A swarm of tremors have hit Yellowstone in the past few months, and as of August 30, there have been a total of 2,357 quakes to hit the national park in Wyoming since the beginning of June.
The most powerful of the swarm came on June 15, when a strong magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit the picturesque park.
The strongest in recent weeks was a magnitude 3.3 which struck on August 21.
The majority of the earthquakes have been a magnitude one, but 181 were a magnitude two and a further 11 were a magnitude three.
Typically, when there are tremors around a volcano, it is a sign the magma is recharging and could lead to an explosion.
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However, officials have moved to calm nerves, with the US Geological Survey not raising the alert level as it remains at ‘normal’.
Jamie Farrell, a research professor at the University of Utah, which is involved in monitoring seismic activity at Yellowstone also quashed fears, telling Newsweek that the swarm was “nothing out of the ordinary”.
He added that the earthquakes had “slowed down significantly but does occasionally have little bursts of activity that lasts for a few hours.”
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago but a spike in seismic activity around the national park has unsettled nerves.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt it would kill an estimated 87,000 people immediately and make two-thirds of the USA immediately uninhabitable.
The as the large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a “nuclear winter”.
The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington’s Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.
Additionally, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.