Yellowstone National Park News: Sky News reported that 'Rangers have been forced to say there is no evidence Yellowstone's supervolcano is about to blow, after a YouTube video of a herd of bison dashing through the park sparked fears of an imminent eruption.'
Speculations on herd of bison that left the park stated that the animals sensed volcanic activity beneath the park's caldera. It was flickered by a video filmed by Leo Leckie, who has been visiting the Yellowstone for two decades already.
Nearly 150,000 people have watched the video since it was posted.
The internet rumours gathered pace when a 4.8-magnitude earthquake - the largest to hit the area in more than 30 years - was recorded weeks after the video was shot.
"We have heard about some pretty wild rumours - including one concerning the animals," Al Nash, a spokesman for Yellowstone National Park, said.
"We do have bison, elk and other animals that have moved outside the park recently, but they're doing that because we're in the depths of winter and food is a little hard to find in places.
"At this time of year, they tend to migrate to lower elevations where they think there might be something to eat that's easier to get at.
"When the snow melts off and things start to green up, those very same animals will walk right back into the park."
There has been raise in earthquake activity around Yellowstone's caldera according to the US Geological Service (USGS).
According to Sky News, 'the supervolcano last exploded into life 70,000 years ago and an eruption is likely to deposit huge quantities of ash across much of the country.
Yellowstone lies in the middle of the North American plate - one of several which make the so-called 'ring of fire', which stretches around the Pacific Ocean.'
Recent tremors in Chile and Los Angeles are feared to be a pre cursor for the massive earthquake that the scientists have long been predicting since the two areas are part of the horseshoe-shaped boundary. However, according to Mr Nash, there were "no signs" tectonic activity was about to cause Yellowstone's volcano to erupt.
"We see between 1,000 and 3,000 earthquakes a year in Yellowstone and most of them are so small no one ever feels them," he said.
"We've had this recent earthquake near the Norris geyser basin, but there were no injuries or damage and ... it's just part of the geology of Yellowstone."
