Will the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt in your lifetime?

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I've always been interested in geology and I've taken about a half-dozen courses, but most of them -- as well as most of my field rips -- have been in places like the Colorado Plateau, which is very stable Jurassic and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. Studying igneous formations/volcanoes is something new to me.
When Dawn and I retired to Idaho last summer, the first thing we did was to sign up for a 6-week course in the geology of southern Idaho, which is predominately igneous rocks. Most of our area is covered with lava from past eruptions, and is the same formations that have moved east to Wyoming (Yellowstone is partly in Idaho).
This semester I enrolled in an upper-level Field Geology course at the College of Southern Idaho, which will almost surely involve a three- or four-day class trip to Yellowstone. I'm hoping I can get a better handle on the geology here; it's an absolutely fantastic opportunity.

That sounds brilliant - I hope you get that Yellowstone trip!
 
A big Yellowstone outbreak is not very likely to happen in our lifetime. But I live in Europe and there are concerns about volcano outbreaks in Germany and Italy. It might not happen the next 10 years but there is the phlegraean fields that show more and more activity.

That huge volcano buried under a glacier in iceland is by far the biggest risk, If it blows most air travel across Europe would be grounded like it was when a much smaller icelandic volcano erupted a few years ago. And the experts think it also has millions and millions of tons of C02 trapped within it as well. Nasty Quake in Greece / turkey earlier today.
 
If you want a potential geological disaster to worry about, worry about the New Madrid Fault. That one is more likely to act up in our lifetime and could cause widespread devastation in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
The New Madrid quake in 1812 rang church bells over 1,000 miles away and had aftershocks that lasted for five years.
 
If you want a potential geological disaster to worry about, worry about the New Madrid Fault. That one is more likely to act up in our lifetime and could cause widespread devastation in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
The New Madrid quake in 1812 rang church bells over 1,000 miles away and had aftershocks that lasted for five years.

And for a while the Mississippi also ran backwards, plus the sand geysers etc.
 
A crack has opened up at the Yellowstone Volcano area . An ongoing volcano eruption in Mexico . An ongoing eruption in Sicely . An ongoing eruption on a Iland about 1000 miles from Australia . There could be more but I have found no one putting all this together . --- All my information came from You Tube , not the Government censored outlets .
 
There were 3 eruptions in 2 weeks just recently. Don’t forget the Tonga eruption. According to Adapt 2030, it is the changing electromagnetic pulse causing these…and they are increasing.

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Naturally all this debris put into the upper atmosphere affects our growing crops! Dubyne projected that the southern hemisphere would be affected this year. He was right.
 
"Yellowstone is one of the most seismically active areas in the United States. Approximately 700 to 3,000 earthquakes occur each year in the Yellowstone area; most are not felt. They result from the extensive network of faults associated with the volcano and surrounding tectonic features. Yellowstone earthquakes tend to occur in swarms—close together in time and space. This phenomenon is related to transport of volcanic fluids along the many small fractures in the shallow rocks over the magma, a pattern that has been noted in volcanos around the world.
Earthquakes occur along fractures in the crust where stress from crustal plate movement and volcanic activity build to a significant level. The rock along these faults becomes so strained that eventually it slips or breaks. Energy is then released as shock waves (seismic waves) that reverberate throughout the surrounding rock. Once a seismic wave reaches the surface of the Earth, it may be felt. Surface waves affect the ground, which can roll, crack open, or be vertically and/or laterally displaced. Structures are susceptible to earthquake damage because the ground motion is dominantly horizontal.
In Yellowstone, earthquakes help to maintain hydrothermal activity by keeping the “plumbing” system open. Without periodic disturbance from relatively small earthquakes, the small fractures and conduits that supply hot water to geysers and hot springs might be sealed by mineral deposition. Some earthquakes generate changes in Yellowstone’s hydrothermal systems. For example, the 1959 Hebgen Lake (7.3 M) and 1983 Borah Peak (6.9 M) earthquakes caused measurable changes in Old Faithful Geyser and other hydrothermal features.
Yellowstone commonly experiences “earthquake swarms”—a series of earthquakes over a short period of time in a localized area. The largest swarm occurred in 1985, with more than 3,000 earthquakes recorded during three months on the northwest side of the park. Hundreds of quakes were recorded during swarms in 2009 near Lake Village and 2010 between Old Faithful area and West Yellowstone. Scientists posit these swarms are due to shifting and changing pressures in the Earth’s crust that are caused by migration of hydrothermal fluids, a natural occurrence of volcanoes."
 

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