According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Idaho recorded two serious seismic shocks of 4.3 and 5.3 on the Richter scale, followed by whiter afteshocks with a strength of just under 4. Local residents reported that this earthquake was quite tangible, although it did not cause them any trouble.
The epicenter of these tremors, as established by seismologists, was at a depth of about ten kilometers, twenty miles east of Sod Springs, no destruction or tragedy has yet been recorded. And it seems like you can not worry about anything.
However, this earthquake caused alarm among experts in connection with the Yellowstone supervolcano. The fact is that from its caldera to Sod Springs, where the current tremors occurred, only two hundred kilometers. Therefore, seismologists have a well-founded suspicion that the earthquake in Idaho is directly related to the processes taking place in the caldera of the Yellowstone volcano, which continues to keep the Americans in suspense.
Scientists in the United States still do not know how to solve this problem. Few experts are satisfied with NASA's recent proposals to cool the supervolcano with water, since such an intervention could lead to the opposite effect. At the same time, the world community continues to watch the development of events near Yellowstone from the sidelines, as if their unpredictable giant volcano does not touch …