A nonprofit organization has issued a warning on one of its sensors near Yellowstone National Park.
The warning caught the attention of blogger Tom Lupshu of the Bunker Report.
Lupshu has been posting videos about Yellowstone and helped the one earlier this year that purportedly showed bison fleeing the park go viral. Park officials later denied that the video and others like it were in any way connected to earthquake activity or the supervolcano under Yellowstone.
“Wanted to jump in here real fast ... One of my people did some great research and sent it to me,” Lupshu said in the latest video, which he posted on May 26.
“This is from a company called Unavco. They are like a nonprofit organization that puts out sensors and monitors ... and geographical stuff, early warning signs, alerts for earthquakes. What you’re looking at here is right outside Yellowstone, if you look at the bottom right corner here you can see Yellowstone Lake.
“Now the reason I’m shooting this out is they sent me this this morning and the one right there in the yellow is on warning right now. So this is a warning going out from a nonprofit organization that monitors these things. Take care.”
Unavco describes itself on its website as “a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy.”
It adds that it promotes research using a variety of sensor types at or near the Earth’s surface.
But the page with the monitoring map that Lupshu references isn’t specific in regards to its purpose. Although there is indeed a warning on one of the sensors--and a failure on two others--it’s not clear what it means.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Geological Service’s Yellowstone Volcano Observatory has not given any alerts.
