It's common knowledge that Yellowstone Park sits on top of an ancient supervolcano, but what happened last time it erupted?
How do volcanologists determine the height of eruptive plumes from Yellowstone’s past explosive eruptions? Ironically, you ...
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.
Recent earthquakes in Montana have sparked speculation about the Yellowstone supervolcano. Could these tremors signal future ...
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 ...