News Blip: The Yellowstone Volcano Activity
Newsweek Reports On The Likelihood Of The Eruption Of A Supervolcano Beneath Yellowstone And How A Misunderstanding May Have Led To Panic
As you may have heard, a volcano underneath Yellowstone park that has been monitored is coming to light as scientist think there's a chance for it to erupt and potentially rain hell on earth. Further research has determined the probability to eruption is "exceedingly low." According to Snopes, a fact-checking website, these stories seem to have misinterpreted a New York Times article based on the work of Hannah Shamloo of Arizona State University—and to have raised the specter that the volcano under Yellowstone could, at some point soon, undergo a “supereruption.”
Newsweek writer Joseph Frankel relays in his article: "The findings presented by Shamloo do not allow scientists to predict when the next eruption will take place. But they can serve as a kind of early warning system." Mike Poland, director of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, spoke with Newsweek and said, "Even if large eruptions are preceded by only decades of unrest, this is still something we are positioned to detect well in advance. Yellowstone is one of the best-monitored volcanoes in the world, with a host of seismic, deformation, thermal and geochemical sensors and satellite data sets always looking for changes.”
Check out the full news story at Newsweek right here.
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