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Old Faithful, photographed at Yellowstone National Park.
A hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. Image courtesy of the USGS.
Yesterday I left a little teaser about the current earthquake swarm going on at the Yellowstone Caldera. Eruptions readers have come through with even more information on the swarm. Over 250 earthquakes have occurred in the…
A chipmunk, photographed near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.
Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone National Park.
A few thoughts about faulting, earthquakes and eruptions:
The earthquakes at Yellowstone have been universally attributed to fault movement rather than magmatic activity by the USGS and the researchers at the University of Utah. This is likely…