Not Good, Not Good

This is really not good news:

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Sixteen small earthquakes with magnitudes up to 2.7 shook Yellowstone National Park last week.

The quakes began Monday, just before midnight, and continued until Wednesday.

Bob Smith, a University of Utah professor, says the quakes occurred on the southern edge of a volcano caldera at the center of Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is one of the few "super volcanos" known worldwide, and to have a swarm of minor quakes there indicates things are moving underneath, that magma is moving, that the volcanos' magma chamber is stirring.

The last thing we all want is for a super volcano to erupt... anywhere on earth. It would make nuclear winter seem like a lazy fall afternoon.

Not good, not good.