u2019s close to erupting might be pushed over the edge by some seismic shaking,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/staff-profiles\/michael-poland\">Michael Poland<\/a> of the U.S. Geological Survey, who heads the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s really, really hard to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause it\u2019s always possible that it was just coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Rockstar geyser<\/h3>\n<p>The world only has about a thousand geysers, and around half are in Yellowstone.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being interesting in and of themselves, they are good analogues for volcanoes. About a tenth of the world\u2019s population lives within the potential range of volcanic hazards, so researchers are keen to understand what can set one off. <\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe have known for a long time that earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions, but understanding when and why remain open questions,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/eps.berkeley.edu\/people\/michael-manga\">Michael Manga<\/a> of the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cGeysers provide another opportunity to study how stress affects fluids,\u201d he notes, because the underlying physics is similar. <\/p>\n<p>In the world of geysers, Steamboat is kind of a rock star.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s huge, and can also inexplicably go dormant for years. When it wakes up and becomes active, eruptions can occur every few days. Or, they can be separated by weeks to months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteamboat is special. Steamboat right now is the king,\u201d says Poland. \u201cIt has these eruptions that will go up maybe 400 feet, and part of the mystique, perhaps, is that it\u2019s not predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have installed some seismometers near Steamboat, and these instruments can pick up the tiny vibrations in the ground caused by hot, boiling water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine if you see a pot of boiling water on the stove, it\u2019s pretty vigorous,\u201d says Poland.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2022 earthquake, one instrument close to Steamboat registered a change in the intensity of this hydrothermal noise, says Reed.<\/p>\n<p>That means the earthquake may have altered the fluid flow underground and sent more hot water in the direction of Steamboat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we know that the hydrothermal system at that point near the seismometer was changed,\u201d she says. \u201cThat doesn&#8217;t necessarily prove that it changed in a way that affected Steamboat, but it&#8217;s plausible that it did, based on what we know about the geology, the area, and sort of the exact types of seismic signals we were seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research team also did a statistical analysis showing that there was a very low probability that Steamboat would have erupted on that day just by chance.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Bigger quakes<\/h3>\n<p>Poland says for about two months before that major eruption, Steamboat seemed to be primed to go off.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It had been experiencing a bunch of minor eruptions that sent water splashing only 10 feet or so above its vent.<\/p>\n<p>The same was true this month on October 7, when a 4.1 earthquake occurred near Dillon, Montana, about 100 miles from Steamboat.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Steamboat had a major eruption.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, in both cases, Steamboat was close to erupting and the quake just gave it a push, says Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf so, in both cases, why was there a delay of several hours between earthquake and eruption?\u201d he wonders.<\/p>\n<p>Steamboat has experienced several big regional quakes without erupting. For example, it did not erupt after the 7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake that affected many other Yellowstone geysers.<\/p>\n<p>Reed notes that big earthquakes are likely to open up more new cracks and fluid pathways underground, but when that quake occurred in 1959, Steamboat was not in an active phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt probably does just need to be primed to erupt,\u201d says Reed.<\/p>\n<p>The same seems to be true for volcanoes, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably the internal state of the volcano is very important,\u201d says Reed. \u201cThe volcano has to be sort of already primed to erupt for an earthquake to come along and just give it that little extra nudge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/23\/nx-s1-5157788\/when-steamboat-goes-whoosh-scientists-look-for-answers\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming, USA &#8211; A crowd of people witness the rare eruption of Steamboat Geyser, the largest active geyser in the world. 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