No this isn’t an April Fools — it’s August, not April, for one thing. And it isn’t fake news.

Authorities are admitting a “swarm” of earthquakes — more than 1,000 in all — were recorded throughout Yellowstone National Park last month, completing yet another part of our apocalypse bingo board, it would seem.

According to the Idaho Statesman, geologists reviewing the data called July 2021 a “doozy” of a month geologically.

On July 29th, a shallow yet very strong 8.2 magnitude earthquake — the strongest quake recorded in more than 50 years — hit near Perryville, Alaska.

Also last month, it came out that the science community is divided over predictions for Solar Cycle 25, and that it may end up being one of the strongest solar cycles on record, since scientific record keeping of solar activity began. And on July 3rd, an X-class flare — the strongest class of solar flare — was recorded.

Then there’s also the recent surge of unexplained dead bird sightings all over the US, the 6.0 earthquake that struck California in July (near San Francisco, no less), and the recent news that the International Space Station almost spiraled out of control the other day, and could have even broken apart if the error had not been spotted in time.

Interesting summer so far, to say the least. Hopefully it ends softly.