This morning a friend posted that she had been woken up by a 5.8 magnitude earth quake in Lincoln, Montana. That's about 250 miles north of Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is on our bucket list. We'll do a northern trek to get to Yellowstone and beyond.
The USGS has an observatory in Yellowstone. Following image courtesy of USGS.
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory |
"The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has been hit with more than 400 earthquakes since June 12. Researchers say it's nothing to be alarmed about, though....... In a statement to the Star Valley Independent, scientists from the University of Utah -- which monitors the volcano -- said the earthquake swarms are nothing new. “This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years, but is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010.”
Here are a few links.
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/
https://watchers.news/2017/07/02/yellowstone-volcano-earthquakes-june-2017/
http://www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
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