Yesterday on his show Michigan's Steve Gruber uncritically read from this dark story, which has several iterations on the internet featuring a lurid "sea of red" map of earthquakes in Yellowstone, from which this claim:
So why are the public seismographs from the US Geological Survey (USGS) OFFLINE (to the public) today? No one is providing any answers.
Even more peculiar, the privately-funded seismographs from the University of Utah . . . are also OFFLINE (to the public) right now. No one is providing any explanation for this either.
The USGS page here showing earthquakes as recent as yesterday in Yellowstone features this box, with dead links to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations page here:
So what's up with that?
Well, just click "home" and the University of Utah Seismograph Stations page tells you:
UUSS has launched a redesigned website! Please visit us at http://www.seis.utah.edu (http://quake.utah.edu ) to check out the new features.
Obviously, the government page at USGS hasn't been updated yet. Government moves slowly, and often incompetently. No news there.
Also at the Univ. of Utah home page you'll see this map of reality:
Not this scary beast, which appears to be an historical map of all events over a long period of time:
Paranoia will destroy ya.
