#0338 – ‘The Year the World Ends’: Netizens Shaken as Idaho Earthquake Sparks Fears of Yellowstone Erupting

Tourists view the Morning Glory hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming (File)

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.

 

 

Translate »