Yellowstone National Park at High Threat

Yellowstone National Park is one of the most amazing and explosive parks in the world. Established in 1872, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park is America’s first national park. Underneath the nature and wildlife of this geological park lies the largest known super volcano in the world. A caldera volcano that is over 2 million years old, measured over 80 kilometers long, 65 kilometers wide, hundreds of meters deep, and is 40,000 years overdue for eruption.
Scientists have determined that Yellowstone has erupted every 600,000 years. Since 1923, scientists have been observing the constant changes under the park. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century. Magma settles less then five miles underground in some spots. The entire park and miles past it are a hot spot for volcanic activity. The geysers, the steam vents, the mud pots, and the hot spots are in the thousands. And the hot spot is said to be spreading under the Rocky Mountains. 

Misaligned faults trigger hundreds of earthquakes that shake the park daily. Mysterious four-inch bulges appeared in the central Oregon region of the hot spots, and recent developments have prompted closure of sections of the Norris Geyser Basin due to rapid heating of the ground (over 200 degrees) and new steam vents and increased geyser activity. Yellowstone Lake temperatures have risen from 66 degrees to 85 degrees, seems as though the magma is recycling from the Earth’s upper crust not from deep below and has caused the Lake to rise over 100 feet. U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Liz Morgan states that the bulge is over two thousand feet long and has the potential to explode at any time. Several trails in the park have been closed due to boiling ground. One widely posted e-mail claimed the park contained a "dead zone" that was spreading outward, killing everything. Yellowstone Lake was "filled with dead fish floating everywhere."