USGS scientist addresses spike in internet searches for Yellowstone caldera after the quakes.
After two strong earthquakes hit in California last week, there was a spike in internet searches for Yellowstone caldera and Yellowstone volcano. The quakes—a magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 on July 4 and 5 respectively—had apparently raised fears an eruption at the supervolcano could be triggered by these events. Related search terms, according to Google Trends, included"California earthquake" and"the big one California.
He said that strong earthquakes are not a rare occurrence for the western U.S. The region is covered in fault lines—an interactive map of them. Fault lines are cracks in the Earth's crust that have the potential to trigger earthquakes when they move around. It has been 70,000 years since Yellowstone last erupted. Over this time, there may have been over 7,000 strong earthquakes—none of which have led to an eruption at Yellowstone. Poland also said that the distance of the earthquake to Yellowstone does not matter—in 1959 a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit on the Montana-Idaho border, on the boundary of the National Park, but there was still no eruption.
Last Saturday, California Volcano Observatory released a statement saying that a magnitude 5.4 earthquake had triggered an earthquake swarm at the Coso Volcanic Field. However, the volcano alert level was kept at normal and it said there"is no imminent threat of an eruption."
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