Deep within the Yellowstone Caldera, the bowl-shaped rock cauldron at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, there’s a clue ...

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

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly ... six times in 2024 compared to 32 in 2018 (the year that the current episode of activity began), 48 each in 2019 and 2020, 20 in 2021, 11 in 2022 ...

Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National Park ... Since its formation, the caldera has seen relatively limited volcanic activity. The most recent rhyolitic lava flows occurred ...

But they have pointed out that the area where such activity is likely to occur has shifted ... It now appears to be shifting to the northeast of the Yellowstone Caldera. For the past 160,000 or so ...

That movement has now left one pool of molten material on the west of the caldera disconnected from any heat sources, which will likely allow it to cool. Meanwhile, the largest pool of near-surface ...

Yellowstone National Park ... The new study suggests that the center of magma activity might be migrating northeast within the caldera, away from its current location in the park's western region.