{"id":718,"date":"2009-01-06T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=718"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:10:22","slug":"the-big-belch-at-yellowstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/06\/the-big-belch-at-yellowstone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Belch at Yellowstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor has written an entertaining piece (search <em><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.uiowa.edu\/accesswn\">Access World News<\/a><\/em>\u2014U.S. Newspapers for \u201cKeillor\u201d and \u201cYellowstone\u201d) about the more than 250 earthquakes that have occurred in Yellowstone National Park during the past several days recommending that, if this is the Big One, the view would be safer from a distance\u2014say, Paris.\u00a0 Although Yellowstone is an active volcano with minor tremors a common occurrence, the recent cluster of larger earthquakes is uncommon. If the Big Belch occurs, something like a nuclear winter could impact a good portion of the U.S. including Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/govpubs\/\">Government Publications\u00a0collection <\/a>is a good resource for information about Yellowstone including the <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.access.gpo.gov\/GPO\/LPS11481\">wolf reintroduction program<\/a>;\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.access.gpo.gov\/GPO\/LPS80603\">bison-cattle war<\/a>; forest recovery from wildfires and fire ecology (Gov. Pubs. I 29.2:Y 3\/16); the history of Yellowstone (Gov. Pubs. I 29.9\/5:150); river rafter\u2019s guides (Gov. Pubs. I 53.7\/2:Y 3\/6); maps (many!);\u00a0 and, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.access.gpo.gov\/GPO\/LPS60103\">geosciences studies of the world\u2019s greatest boiling-hot geyser<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor has written an entertaining piece (search Access World News\u2014U.S. Newspapers for \u201cKeillor\u201d and \u201cYellowstone\u201d) about the more than 250 earthquakes that have occurred in Yellowstone National Park during the past several days recommending that, if this is the Big One, the view would be safer from a distance\u2014say, Paris.\u00a0 Although Yellowstone is an<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/06\/the-big-belch-at-yellowstone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Big Belch at Yellowstone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}