Yellowstone National Park is celebrating the start of 2024 with an earth-shaking party, recording a pair of earthquakes in the first week of the new year.

The latest was a 3.1-magnitude quake at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday with an epicenter was 18 miles east of West Yellowstone along the Nez Perce Creek close to the Lower Geyser Basin, at a depth of more than 6 miles. It was the latest in a series of quakes shaking things up at the beginning of 2024.

However, contrary to some doomsday prophesies, a swarm of earthquakes doesn’t indicate an imminent volcanic eruption.

In fact, it’s entirely detached from the Yellowstone supervolcano, just like most of the park’s seismic activity.

[And unlike Henny Penny ninnies in NYC who have nothing better to worry about, rational people realize earthquakes and climate change have nothing to do with each other. You’re welcome. ~ Beege]

I can't believe I have to say this but… Climate change does not cause earthquakes. https://t.co/u2dQKSII7c

— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) January 7, 2024