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Reply to comment by awidden in New Estimate Finds More Magma Under Yellowstone Supervolcano - The extra magma doesn’t mean it’s more likely to erupt, scientists say. In fact, the better measurement helps them to understand its future by GeoGeoGeoGeo
They used a new modeling technique with a supercomputer to analyze 20 years of continuous background seismic data to produce the most accurate ‘estimate’ of the magma reservoir ever produced. It’s an estimate because the resolution still isn’t perfect, and it’s an extremely complicated magmatic system. To definitively calculate something, you need to have definitive boundary conditions and that is pretty much impossible with something so huge and complex.
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