Supervolcano

Discover why Yellowstone's recent hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin sparked social media frenzy but rest assured, it's not a volcanic eruption.

The super-volcano in Yellowstone National Park is a lot of things. Yes, it's a volcano. It's a geological wonder. It's potentially an extinction level event. 16 years ago, it was also the star of a made-for-TV movie.

A recent post from a weird fact, Twitter account, has re-fanned the Yellowstone supervolcano flames

Yellowstone National Park has been shaking more than usual today. As of this writing, there have been 49 measurable earthquakes just south of Yellowstone Lake.

I must confess that I am a volcano nerd. I've been fascinated with them dating back to the Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980. My fascination with this part of geology led me to ask the question what would it really take to make the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt? This is what I found.

Steamboat Geyser recently erupted again in 2019 shattering the all-time record for most eruptions in a year.

This may be normal, but I've never seen or heard of it before. Here's video of a steam vent in Yellowstone Lake.

The Yellowstone supervolcano gets all the doomsday hype, but one scientist "rolls her eyes" at the mention of Yellowstone blowing its top.

Thanks to a bunch of savvy scientists, they have discovered a massive lake of molten carbon underneath Yellowstone. Second Nexus talked about the discovery by geologists Saswata Hier–Majumder of the University of London and Benoit Tauzin of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon...