YELLOWSTONE MOUNTAINS ARE WARPING! Timelapse videos.

Timelapse videos are not provided by USGS, NPS, or University of Utah (all responsible for monitoring Yellowstone) so I started making my own daily timelapses since March from the raw webcam captures available online.

Note, all timelapses are created from still images taken every 30 seconds to a minute, sped up to four frame per second, so each second is about four minutes in real time. Timestamp at the top.

Watch from 02:19. Fullscreen.




Watch from 02:15. Fullscreen.




Trick of the light? Camera movement? No. Terrifyingly real, as bizarre as it looks.

This is the live seismogram reading for the location in the second video (North East Entrance): [link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

From the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) map on USGS: [link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

Exactly what causes the visual warping is subject to debate though I suspect it is an electromagnetic anomaly owing to the way the mountains seem to bend and curve, even with the skyline moving. You'd think people would notice this, but it happens so slowly (only visible in timelapse, over several minutes at a time) and on such a seemingly large scale that there likely isn't much to feel.

About time to raise the alert level from GREEN / NORMAL, don't you think? [link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

Of course, you should know... They can't do that. And they won't. Don't hold it against them, it's not personal. If they are wrong, there goes the economy, for nothing.

Will it blow soon? Tomorrow? Ever? I don't know. I will make no predictions about when. But this has progressed since March of this year when the 4.8 earthquake struck inside Yellowstone and now the warping is downright obvious.

All videos on this channel are Creative Commons license to make it easy for other video makers to share and incorporate the footage. All original frames are available here: [link to uploadshed.com]

Here is a good post for the latest seismic and other anomalies at Yellowstone: Thread: Yellowstone Caldera - Hydro-Thermal Super Volcanic Eruption 2014 -update 10/07/14 - Eruption Drills, Magmatic Evolution & USGS Data Cover Up (Page 56)

Almost every available sensor is going wild out there, worsening and worsening since the March quake, to levels not seen before.

Disclaimer: I'm not a geologist or professional in this field. Simply a concerned bystander. Feel free to ask questions but don't expect anything in the manner of "expert" opinion!

Last Edited by AllThatCanBe on 07/26/2014 04:26 PM