Yellowstone volcano’s magma chamber mapped in There are just 20 supervolcanoes in the world, each an unusually large volcano that has the potential to produce an eruption that would affect the entire world. Yellowstone supervolcano, or Yellowstone Caldera, is one of them. Situated in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park, it formed in the course of three supereruptions that occurred over the past 2.1 million years.
Volcanism at Yellowstone is in the grand scheme of things a relatively recent thing, with few other volcanoes of such size having experienced such large eruptions in such a short period. Of all the volcanoes in the world, Yellowstone is the one that keeps volcanologists awake at night, for its eruption would send shockwaves across the world.
Experts are so fearful that NASA, the US space agency, previously launched an entire project focused on handling and containing any future eruption in a project like nothing before. The plans drawn up by NASA scientists would not only spare the world from a deadly super eruption, but also transform Yellowstone into a source of electric power.
