UPDATE: IT WAS DELIBERATE! Yellowstone Public Seismographs Taken OFF-line – Wait ’till you see why!

The seismographs monitoring earthquakes around the Yellowstone super-volcano have been deliberately taken OFFLINE from public view. This is a confirmed deliberate act and will stay this way so the public is not able to see seismic activity there. (This story has been UPDATED as of 10:14 AM EDT on April 6, 2016)

Being able to see what is taking place in and around Yellowstone is of great interest to many people because if there is a sudden flurry of earthquake activity, it COULD — but not necessarily — signal a pending eruption.

Since Yellowstone is the only “super volcano” on the North American continent, and is VERY geologically active, if an eruption were to actually take place, the western two-thirds of the United States would POTENTIALLY be hit with volcanic ash and a severe disruption of life.

So why were the public taken OFFLINE for the public? No one is providing any answers. Even more peculiar, the privately-funded seismographs from the University of Utah . . . are also OFFLINE to the public. WE NOW HAVE AN ANSWER:

The images of seismograms that appeared on SuperStation95 have always come from from the University of Utah, a.k.a. the UUSS. Sometime on the evening of April 4th, 2016, they suddenly got rid of those images. No one is able to archive them anymore or present them to you in the efficient fashion you’ve come to know and love.

From what we can tell so far about their changes, seismographic images have now become just “seismographic image.” Every seismogram now shows only and exactly the past 24 hours of its life, as if they don’t want anyone having the ability to look at its history even two days later.

The filenames don’t even have anything in them anymore but the station’s ID. The only way for anyone to compensate for this is to manually download each station’s image once a day and then stick it in the archives. That means they’d never be live again. You’d have to go use their site to get live images. They couldn’t have invented a better way to break third-party sites if they tried.

After poking around to various folks involved in the University of Utah Seismic Center, one person at that facility “quietly” e-mailed us a single graphic image which gave us pause:

In the image below, the Green Colored line represents the border of Yellowstone National Park. The (barely visible) gold line represents the mouth of the super-volcano, known as the Caldera. The red dots in the image below show all the earthquakes that have recently taken place at the Yellowstone super-volcano. This is why the public seismographs are suddenly OFFLINE to the general public:

Courtesy: University of Utah Seismic Center

We are not seismologists, but it looks (to us) as though something is happening at Yellowstone. We’re seeking out professionals to interpret what we’re seeing and will update this story when that info becomes available.

In the meantime, as untrained laymen, the red dots in the image above tell us something “not good” seems to be taking place at Yellowstone.

DO NOT PANIC; Just Be Aware

IT IS VITAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO OFFICIAL WARNING WHATSOEVER ABOUT ANY ERUPTION OR EVEN ANY PROBLEM AT YELLOWSTONE AND YOU SHOULD NOT TREAT THIS ARTICLE AS ANY TYPE OF WARNING.

Please don’t go off, half-cocked, and start calling authorities about this report because there is absolutely no need to do that; if they feel there is anything the public needs to know, they will tell us.

We are simply reporting the OFFLINE status of the public seismographs and now (april 6) confirming the change was DELIBERATE.

Of course, there is that very first graphic image above with all the red dots showing the HUGE amount of earthquakes taking place at Yellowstone, but even though it was quietly sent to us, we do not know how to properly INTERPRET that graphic; it might be nothing out of the ordinary at all.

The purpose of this article and the intent of the authors is merely to report news of an unusual outage of important public information. It seems wise to us to explain what’s at stake if, Heaven forbid, something were to go wrong at Yellowstone. We cannot emphasize enough, we have no word whatsoever of anything wrong right now and you should NOT panic or change your life in any way at all on account of this report. Just be aware. Someone decided they didn’t want the public to be able to see the seismic activity anymore; at least in the manner we had all become accustomed.

We have a feeling this is not good.