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user-inactivated  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Two huge magma chambers spied beneath Yellowstone National Park

Wow.

I would also like to point out how ridiculous this line is:

    The discovery does not, on its own, increase the chance of an eruption




b_b  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Terrible writing. I assume what he meant is that it doesn't automatically change seismologists' calculus when estimating the odds of an eruption.

user-inactivated  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would guess substituting <discovered magma pool> for <discovery> fixes the sentence. But really.

Pez  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I believe you're correct. I don't know much about volcanoes but I think the shallow chamber he mentioned is the part that is closest to the surface of the volcano. So when it empties we have an eruption. These two additional chambers just mean that the volcano has more magma than previously thought.