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A Big, Hot Rock Bubbles Beneath Vermont

The graphic shows the seismic activity that is taking place about 100 miles below Vermont's surface.
Vadim Levin/Rutgers University-New Brunswick
The graphic shows the seismic activity that is taking place about 100 miles below Vermont's surface.

Vermont is seismically and geologically a very stable place, but new data gleaned from a vast array of seismic sensors has uncovered a massive hot rock located just beneath our surface.

Vadim Levin is a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University. He's been studying the big blob of rock slowly rising underneath us. He said it'll be about 50 million years or so before it's  expected to reach the Earth's surface.

Levin shared his findings with Vermont Edition.

Broadcast live on Monday, Jan. 8 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for Vermont Public. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning Vermont Public program Vermont Edition.
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