Earthquakes continue to rumble in Yellowstone National Park. Over the past two weeks about 100 small earthquakes a day have scientists scratching their chins.
Though scientists say that the quakes are more a curiosity than a cause for alarm and are not an indication of a bigger quake to come. However, they are closely monitoring and analyzing the data from the quake zone, which is about ten miles northwest of the Old Faithful geyser in an isolated area not near any road or community.
From January 17 through Sunday, January 31, 1,608 earthquakes had been recorded. As earthquake clusters go, this current cluster is second to the 1985 cluster when 3,000 quakes were recorded over three months.
Since the Haiti earthquake, interest in earthquakes has peaked, says the U.S. Geological Survey, with visits to their Earthquake Hazards Program website increasing five times since the quake, to more than one million visits per day.
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