The Night the Mountain Fell

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🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Yellowstone Supervolcano snores through the geysers and mud pots, and restlessly tumbles as multiple earthquakes hit the region nearly every day. We don't hear a lot about Yellowstone earthquakes, but each year one to three thousand hit the park and surrounding area. Most can't even be felt, but there have already been four this year in the lower-3.0 magnitude range. Enough to shake pots and pans on the wall. And a 4.4 hit to the west of Yellowstone just a couple days before this recording—right near the center of the biggest Yellowstone earthquake in recent history, a 7.5. Today on America's National Parks, The Night The Mountain Fell — the story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake of 1959, as told in the book with the same name by Edmund Christopherson.

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0:00.0	The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean.
0:15.0	This year, L.L.Bine is joining up with the National Park Foundation,
0:20.0	the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks, including historic and cultural sites,
0:32.6	monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores
0:35.9	that dot the American landscape,
0:38.2	many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.
0:41.2	L.L. Bean is proud to be an official partner of the National Park Foundation.
0:47.0	Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. Much hay has been made over the geological turmoil that hibernates beneath the surface in Yellowstone National Park.
1:10.0	The Yellowstone Supervolcano snores through the geysers in mudpots and restlessly
1:16.3	tumbles as multiple earthquakes hit the region every day.
1:21.7	That was news to me. We don't hear a lot about Yellowstone earthquakes, but each year
1:26.5	one to three thousand hit the park in surrounding area. There were 15 on March 28th alone.
1:34.0	Most can't even be felt, just a needle moving on a seismograph.
1:38.0	But there have already been four this year in the lower 3.0 magnitude range, enough to shake pots and pans on the wall.
1:46.0	And a 4.4 hit to the west of Yellowstone just a couple of days before this recording.
1:52.0	Right near the center of the biggest Yellowstone. a 7.5.5. Which is the
1:53.0	near the center of the biggest Yellowstone earthquake in
1:56.0	recent history. A 7.5, which is the subject of today's
2:01.5	episode.
2:04.1	I'm Jason Epperson, and today on America's National Parks
2:08.0	the Night the Mountain Fell,
2:10.2	the story of the Montana Yellowstone Earthquake of 1959,
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