Yellowstone volcano eruption: Earthquakes hit supervolcano as BIGGEST geyser BLOWS
Experts at Yellowstone National Park claim to have seen the Steamboat Geyser erupt on the evening of Thursday, March 15.
The activity has sparked fears among volcano watchers amid concerns the supervolcano, located about 15 miles south of the geyser, is due to erupt.
Jacob Lowenstern, former scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, told the Casper Star and Tribune: “As you get hotter and hotter and deeper and deeper, the permeability and ability of water to move around shuts off. There’s not a whole lot of connectivity of the reservoirs once you get deep.”
But to make the situation even more terrifying, there has been 11 earthquakes in the region since the geysers blew – more evidence of the subsurface action in the magma pits.