Includes one geyser that last erupted almost two decades ago.
Yellowstone geysers become active again after dormant periods
By Janet White
Yellowstone Gate
Yellowstone - Photo © Robert Felix
(Excerpts) – Yellowstone geyser enthusiasts are reporting that a handful of Yellowstone National Park geysers appear to be active again after periods of dormancy, including one geyser that last erupted almost two decades ago.
Morning Geyser, quiet for 18 years, is now active, and there is news that an electronic monitor on Echinus in Norris Geyser Basin picked up an eruption. North Goggles Geyser has also started erupting more regularly than the lone annual display it has typically shown over the past few years. The last time it was this active was 2004. Joining the list of newly reactivated thermal features are Fan and Mortar geysers, which may be beginning an active cycle.
Morning Geyser last erupted in 1994. The first reported eruption this year occurred on Wed., June 20. A second eruption was reported the following day, with geyser gazers reporting online that Morning Geyser spewed for up to 30 minutes, reaching a height of 200 feet.
How long will Morning Geyser continue erupting? That’s hard to say, but based on past active cycles, it could be days or weeks. Then again, these two eruptions might be all that’s seen for a while.
But for those of us not in the Park at the moment, thankfully, we can watch a past eruption.
Fan and Mortar Geysers in the Upper Geyser Basin
(On ) June 9, Fan and Mortar geysers started what is expected to be another cycle of activity. Every couple of years, Fan and Mortar geysers take a break and go silent. Prior to this eruption, they were last known to erupt in October 2011. Sometimes they take longer breaks than this.
When active, they erupt about every 3-5 days, sometimes appearing to “prefer” nighttime eruptions. Let’s hope this cycle sees more daytime eruptions.
Echinus Geyser in Norris Geyser Basin
… a temperature probe indicated that Echinus erupted at 3:25 a.m. on Mon., June 18 … the first known eruption since January 2011.”
Janet White is the creator of GeyserWatch.com.
See entire article:
http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/06/dormantyellowstone-geysers-active-again/
Note: These eruptions don’t seem to be of much concern to Yellowstone observers.
I don’t know the answer to this, but I wonder if there is any correlation between these geyser eruptions and sunspots.
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In the past years that I sort of followed the seismic activity at Yellowstone – looking for signs of the big one – there was a considerable number of small to medium quakes. Now there seems to be only 2 or 3 quakes a month, according to the data being put out to the public. Is the lull related to sunspots too? Doubt it. I don’t mind tying cooling and warming to the Sun, but I think a lot of things are trying to be tied into the quiet Sun than have a right to be.
very good guess robert
Variations in geyser activity may be more related to the amount of precipitation (rain and snow) that the area receives. I’d look for co-relation between geyser activity and precip records, or Winter snowfall amounts.
Wish handkerchief pool would start working. Sounds fascinating.
Of course geysers activity is related with volcanic activity and likely with solar activity too. If I were in your shoes I’ll keep my path away from Yellowstone…
Some will be thinking that trying to connect geysers erupting at Yellowstone with Sunspots is stretching things ? However, the connection is real. Fewer sunspots, like as we have at present, allows cosmic ray energy to penetrate into the solar system. This is due to the breakdown of the heliospheric bubble that usually blocks out cosmic rays. So presently we are recieving three to four times more cosmic ray energy than was the case before the sunspots started to be so few. The process is called COSMIC RAY INDUCTION and in my opinion it is the driving force behind the weather cooling down, because it creates greater amount of cloud and fog and haze, especially at high altitude and high latitude where we have seen noctilucent clouds at 83 kilometers altitude, which are blocking out sunlight. Thus the weather is effected. However, the same cosmic ray induction is giving rise to greater amount of earthquake and volcano activity too. To say that cosmic ray induction drives earthquakes and volcano’s is still controversial. However, I go even further in that I also say that cosmic ray induction is the driving force for the existence of gravity too. Remember that I also hold to the Hollow Earth Theory as well as the Steady State Cosmology. Space here is too little for me to go into details. My reasoning to based on scientific principles. So please do not just take my word for anything. What worries me about the recent increase of geysers erupting at Yellowstone is that it might be the only warning that we will ever get of an impending super volcano eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera.
I won’t take your word for anything…Do you live on the inside or on the outside of our hollow planet? I think that is a fair question to ask. …
I fail to understand how you reconcile hollow Earth with volcanism, gravity(a function of mass), and a few other things. Hollow Earth theory while an interesting idea, (http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/morrow.htm)
has many things going against it, a few of which are Gravity, the Geo-Magnetic field, and seismic studies.
If Earth was indeed hollow its gravity strength would be far less than it is.
If Earth is indeed hollow, then its magnetic field strength would be next to nothing.
Here is one of the most credible explanations of Geo-magnetism I could find: http://youtu.be/O-V3yR2RZUE
Getting a picture of Earth’s interior North American Seismic array:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiW0ycCodQI
and Earth structure as revealed by seismic study:
http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/vdivener/notes/earth_int.htm
You can’t use CRI as a catchall for things you don’t understand.
(Muons produced by)”Cosmic Rays do not penetrate much more than 4000 meters.”(into Earth’s crust) :
http://www.deepscience.org/contents/summary.shtml
Although Neutrinos(a type of muon) are said to pass entirely through the Earth.
It is my somewhat educated opinion that variability of Earth’s magnetic field strength has more to do with tectonic activity(quakes and volcanism) than do Cosmic Ray effects.
Good things come in small packages!
Even small geysers can portend doom!
Yellowstone will erupt this year
after a spate of megaquakes!
Let the show begin!