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A series of earthquakes in Yellowstone has a theory being floated that it could be the predecessor to a much larger event, a huge eruption that would be felt by as much as half the population of the United States! Out to sea it was real life panic for two divers that were in a cage filming underwater when a great white shark attack is felt as the animal batters its way inside the cage. The video clip earns the two brave divers (both escaped injury) all sorts of year end accolades and a trip to the NBC Today show.

Yellowstone Earthquakes, Eruption?

See that amazing video here complete with a dramatic tease from NBC hostess Ann Curry. Back to Yellowstone, a report from Live Science will put a creepy feeling down the back of many of our favorite doom and gloom crowd that inhabit the planet. A whole bunch of small earthquakes have hit Yellowstone and it has scientists puzzled.


The park has thousands of earthquakes each year but these have researchers concerned and the report notes that they have long predicted that the Yellowstone supervolcano will eventually erupt again. Unfortunately some of the predictions claim that if that happens it will be more than just a regional it would have "devastating consequences for much of the United States."

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The report notes that even though the same researchers suggest that no eruption is immanent if it does happen. Check the full story here. "Half the country could be covered in ash up to 3 feet deep. Should you be worried? Consider this, "Yellowstone seems to blow its top about every 600,000 years."