{"id":30698,"date":"2021-04-13T09:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=30698"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:24:01","slug":"yellowstone-volcano-105-earthquakes-rock-supervolcano-amid-fears-its-overdue-an-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/yellowstone-volcano-105-earthquakes-rock-supervolcano-amid-fears-its-overdue-an-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone volcano: 105 earthquakes rock supervolcano amid fears it’s overdue an eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earthquake\u00a0<\/a>trackers located around the\u00a0Yellowstone volcano<\/a>\u00a0and national park area have had a busy time in March. A total of 105 earthquakes rocked the Yellowstone region last month, including three “major water eruptions” of the world-famous Steamboat Geyser. Although the activity is within the norms of Yellowstone’s monthly output, many people live in fear the US supervolcano is overdue for another major eruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yellowstone’s three biggest volcanic blasts went off about 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago, leading some people to think the volcano <\/a>erupts like clockwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the fears are unfounded, social media is rife with claims Yellowstone is a ticking time bomb waiting to take the world by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past three eruptions are estimated to have blanketed much of the western half of North America in ash and volcanic debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS<\/a>), the eruptions deposited material “a third of a meter deep several hundred kilometres” from the volcano, and centimetres thick even farther out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this happen again any time soon? That is very unlikely but people are still needlessly worried about Yellowstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Twitter user said: “I’ve decided to live my life with the knowledge that we’re 30,000 years overdue for the Yellowstone volcano eruption so I might as well have fun.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another person said: “Currently thinking about how the Yellowstone volcano is overdue for an eruption and when it does erupt it’ll destroy the entire continental US.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a third person said: “At any moment the Yellowstone supervolcano could erupt and we’d all die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if the USGS does not believe the US supervolcano is overdue for another blast, why have there been so many earthquakes in the region last month?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US supervolcano experiences anywhere up to 3,000 earthquakes each year, many of which hit in the form of earthquake swarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2021 has been a fairly busy month with 105 tremors, of which 12 hit in a swarm between March 9 and 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USGS said: “The largest event was a minor earthquake of magnitude 2.4 located 16 miles southeast of Mammoth, WY, on March 3 at 2.31pm MST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A small swarm of 12 earthquakes, with magnitudes between -0.1 and 1.8, was recorded in the area of Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, during March 9 to 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earthquake\u00a0trackers located around the\u00a0Yellowstone volcano\u00a0and national park area have had a busy time in March. A total of 105 earthquakes rocked the Yellowstone region last month, including three “major water eruptions” of the world-famous Steamboat Geyser. Although the activity is within the norms of Yellowstone’s monthly output, many people live in fear the US supervolcano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":14874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/yellowstone-701489.jpg?fit=590%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30699,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions\/30699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}