We know it's there, we know it's a ticking timebomb, as are all volcanoes and faults zones. Live with it, we're just here for the ride!!! Enjoy life and don't fret about that which you have NO control!! Don't worry, be happy!!

Yeah, it's interesting. I've been worried about it myself since I visited Yellowstone twice in my life, and was surprised the second time, to find a lot of very unusual changes.

Even "old reliable" was becoming less reliable.

But it wasn't until years later that I found out that my observations WERE that unusual. Fences and guide paths through some features, which appeared to have been in place for decades, had been overrun by new thermal features. I didn't immediately register the tilting of the lake, even though I saw that the fence at one end had been flooded. I assumed at the time, that this was due to excessive snow melting in the surrounding mountains. Again, it wasn't until I read about the discovery of the magma bubble under the lake, that I understood what was going on.

Absolutely, if that thing blows, it wont be fun for anyone.

One minor thing: it's not really accurate to suggest that the Supervolcano goes up with any predictable regularity. The theory I have read about so far, suggests that the volcano is due to a "hot spot" which is moving relative to the North American tectonic plate. Since what ends up above the hot spot varies, and since the amount of motion is not steady, there's no way to predict anything.

Yesterday, Wed, 6/3/15
On YouTube by Mary Greenly

Yellowstone Supervolcano Report More Earthquakes Magma Intrusion

Perhaps you folks should watch the 2005 TV movie Supervolcano, which is a fictional account of the Yellowstone volcano erupting during modern times.

I watched the movie when it was shown on American TV.
At the end of the movie, American journalist Tom Brokaw presented a short, real documentary about the Yellowstone volcano.

The real documentary reveals that the North American lithosphere (tectonic plate) has been sliding over the Yellowstone hot spot in a southwest direction. As a result, the Yellowstone hot spot is slowly being covered by thicker and thicker portions of the lithosphere.

Your information is out of date.

http://www.weather.com/science/nature/news/yellowstone-national-park-supervolcano-largest-magma-reservoir-discovery

The newly discovered magma chamber under yellowstone could fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over.

Uh, the movement of the North American lithosphere is separate from the make up of the Yellowstone hot spot.

Uh, I guess geology wasn't your strong suit. The new finding of the HUGE magma chamber is DIRECTLY UNDER YELLOWSTONE. The fact that the lithosphere moves over a hot spot DEFINES where the hot spot is located and is, in no way, separate from the makeup of the Yellowstone hot spot. The convective flow can move with the hot spot and, in this case, probably did since the HUGE magma chamber is still under Yellowstone.

Uh, I guess geology wasn't your strong suit. The new finding of the HUGE magma chamber is DIRECTLY UNDER YELLOWSTONE. The fact that the lithosphere moves over a hot spot DEFINES where the hot spot is located and is, in no way, separate from the makeup of the Yellowstone hot spot. The convective flow can move with the hot spot and, in this case, probably did since the HUGE magma chamber is still under Yellowstone.

All I said was that that the North American lithosphere is slowly moving in a southwest direction, which will result in thicker crust covering the Yellowstone hot spot.

The Yellowstone hot spot is stationary.

... as you indicated by the moving hot spot ...

The Yellowstone hot spot isn't what is moving.

April 23, 2015 - University of Utah seismologists discovered and made images of a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock 12 to 28 miles beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and it is 4.4 times larger than the shallower, long-known magma chamber.

The hot rock in the newly discovered, deeper magma reservoir would fill the 1,000-cubic-mile Grand Canyon 11.2 times, while the previously known magma chamber would fill the Grand Canyon 2.5 times, says postdoctoral researcher Jamie Farrell, a co-author of the study published online today in the journal Science.

"For the first time, we have imaged the continuous volcanic plumbing system under Yellowstone," says first author Hsin-Hua Huang, also a postdoctoral researcher in geology and geophysics. "That includes the upper crustal magma chamber we have seen previously plus a lower crustal magma reservoir that has never been imaged before and that connects the upper chamber to the Yellowstone hotspot plume below."

Contrary to popular perception, the magma chamber and magma reservoir are not full of molten rock. Instead, the rock is hot, mostly solid and spongelike, with pockets of molten rock within it. Huang says the new study indicates the upper magma chamber averages about 9 percent molten rock - consistent with earlier estimates of 5 percent to 15 percent melt - and the lower magma reservoir is about 2 percent melt.

So there is about one-quarter of a Grand Canyon worth of molten rock within the much larger volumes of either the magma chamber or the magma reservoir, Farrell says.

The researchers emphasize that Yellowstone's plumbing system is no larger -�� nor closer to erupting -�� than before, only that they now have used advanced techniques to make a complete image of the system that carries hot and partly molten rock upward from the top of the Yellowstone hotspot plume - about 40 miles beneath the surface - to the magma reservoir and the magma chamber above it.

"The magma chamber and reservoir are not getting any bigger than they have been, it's just that we can see them better now using new techniques," Farrell says.

I believe that there has been a misunderstanding about what has recently been reported about the Yellowstone volcano.

The following is an excerpt from a University of Utah report titled "Scientists see deeper Yellowstone magma".



Bob Christiansen is a retired U.S. Geological Survey scientist who pioneered research on the Yellowstone volcano in the 1960s.
According to an August 2009 article in National Geographic magazine, Christiansen "... suspects the supervolcano may be safely bottled up.
For most of its history, the Yellowstone hot spot has formed calderas in the thin crust
of the Basin and Range area of the American West. Now the hot spot is lodged beneath
a much thicker crust at the crest of the Rockies. "I think that the system has more or less equilibrated itself," says Christian­sen.
Then he quickly adds, "But that's an interpretation that would not stand up in court.""

If you want to get heavily into the scientific literature, then I suggest that you visit
the homepage of the University of Utah Seismology and Active Tectonics Research Group.