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Last Nights Wyoming Earthquake

Magnitude 3.7 - Epicenter - Just outside of Alpine Wyoming.

How outside? Well, from the maps I'm reviewing this morning, its almost precisely under my sisters house just outside of Alpine. Way to go sis!

Here in "shaky-land", a 3.7 would hardly even count as an earthquake, but a 3.7 directly under your house would tend to get your attention.

Whats with the quakes up there in Idaho-Wyoming-Montana lately? Well I'm sure it has something to do with this:

That is the Yellowstone Volcanic Caldera, which is just a bit north of my sisters place in Alpine. The blue thing is an outline of Lake Yellowstone. The dots are earthquakes since December 26th. You cant see it here but there have been over 900 since that date.

Volcanoes are good at generating earthquakes. Yellowstone is a big volcano. One naturally follows the other and once again we have evidence that the universe we live in is not static but dynamic and changing right before our eyes.

Posted @ January 16, 2009 08:15 AM | Current Affairs

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