NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

INCIDENTS

Yellowstone NP

Earthquake Swarm Occurs In Park; No Damage Reported

An on-going earthquake swarm is being reported approximately seven miles west of Ojo Caliente Hot Spring in Lower Geyser Basin. The University of Utah reports that a notable swarm of small earthquakes as large as magnitude 2.7 occurred throughout the evening of January 17th and morning of January 18th. The largest earthquakes in the swarm as of yesterday morning were a pair of shocks of magnitude 2.7 that occurred at 5:02 and 7:38 p.m. MST Sunday evening. There were a total of 206 located earthquakes in the swarm of magnitude 2.7 to 0.5 as of 9 a.m. Monday morning, and there was one report of one of the larger earthquakes being felt in Yellowstone. Swarms of this nature are relatively common in this part of the park. The swarm is considered normal for tectonic-related sources in the volcanic setting of Yellowstone and not an indication of premonitory volcanic or hydrothermal activity, but ongoing analyses will evaluate these different sources. Information on the earthquake can be viewed at the University of Utah seismograph stations: HYPERLINK "http://www.seis.utah.edu/_" http://www.seis.utah.edu/ . Seismograph recordings from stations of the Yellowstone seismograph station can be viewed online at: HYPERLINK "http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/index.html_" http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/index. html . [Press release, University of Utah]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Director's Office - Two of the world's largest and most endangered birds will benefit from a sister park agreement signed last Friday by the directors of the National Park Service and Argentina's Administracion de Parques Nacionales. This formal partnership uniting Pinnacles National Monument in California and Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito in Cordoba will strengthen condor conservation efforts at both sites.

Intermountain Region - Four projects in three regions have been selected for support in 2010 through the Park NAGPRA internship program.

Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings and the status of legislation pertinent to the National Park Service.

Lessons Learned Center - After nearly 30 years with the NPS, Paula Nasiatka is retiring from her center manager position at the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center to become the science lab coordinator at Tucson's Tanque Verde Elementary School. Photo.

Accounting Operations Center - John Madigan is retiring from the National Park Service following more than 36 years of service.

To see these and other stories posted on InsideNPS (or NPS Digest, its public version), click on one or the other of the following links (please note that not all stories in the former appear in the latter):

NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index

Non-NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/

NPS serious incident submission standards can be found at the following web site: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504" http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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