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I have a degree in General Geology, none of this is new to me. 1) Only a single eruptive caldera is possible, not 4. The hotspot only feeds a single chamber, not 4. So you could never have 4 going at once, like you theorized. 2) The caldera forming eruptions are created by releases from...

So a few misconceptions I need to correct here. 1) Yellowstone does not have 4 separate eruptable calderas. It has one hotspot that has erupted and formed seperate calderas as it the plates moves over top of it. So we'd only have a single caldera forming eruption ever happen at once. 2)...

So as if the Wuhan Flu situation wasn't enough for the world to deal with, Yellowstone's been showing increased activity and pulsing over the last two years. A chunk of Yellowstone the size of Chicago has been pulsing. Why? TL;DR: Volcanic or super-volcanic eruption unlikely to be imminent...