Yellowstone had massive eruptions 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago, as well as several smaller ones. An eruption in the near future would fit the timeline.

While volcanic eruptions are unlikely, Yellowstone remains at risk of earthquakes due to its location on the Intermountain Seismic Belt, a zone of high seismic activity. Only last week ...

It is thought that, were Yellowstone to erupt, the initial blast would release ... then push even more material out of the magma storage zone.' Although the lava would be a deadly hazard, the ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

Recently, rumors have been swelling of a danger at Yellowstone National Park. That danger? A brewing supervolcano eruption. The fear of a Yellowstone supereruption, which ultimately went viral ...

The last three super-eruptions have been in Yellowstone itself. The most recent, 640,000 years ago, was a thousand times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, which killed 57 people ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Jamie Farrell, associate research ...