The Yellowstone supervolcano, located beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, is one of the most powerful volcanic ...

Yellowstone National Park, known for erupting geysers like Old Faithful, is home to one of earth’s largest volcanic systems, with the capacity to wreak havoc on an entire continent — and components of ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

The greatest supervolcano on Earth, a geological giant with enormous destructive potential and an unmatched promise for ...

The Yellowstone Caldera ... has shown that the super-volcano has experienced three major caldera-forming eruptions in the past 2.1 million years—with the most recent lava flow being ...

The giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park is cooling off in the west but staying hot in the northeast.

Magmatic activity ... northeastern Yellowstone. This is equivalent to the volume of magma released roughly 1.3 million years ago during the Mesa Falls eruption—the second most recent caldera ...

Yellowstone National Park is noted for the geothermal marvels, but it is the threat below ground that holds the attention.

Yellowstone ... volcanic systems in the world. Past volcanic activity at the caldera has ranged from the output of lava flows ...

One is basaltic magma, which triggers most volcanic activity on Earth. It erupts more easily because it has a lower resistance to flow, but underneath Yellowstone, it’s dense and buried deep in ...

“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, a volcano geophysicist ... to the U.S. Geological Survey. The most recent one was 640,000 years ago.

Yellowstone caldera is one of the largest volcanic systems in the world. Past volcanic activity at the caldera ... was over 70,000 years ago. In a recent study, USGS investigators with ...