Yellowstone National Park Rattled by Largest Earthquake in 34 years

[MindMover]

(Reuters) - Yellowstone National Park, which sits atop one of the world's largest super-volcanoes, was struck on Sunday by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, the biggest recorded there since February 1980, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.

The tremor, a relatively light event by seismic standards, struck the northwest corner of the park and capped a flurry of smaller quakes at Yellowstone since Thursday, geologists at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations said in a statement.

The latest earthquake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the Norris Geyser Basin and was felt about 23 miles away in two small Montana towns adjacent to year-around entrances to the park - Gardiner and West Yellowstone.

The national park spans 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km) of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and draws about 3 million visitors each year to its iconic geysers and wildlife attractions, including bison.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yellowstone-national-park-rattled-by-largest-earthquake-in-34-years/?&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20140331

This is not a good sign ...

[hatrack]

1. But will it cause Steamboat Geyser to revive?

Went off in August, 2013, for the first time in eight years.

And I, alas, was sitting in front of a computer.

[jakeXT]

2. I didn't know Yellowstone was a hotspot volcano, I learned that from watching a documentary recently