- According to the US Geological Survey, an area around Yellowstone National Park has felt nearly a dozen earthquakes in the space of 24 hours.
- The region has been particularly active, experiencing 34 quakes in the last month.
- The shocks, which occurred on Friday, ranged between 1.6 to 3.1 magnitudes and were about three miles deep.
- Yellowstone is one of the most seismically active places in the entire country, experiencing around 700 to 3,000 earthquakes every year.
An area near Yellowstone National Park has been struck by nearly a dozen earthquakes on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.
West Yellowstone in Montana reported around eleven earthquakes on Friday, with the strongest one measuring a magnitude of 3.1. The area has been hit by an additional 34 quakes in the past month, according to Idaho Statesman.
The other quakes ranged between 1.6 to 3.1 magnitudes and were about three miles deep.
A swarm of earthquakes is not unusual for the area. Yellowstone is one of the most seismically active places in the US, experiencing around 700 to 3,000 earthquakes every year, according to the national park's website.
The earthquakes tend to occur in clusters. The largest occurred in 1985 when more than 3,000 earthquakes were recorded in three months on the northwest side of the park.
The park is also well-known for its supervolcano. The US only has two supervolcanos: one at Yellowstone and another at Long Valley in California.
The Yellowstone one is measure about 34 by 45 miles, and is as little as three miles below the surface.
Scientists don't think Yellowstone's supervolcano would be erupting soon (at least not in the next thousand years). Despite it being the subject of many apocalypse fantasies, the odds of it erupting within a given year are one in 730,000, according to the US Geological Survey. It last erupted 174,000 years ago.
However, in the unlikely case, the supervolcano was to erupt - with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs - it would cause massive destruction in the US, along with other devastating natural phenomenons, including acid rain.
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