{"id":32583,"date":"2018-03-20T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32583"},"modified":"2018-03-20T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:56:15","slug":"yellowstone-supervolcano-fears-rise-as-worlds-largest-active-geyser-erupts-first-time-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32583","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone Supervolcano Fears Rise As World’s Largest Active Geyser Erupts First Time Since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Fears Rise As World’s Largest Active Geyser Erupts First Time Since 2014<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A series of potential eruptions have been reported from the world’s largest active geyser <\/strong>at Yellowstone National Park. If confirmed, they would be the first since 2014.<\/em><\/strong> Weather.com reports<\/a> that park officials said employees reported seeing an eruption at the Steamboat Geyser in northwest Wyoming Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

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Steamboat is located in a part of the park that\u2019s snowed in much of the year. Roads into the area currently are closed for spring plowing.<\/p>\n

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As SHTFplan.com’s Mac Slavo notes,<\/a> the geyser can shoot water more than 300 feet during significant eruptions and the park service made the announcement about the\u00a0world\u2019s tallest active geyser on Friday,<\/a>as geologists compared the accounts to thermal sensors in the area. It was determined by scientists that it \u201ccould be a series of minor eruptions,\u201d as opposed to one big eruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A series of\u00a0earthquakes have been rumbling underground over the past few month<\/a>s, with as many as 200 recorded in a matter of days.\u00a0The volcano is \u201cunder strain\u201d according to some experts<\/a>\u00a0but researchers still continue to say not to worry, because the Steamboat Geyser\u2019s eruptions had little connection to a volcano like Yellowstone.<\/strong>\u00a0Using Global Positioning System, borehole tiltmeters, and borehole strainmeters to measure minute changes in deformation at Yellowstone, David Mencin and Glen Mattioli said:<\/p>\n

\u201cthe strain signal is larger than would be expected if the crust under Yellowstone were completely solid\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Historically, the geyser has gone anywhere from four days to 50 years in between eruptions. <\/strong>Unlike its counterpart\u00a0Old Faithful (named for its predictability) and a favorite attraction, the Steamboat Geyser is far from easy to predict.\u00a0 It can go 4 days or 50 years between eruption, the last time being in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Yellowstone National Park contains more than 10,000 thermal features and sits on top of the world\u2019s largest volcano, capable of sending\u00a02,000 times more matter into the sky than the Mount St. Helens eruption<\/a>. The last volcanic eruption at Yellowstone was 70,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Fears Rise As World’s Largest Active Geyser Erupts First Time Since 2014 A series of potential eruptions have been reported from the world’s largest active geyser at Yellowstone National Park. If confirmed, they would be the first since 2014. Weather.com reports that park officials said employees reported seeing an eruption at the Steamboat […]<\/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],"tags":[19361,13655,4318],"class_list":["post-32583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-active-geyser","tag-yellowstone-supervolcano","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583","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=32583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32584,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583\/revisions\/32584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}