A series of shakes in the southwest have people online shuddering over the specter of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
and creating countless viral videos on social media. That followed a 6.4 temblor on the 4th of July that initially heightened tensions.
It's exceedingly rare in the region for a major earthquake to be followed by an even stronger one just a few days later. In this case,And yet a funny thing happened when word of the 7.1 shaker spread online Friday evening. According to Google Trends, there was a spike in search interest related to another geologically active area: the Yellowstone caldera that's home to a dormant supervolcano.
If you're online much at all, you'll know that the specter of a catastrophic Yellowstone eruption is popular fodder for paranoia-driven tabloid click-bait. As if on cue, a tabloid story appeared with aAlthough the article goes on to basically debunk its own provocative premise, it still fueled plenty of chatter on social media connecting the quakes to an imminent eruption.
California just had a major earthquake and is long due to have an even bigger earthquake which could trigger Yellowstone and obliterate all of North America and end the world
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