The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes known as the Yellowstone supervolcano, ... up to 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. ...

The size of Yellowstone Caldera is about 55 miles long and close to 25 miles wide. The word "caldera" basically refers to an enormous crater. It's the largest volcanic vent in North America.

When the Yellowstone supervolcano last erupted cataclysmically 640,000 years ago, it formed the Yellowstone Caldera, a 30 by 50 mile crater. Smaller, non-explosive eruptions have happened since ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano has erupted at least 10 times over the past 16 million years, according to LiveScience.. With the additional two supereruptions, there are now six that have occurred ...

The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has substantially more magma reservoir under the caldera than scientists previously thought, according to new research. In addition, the newly found ...

It’s some explosive news in the geologic community. Researchers discovered two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone caldera, they announced in a study published June 1. The more recent of… ...

This was the size of the eruption that formed Yellowstone caldera, and it is equivalent to 400 million Olympic swimming pools, 400,000 Great Pyramids of Giza, and one-quarter of the volume of the ...

But Yellowstone's rhyolitic stores are still surprisingly small. Theoretically, they could power an eruption the size of Yellowstone's smallest caldera-forming eruption, ...

In Yellowstone National Park, in the northwest corner of Wyoming, lies the Yellowstone caldera, one of the most famous supervolcanoes on Earth. The supervolcano's last eruption was 631,000 years ago.

However, there are no signs of "increased volcanic unrest" at the park. The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has substantially more magma reservoir under the caldera than scientists ...