On Tuesday Twitter erupted with users sharing videos of objects in their homes trembling as a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Southern Idaho in the United States. According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the quake struck 153 kilometres north-east of Boise, at a depth of 10 kilometres.
Twitter users have been hitting social media to vent their concerns after a preliminary magnitude 6.5 earthquake was registered on Tuesday night northeast of Boise, Idaho.
Amid the fears generated by the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, users were sarcastically wondering what else the year 2020 was about to spring on the world as “predictions” of a Yellowstone super-volcano eruption were reignited on social media in the aftermath of the tremors.
Seeing #Yellowstone trending and realizing its not a April fools joke. pic.twitter.com/YTKIxoVhz8
— Calvin and Snobbes (@SCDisme) April 1, 2020