Volcano under Yellowstone national park in U S A

 

     The Yellowstone national park in the U S A is located in the western U S A largely in the northwest corner region of the Wyoming. Even though the official address is in the state of Wyoming, it is actually in three states extending into Montana and Idaho. Its longitude is 110 degrees 35 minutes and 18.6576 seconds west and its latitude is 44 degrees 25 minutes 25.2871 seconds north. Its area is 2219.791 acres (8983.18 sq. k m) or( 3468.4 Sq. miles ).It comprises of canyons, lakes, rivers and mountain ranges. It also comprises of wild life like America largest buffalo herd, grizly bears and wolves.

     A largest super volcano is also located in this park. The three super eruptions of this volcano occurred 2.1 millions, 1.3 million and 640000 years ago forming the island Paric caldera, the Henry park caldera and Yellowstone caldera respectively. Over the past 16.5 million years or so the hot spot of park generated a succession of explosive eruptions. At least a dozen of the eruptions are so massive that they are classified as super eruptions. Volcanic eruptions sometimes empty their source of magma so swiftly that the overlying land collapses into the emptied magma chamber forming a geographic depression called caldera.

     The United States estimates that there are one or two major caldera forming eruptions per million years and several of many steam eruptions per century. Presently volcanic activity is exhibited via geothermal vents scattered throughout the region plus recorded ground swelling indicating ongoing inflation of the underlying magma chamber.  There is a great flume of magma located below the calderas’ surface. This may cause very large explosion at any time.

     According to earthquake data in 2013 the magma chamber is 80 k m (50 miles) long and 20 k m (12 miles) wide. It also has 4000 cu. K m (960 cu. Miles) underground volume of which 6 to 8 % is filled with molten rock. The analysis indicates that the magma reservoir can reach eruptive capacity and trigger a super eruption within just decades only, not centuries as volcanologists had originally thought. Yllowstone is monitored for volcanic activity by Y V O scientists. They have not detected any signs of eruption so far.

     But there is uplift pressure from the magma indicating swelling of the ground surface over it, besides many geysers and hot water springs. If there is any pull upwards due to planetary conjunctions it may assist eruption provided it is sufficiently large enough. One such indication to be watched is the conjunction of planets Saturn and Neptune in the first degree of the sign Aries of the movable zodiac on 21-02-2026, which is said to be most powerful critical degree. Moon also joins these two planets on 20-02-2026. Hence dates from 19-02-2026 to 22-02-2026 are to be carefully watched when these planets are almost directly overhead over Yellowstone National Park U S A and thereby exerts more pull than any other day.

     Since Y V O scientists are carefully watching, they may indicate any such possibility of volcanic eruption in advance.