AI Identified 86,000 More Yellowstone Earthquakes Than We Previously Knew About

July 22, 2025

Yellowstone National Park is not a calm place. Bubbling away beneath the surface those many tourists walk upon is a deep well of violence. A recent study used AI technology to see just how violent it is and showed that it’s even less calm than we thought. The caldera beneath the vast swathe of land created 10 times more earthquakes in the years between 2008 to 2022 than we were able to record using more older methods.

The study, titled “Long-term dynamics of earthquake swarms in the Yellowstone caldera,” and published in the journal Science Advances, found that there were over 86,000 earthquakes in that time in the Yellowstone Caldera region. The Inertia