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Hot bubbling magma discovered under New England states

scientists say

scientists at Rutgers University have discovered a massive body of magma rising underneath part of New England

using the National Science

Foundation's earth scope program the researchers examined 2 years worth of seismic data measured by

thousands of seismic measurement devices

46.6 miles apart across the continental United States

according to the NSF the earth scope program seeks to reveal the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the

processes that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Rutgers Today reported last month

The program helped scientists detect and infer more about the previously documented area of warmth under New England

The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon

And we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under new england lead author vadim levin told

rutgers today

levin refers to seismic waves as vibrations that pass through our planet following earthquakes he told Rutgers today that

understanding seismic waves means

Understanding more about Earth's interior

They reveal the shapes of objects changes in the state of materials and clues about their texture

Under which states is the magma located the new found magma is under parts of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire

Should New England residents panic?

according to the Rutgers

researchers residents living above the magma those in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire

Don't need to panic or evacuate it will likely take millions of years for the upwelling to get where it's going

Levin said and if and when volcanoes do appear in New England the eruption won't be as devastating as the devastation

scientists expect from the Yellowstone supervolcano

It is not Yellowstone National Park like but it's a distant relative in the sense that something

Relatively small no more than a couple hundred miles across is happening Levin said

But the next step Levin said is to understand how exactly this upwelling underneath New England is happening