{"id":34887,"date":"2018-06-08T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34887"},"modified":"2018-06-08T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:44:11","slug":"yellowstone-eruption-fears-spike-as-largest-geyser-erupts-for-the-8th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34887","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone Eruption Fears Spike As Largest Geyser Erupts For The 8th Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yellowstone Eruption Fears Spike As Largest Geyser Erupts For The 8th Time<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Yellowstone caldera eruption fears have spiked as the supervolcano\u2019s largest geyser erupted for the eight time.\u00a0 So far, scientists aren\u2019t certain why the Steamboat geyser continues to erupt, adding to the fears.<\/p>\n

After years of silence, Yellowstone\u2019s Steamboat geyser, a better show than Old Faithful, has spewed boiling water hundreds of feet in the air eight times since March.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Steamboat, the tallest geyser in the vast Yellowstone National Park, isn\u2019t reliable at all, unlike the more famous Old Faithful that belches steam with regularity<\/a>. But the fact is, Steamboat has been more faithful, at least lately, spewing eight times since March 14, after being silent for nearly four years. But that regularity is terrifying and puzzling scientists.<\/p>\n

Until this recent series of eruptions, the last time Steamboat blew was in September 2014. Steamboat\u2019s latest eruption was Monday morning when the geyser shot boiling hot water hundreds of feet into the air. Steam billowed from the geyser for hours longer.\u00a0Steamboat is located in the Norris Geyser Basin, known to have the hottest and most changeable thermal area in nearly 3,500-square-mile wilderness park that sits on a volcanic hot spot called a caldera. That accounts for the geyser\u2019s towering columns of steam (it\u2019s very, very hot underground) but leaves a major fear-provoking question\u00a0unanswered:<\/a> Why now, and is it a sign the giant volcano is waking up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scientists don\u2019t know why the Steamboat geyser has become more active, but they still insist that no major eruption is on the horizon.\u00a0\u201cIt is a\u00a0spectacular geyser<\/a>,\u201d Michael Poland, the U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, wrote to CNN<\/em> in an email<\/a>. \u201cWhen it erupts, it generally has very big eruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yellowstone Eruption Fears Spike As Largest Geyser Erupts For The 8th Time Yellowstone caldera eruption fears have spiked as the supervolcano\u2019s largest geyser erupted for the eight time.\u00a0 So far, scientists aren\u2019t certain why the Steamboat geyser continues to erupt, adding to the fears. After years of silence, Yellowstone\u2019s Steamboat geyser, a better show than […]<\/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":[6489,6490,20410,13655],"class_list":["post-34887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-steamboat-geyser","tag-yellowstone-supervolcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34887","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=34887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34888,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34887\/revisions\/34888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}