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The Public Fears An Eruption At Yellowstone: \u2018Spate Of Tremors\u2019 Reported<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Laying underneath the tranquil and beautiful geysers, waterfalls, and mountains of Wyoming lies the Yellowstone caldera.\u00a0 The supervolcano has been worrying some for decades, but now experts fear an eruption could happen soon after reporting a \u201cspate of tremors.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to WMD<\/em><\/a>, a spate of four mini-tremors in the area following a period of \u201crest\u201d has raised fears among some that the supervolcano is about to blow. Although the Yellowstone supervolcano hasn\u2019t erupted for 631,000 years, scientists have been diligently working to understand the last eruption so they can more accurately predict when a big one will happen again.<\/p>\n

The most recent quake came on March 11<\/a> when a small 1.5 tremor took place beneath the surface. The strongest one, a 1.8 magnitude earthquake, came just hours before this, and people are concerned that Yellowstone could be about to blow.<\/p>\n

The growing concern among the public is evident, but many scientists still say the activity at the supervolcano is perfectly normal.\u00a0Tom Skilling, a meteorologist for WGN News<\/em><\/a>, a local news site in Chicago, explains that is it normal for the volcano to have less active weeks. \u201cMinor earthquakes occur in the Yellowstone area 50 or more times per week, but a major eruption is not expected in the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yellowstone<\/a> is one of the most seismically active areas in the world and there are regular earthquakes detected in and around the supervolcano.\u00a0 This latest spate of tremors follows a period in February where\u00a0more than 200 small<\/a> tremors detected were detected over a period of 10 days. According to experts with the US Geological Survey,<\/a> that swarm began on February 8 in a region roughly eight miles northeast of West Yellowstone, Montana and increased dramatically in the days following.<\/p>\n

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The Public Fears An Eruption At Yellowstone: \u2018Spate Of Tremors\u2019 Reported Laying underneath the tranquil and beautiful geysers, waterfalls, and mountains of Wyoming lies the Yellowstone caldera.\u00a0 The supervolcano has been worrying some for decades, but now experts fear an eruption could happen soon after reporting a \u201cspate of tremors.\u201d According to WMD, a spate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[6489,6082,6490,15464,15392],"class_list":["post-32325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-mac-slavo","tag-nuclear-winter","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-supervolcano","tag-yellowstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32326,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions\/32326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}