An alarmist YouTube video-gone-viral purporting to show bison “fleeing” Yellowstone National Park has caused some to claim that wild animals are sensing an imminent eruption of the super-volcano sleeping beneath a large area of the park. The park has been deluged with anxious callers.

The video screams the urgent message, “ALERT! Yellowstone Buffalo Running for Their Lives!”

But park officials say there’s absolutely no indications of an imminent eruption from the Yellowstone caldera.

The video shows what park officials and other knowledgeable folk point out are bison, not ‘buffalo,’ cantering down a paved road in Yellowstone. The animals are neither “running” nor headed out of the park. They’re loping along a road leading into the park.

“It was a spring-like day and they were frisky,” said park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said in a report by the Christian Science Monitor. “Contrary to online reports, it’s a natural occurrence and not the end of the world.”

The video gained traction just a few days after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Yellowstone’s northwest corner. Although it was the strongest earthquake in some years, it’s still only one of many that rattle the park each year.

“There is no imminent danger,” Yellowstone National Park spokesman Al Nash told KRTV News. “Yellowstone is a geologically active place, we get between 1,000 and 3,000 earthquakes a year.” Most of them, he said, are so small they’re imperceptible to people or wildlife.

There’s another reason the park’s 4,600 head of bison would be on the move, Nash told the Monitor, and that’s their annual migration. In winter, the bison naturally move away from Yellowstone to lower-elevation areas in search of food. When the snow melts in late spring, they return. That’s likely what the video actually shows, he added.

This isn’t the first time people have gotten worked up over what they think is a sign that Yellowstone’s super-volcano is about to explode.

“This is one of the best-monitored locations on the face of the Earth,” Nash said. “With the enormous array of seismographs, GPS units, and borehole strain meters producing a constant flow of data, it’s inevitable that some instrument will occasionally throw a spike once in awhile.”

Nash invited people to learn more about the geology of Yellowstone National Park on its website.