Category Archives: Yellowstone Volcano

What You Need to Survive a Supervolcano

Posted on August 9, 2011 by admin

[Translate] (by Mike Mullin) My debut novel, Ashfall, is about a fifteen-year-old struggling to survive and find his family in the wake of a cataclysmic natural disaster: the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. To make Ashfall realistic, I had to … Continue reading →

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The World’s 6 Known SuperVolcanoes

Posted on June 18, 2011 by admin

[Translate] Of course everyone knows about Yellowstone but not many realize that there are two more Super Volcanoes in the US; the Long Valley caldera, in east-central California and the Valles caldera in the middle of northern New Mexico, west … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone volcano plume bigger than previous estimates

Posted on April 14, 2011 by admin

[Translate] University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is even bigger than it … Continue reading →

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Could Yellowstone National Park’s caldera super-volcano be close to eruption?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by admin

[Translate] The following article is pretty much a re-hash of the recent National Geographic article published on January 19, 2011. However, this article was well worth posting because of the map, courtesy of the USGS: Robert B. Smith, professor of … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells

Posted on January 20, 2011 by admin

[Translate] The latest news on Yellowstone from a very reliable source: (by Brian Handwerk) Yellowstone National Park’s supervolcano just took a deep “breath,” causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report. The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions—each a … Continue reading →

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