Natural Disaster: 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Montana , Raising Supervolcano Concerns
wsweek - June 6
Early Thursday morning, residents of southern
Montana
feared the worst when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the region. Though
its epicenter was only 230 miles from Yellowstone ,
the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says the seismic activity was
not irregular, and the supervolcano is not expected to erupt anytime soon.
"The location and focal mechanism
solution of this earthquake are consistent with right-lateral faulting in
association with faults of the Lewis and Clark line, a prominent zone of strike-slip,
dip slip and oblique slip faulting trending east-southeast from northern Idaho
to east of Helena, Montana, southeast of this earthquake," said the USGS.
Nevertheless, people were concerned.
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