Will Yellowstone Erupt Soon and Kill Us All? – Scientific American

I get asked about Yellowstone at least a few times a month. It’s almost never a question about the gorgeous geysers, hot springs, mud pots, or other hydrothermal features. People don’t even ask me where the Yellowstone hotspot was hanging out before it got to Wyoming (I’m going to tell you about it in an upcoming post, though!). The questions I get most frequently about America’s most famous volcanic National Park are these:

1. Is Yellowstone going to erupt soon?

2. When it does, will it destroy civilization?

Those questions honestly make me sad, because there’s so much exciting stuff…