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http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/03/25/bnews/br92.txt
Yellowstone Park hit with 4.1-magnitude earthquake
Posted on March 25
By BRETT FRENCH of the Billings Gazette
BILLINGS - A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park early Tuesday morning, with the epicenter located about 23 miles south of Cooke City.
Cooke City resident Suzy Hahn said the quake hit at 5:59 a.m., just before her alarm clock went off, and at first sounded like a snowplow coming down the road.
“Then it just really shook the house for a while and a while and a while,” she said. “My husband and I both sat up in bed and said, ?Earthquake!’ ”
In Mammoth, at the park’s north entrance, park spokesman Al Nash said he felt nothing.
“Most folks didn’t even feel it,” he said.
With few visitors or workers in the park this time of the year, there were no reports of damage.
“At least it could have knocked the snow off my roof,” Hahn said.
Cooke City is still deep in the throes of winter, with 125.5 inches of snow recorded at the nearby Snotel site in Fisher Creek on March 21, the highest so far this season. More snow is forecast over the next week.
Yellowstone National Park is an active seismic region, with the last quake in the park a 3.7 temblor on Jan. 8. Tuesday’s quake was somewhat unusual in its location on the east side of the park.
“They’ve never had an earthquake of this magnitude in this area of the park for some time, according to the University of Utah,” said Mike Stickney of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte.
The University of Utah’s seismographs recorded the quake. According to the school’s news release, only two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater have occurred within 16 miles of the epicenter of Tuesday’s temblor since 1962. The largest was a magnitude 3.5 on July 20, 1992, four miles northeast of Fishing Bridge.
The Tuesday quake was reportedly felt in Pahaska Tepee, outside the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park, and in southwest Montana as well as in western Wyoming.
)http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/03/25/bnews/br92.txt
Yellowstone Park hit with 4.1-magnitude earthquake
Posted on March 25
By BRETT FRENCH of the Billings Gazette
BILLINGS - A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park early Tuesday morning, with the epicenter located about 23 miles south of Cooke City.
Cooke City resident Suzy Hahn said the quake hit at 5:59 a.m., just before her alarm clock went off, and at first sounded like a snowplow coming down the road.
“Then it just really shook the house for a while and a while and a while,” she said. “My husband and I both sat up in bed and said, ?Earthquake!’ ”
In Mammoth, at the park’s north entrance, park spokesman Al Nash said he felt nothing.
“Most folks didn’t even feel it,” he said.
With few visitors or workers in the park this time of the year, there were no reports of damage.
“At least it could have knocked the snow off my roof,” Hahn said.
Cooke City is still deep in the throes of winter, with 125.5 inches of snow recorded at the nearby Snotel site in Fisher Creek on March 21, the highest so far this season. More snow is forecast over the next week.
Yellowstone National Park is an active seismic region, with the last quake in the park a 3.7 temblor on Jan. 8. Tuesday’s quake was somewhat unusual in its location on the east side of the park.
“They’ve never had an earthquake of this magnitude in this area of the park for some time, according to the University of Utah,” said Mike Stickney of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte.
The University of Utah’s seismographs recorded the quake. According to the school’s news release, only two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater have occurred within 16 miles of the epicenter of Tuesday’s temblor since 1962. The largest was a magnitude 3.5 on July 20, 1992, four miles northeast of Fishing Bridge.
The Tuesday quake was reportedly felt in Pahaska Tepee, outside the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park, and in southwest Montana as well as in western Wyoming.
