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Since the last eruption on Yellowstone Super Volcano About 640 thousand years passed from the national park of the same name. However, in recent years, under the volcanic dome is noted a certain increase in the size of the lava reservoir, which cannot but excite both scientists and the US population. New measurements made researchers from the University of Utah showed that a lava lake twice as much as previously thought. Its length is 80 km, and the width is about 19 km. Lava is in an active state, therefore even the smallest eruption with its exit to the surface is capable of provoke a real natural disaster. But even more earthquakes with an epicenter near hot springs heated by lava from Yellowstone. First of all from a possible cataclysm the rivers adjacent to the volcano will suffer, forest land and nearby villages. They are guaranteed flooding and ash loss in case of eruption or total disruption in case of earthquakes. Destruction will follow from breakaways volcano pieces of rock tossed up by geysers. Under the volcano Yellowstone Lava Volume Growth Strong Threat earthquakes are much more real than the threat of an eruption, because in the period from 1985 to 2013 about 4.5 were registered here thousand tremors, and over the past week – 25 individual episodes. The magnitude of the strongest was only 2.9 points, but no one can rule out the possibility of a 7-point earthquake, which will cause a catastrophe. The chances of such an outcome are more than 10%. The last time an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 was recorded in 1959. For the Rockies, it has become the most destructive in stories. That everything is heading for a new earthquake or eruption, scientists have no doubt, but how long will it take, a year or 10 thousand years, impossible to predict.
Yellowstone Earthquake Volcanoes
