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Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption Fears SPIKE As Geysers Become More Active<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Some of Yellowstone\u2019s geysers have been more active lately reigniting fears that the massive supervolcano will erupt. The sudden bursts of steaming hot water highlight the dramatic nature of Yellowstone while reminding us we are all at the caldera\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While average people seemed concerned, geologists seemed excited and thrilled when Yellowstone\u2019s steamboat geyser began erupting again in 2018. It has been erupting as often as once a week since last March, according to National Geographic,<\/em><\/a> and scientists continue to say the volatile activity is not a sign of an imminent eruption.  The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory reported that Steamboat has now set a record by erupting a whopping 32 times in 2018<\/a>, a personal best for the geyser for a single calendar year.  It\u2019s the world\u2019s tallest active geyser, and at the best of times, it can shoot hot water 300 feet into the air. However, it isn\u2019t just the Steamboat Geyser that has been concerning people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ear Spring Geyser, for example, has been almost since 1957, but it erupted spectacularly a few months back and sprayed human garbage from the 1930s <\/a>all over the national park. But scientists insist this doesn\u2019t mean an eruption is pending. \u201cIt\u2019s a good lesson in how geysers actually work,\u201d said Michael Poland, the scientist-in-charge at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. \u201cAs soon as you start to recognize a pattern [in a geyser\u2019s eruption], it changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs [far as] geysers go, Steamboat is sort of typical in terms of having these sporadic, unpredictable eruptions,\u201d Poland notes. \u201cBut because it\u2019s this really tall geyser and it has this name recognition, it makes it that much more interesting.\u201d But again, it\u2019s not just Steamboat Geyser that has people concerned.  \u201cBut back in 2007 to 2008, Giant [geyser] went bananas,\u201d Poland says. \u201cIt erupted many, many more times than it had in the past year\u2014and Steamboat didn\u2019t do anything of the sort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption Fears SPIKE As Geysers Become More Active Some of Yellowstone\u2019s geysers have been more active lately reigniting fears that the massive supervolcano will erupt. The sudden bursts of steaming hot water highlight the dramatic nature of Yellowstone while reminding us we are all at the caldera\u2019s mercy. While average people seemed concerned, geologists seemed […]<\/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":[6489,6490,13655],"class_list":["post-43954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-yellowstone-supervolcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954","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=43954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43955,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions\/43955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}