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Hundreds Of Earthquakes Have Yellowstone Trembling

Recent Yellowstone Earthquakes Are Centered Under the Ancient Yellowstone Supervolcano’s Caldera

It is not unusual for there to be small earthquakes in the Yellowstone Park area, however the recent spate of Yellowstone earthquakes are different. The University of Utah publishes a map of recent Yellowstone earthquakes online. The map currently shows 146 earthquakes in the Yellowstone National Park area within the last week, most of them underneath the ancient Yellowstone volcano. Many of them over 3.0 on the Richter scale and the strongest reaching a 3.9 reading. For reference, an earthquake with a strength of 4.0 is capable of causing moderate damage.

Yellowstone Earthquakes centered under Yellowstone Volcano

These Yellowstone earthquakes are not powerful, but there are a lot of them occurring in a very short period of time. Yellowstone National Park is the home of the Old Faithful Geyser which derives its heat from a shallow, five to ten mile deep pool of magma that lies below Yellowstone. The Yellowstone caldera is, in fact, the remnants of a very large volcanic event that occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago. The area is still very geologically active and, according to the University of Utah’s earthquake center, is the site of 1000-2000 small earthquakes every year, but they say, this week’s activity is much higher than average.

Yellowstone Supervolcano is Largest Volcano in the US

Rocky Mountain News

E.W. Scripps Co. last month put the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News on the sales block, saying it would evaluate offers for the newspaper only through January before examining other options.

“The decision to seek a buyer for the Rocky would have been unthinkable until very recently,” said Rich Boehne, president and chief executive officer of Scripps, “but the operating conditions have become increasingly difficult in Denver.”

The News (daily, 210,000; Saturday, 457,000) is printed and distributed by the Denver Newspaper Agency, a joint operating agreement equally owned by Scripps and MediaNews Group, which owns The Denver Post. The News publishes Monday through Saturday.

Denver Post Publisher and MediaNews Group Chief Executive Officer William Dean Singleton said in a memo that Scripps executives contacted him in mid-November to notify him that they planned to close the News “as soon as practical.”

Under terms of the JOA, MediaNews has the right of first refusal on any bid offered to buy the News. But Singleton also said in a published report that if MediaNews purchased the paper it has no intention to continue publishing its rival.

“I don’t believe anybody thinks the Rocky can be sold,” he told The Post.

Boehne said the 50 percent share of the cash flow generated by the DNA “is no longer enough to support the Rocky, leaving us with no choice but to seek an exit.”

If the News does fold, it would be the largest-circulation daily to close its doors since The Houston Post shuttered operations in 1995.