Wednesday, May 09, 2007

More "Oh-Oh"

This today:
HELENA - A magnitude 4.6 quake, reported at 9:46 a.m., was centered about nine miles northeast of Sheridan in the Tobacco Root Mountains. It was felt in the Helena, Butte, Dillon and Hamilton areas and as far away as Idaho, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.
Helena is less than two hundred miles from Yellowstone--America's "supervolcano"--That had a swarm of underground quakes yesterday.

3 comments:

Hmm, weird. said...

Wow, this is getting me all excited. I may get to see the zombie apocalypse after all! How lucky!

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/05/09/helena_top/a01050907_01.txt

“It was just so quick,” Stephens said. “It happened really fast. It only lasted a couple of seconds. It sounded like an explosion. It was really loud.”

Trophies in the high school display case tipped over. In Stephens’ own words, it felt like a truck hit the building.

Hmm, weird. said...

By the way, I did a little digging around and found a website where you can view the actual seismogram graphs from the University of Utah's sensors in Yellowstone:

UUSS Webicorder (Seismogram) Displays, Yellowstone Region

It's interesting to go down the list of sensors and look at what they recorded for the quake yesterday (5/8/07).

Anonymous said...

hmm, weird:

That's neat, didn't kjnow such things were available.