Strange Yellowstone Geyser Activity Not Sign Of Supervolcano Eruption

Scientists don’t know what caused the usually dormant geyser to erupt 3 times in the last 2 months. They say the recent eruptions of the world’s tallest geyser, Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park are not a sign that the caldera below is about to go supervolcano.

“There is nothing to indicate that any sort of volcanic eruption is imminent,"

-Michael Poland, U.S.G.S. Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

That said, they are increasing their monitoring via satellite, seismometers and temperature gauges to track this geyser that can shoot scalding hot 300-degree water into the air.

“The Yellowstone caldera is literally a bomb buried in our backyard that will one day go off and wreck the neighborhood, we just don't know when.”

-Forbes

If and when this caldera does go off, it would dwarf the eruption we saw of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.