Earthquakes in Yellowstone
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Earthquakes in Yellowstone - are these buffalo screwed?
The end of the world as we know it? I feel fine.
Since this past Sunday, there have been 469 earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park!
Yikes. After I decided in 2008 that I needed to see a little bit of my own country, I drove out to Yellowstone to see what all the fuss was about.
What I found, and wrote about back (Yellowstone National Park) then was a ticking geological time bomb. The entire park is actually the caldera of the world’s largest plugged volcano and there is an immense amount of activity going on underneath the tourists’ feet.
The land has actually been pushed upward by 8 inches in the last 4 years due to the building pressure. That same pressure makes new geysers and hot pools pop up all over the park daily.
Now with 469 little earthquakes in Yellowstone being a sure indicator that something out of sight is brewing, it makes me wonder if I should be bailing out early for that Thai island….and all this time I thought I had until 2012 to have fun. 
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Kentucky, USA
“… are these buffalo screwed?”
I have a friend that’s been talking about this for years. Scary stuff.
I’ve been trying to get CNN to check out the Yellowstone Caldera earthquakes for days now. Even the USGS earthquake website does not show what is really going on.
469? Yikes! Sounds like a rumbly part of the world
hi there! im new to your blog but im enjoying it immensely!
my fionse and i are planning on traveling to europe starting in may this year, and im really stressing over the cheapest ways to get places…ive found camping will be teh cheapest way to sleep…anyway..any advice on these teach english overseas sites? i always thought you had to have at least a bacchelors degree in something to be qualified to do that..now it looks liek i would just need a tefl certificate? and ive heard some places are rip offs? any advice about this and getting around europe cheap would be much appreciated !
keep on traveling!
afira
Yep, Yellowstone National Park is pretty scary, but what can we do about it?