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Scientists and Researchers Concerned About Unusual Seismic Activity in Yellowstone Following Earthquake Swarms

07/18/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Reporter: “The mountain west region and Yellowstone in particular are no strangers to earthquakes, but what scientists say is unusual is to see the kind of energy that they’re seeing for this extended period of time.”

U of U Researcher: “We haven’t had this energetic or intensive swarm in many years. Well over a decade.  So it’s not normal,  it’s unusual… We don’t know why this happened now.  We normally get a thousand to 2 thousand earthquakes a year in Yellowstone.  The fact that we got 250 or so in three days makes — we made up a lot of that energy release in a short period of time…”

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    lyhtyll
    04/12/2012 at 4:00 PM
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    the Yellowstone is about to erupt…..there will be a sudden destruction!!!):

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