YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO OBSERVATORY MONTHLY UPDATE
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:42 PM MDT
(Tuesday, May 1, 2012 20:42 UTC)

YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO (CAVW #1205-01-)
44°25'48" N 110°40'12" W, Summit Elevation 9203 ft (2805 m)
Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Current Aviation Color Code: GREEN

Volcanic Descriptions

• Volcano Alert Levels Description
• Aviation Color Codes Description
• Volcanic Eruption: Major Types
• Types of Volcanoes

During the month of April 2012, the University of Utah reports 29 earthquakes were located in the Yellowstone National Park region. The largest was a magnitude 2.4 event on April 2 at 6:27 PM MDT
, located about 5 miles north northwest of West Yellowstone, MT No earthquake swarms were detected in April.

Yellowstone earthquake activity continues at relatively low background levels.

Slow subsidence of the caldera, which began in early 2010, continues. Current deformation patterns at Yellowstone are well within historical norms.

Please see: http://www.uusatrg.utah.edu/ts_ysrp.html for a map of GPS stations in the Yellowstone vicinity. For a graph of daily GPS positions at White Lake, within the Yellowstone caldera, please see: http://pbo.unavco.org/station/overview/WLWY

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The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) is a partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region. Yellowstone is the site of the largest and most diverse collection of natural thermal features in the world and the first National Park. YVO is one of the five USGS Volcano Observatories that monitor volcanoes within the United States for science and public safety.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jacob Lowenstern, USGS
Scientist-in-Charge, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
jlwnstrn@usgs.gov

Robert Smith, University of Utah
Coordinating Scientist, YVO

Henry Heasler, Yellowstone National Park
Coordinating Scientist, YVO


YVO Alert Archive Search

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Update time = Thu May 17 16:00:02 MDT 2012 MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km 1.5 2012/05/13 00:20:54 44.550N 110.621W 1.0 40 km (25 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 1.5 2012/05/11 20:46:12 44.550N 110.623W 1.6 40 km (25 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 1.0 2012/05/11 07:22:40 44.526N 110.484W 4.5 52 km (32 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 1.6 2012/05/11 07:22:05 44.536N 110.499W 2.3 50 km (31 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 1.1 2012/05/11 07:16:42 44.498N 110.433W 3.7 56 km (35 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 1.2 2012/05/11 07:16:13 44.532N 110.499W 2.7 50 km (31 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 0.8 2012/05/11 07:14:53 44.533N 110.501W 2.2 50 km (31 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT 0.5 2012/05/11 07:14:23 44.535N 110.495W 2.2 50 km (31 mi)       ESE of West Yellowstone, MT

Information courtesy of ...
U.S. Geological Survey, Yellowstone National Park,
and University of Utah

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