Many local children were sent away to relatives or friends in the wake of Wednesday's deadly quake, in which nearly 300 people died, while others remain in hospital.
One such event, a deadly quake that struck in 1959 in southern Montana just outside the northwestern corner of the park, affected a number of hydrothermal features in Yellowstone, including its iconic geyser, Old Faithful.
This gap in knowledge makes earthquake prediction a frustrating and chancy exercise, and complicates the effort to calculate the risk that a human construction like a water reservoir or a geothermal power plant could inadvertently set off a deadly quake.
When a 12-year-old earthquake victim named Elif Gunduz boards a plane for Israel on Sunday, she will become the latest symbol of how completely last August's severe and deadly quake has changed Turkey and reshaped its role in the world.
Indeed, geologists had identified Nepal's most vulnerable segment of fault just weeks before the recent deadly quake struck.
The deadly quake was thought to have occurred on the Dauki fault line, the junction of two pieces of the Indian tectonic plate, near what's known as the Shillong plateau.
