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The mantle plume under what is now Yellowstone has produced a supervolcano. The volcano can produce massive eruptions far larger than any that have occurred in recorded history. Fortunately such massive eruptions occur only once every few hundred thousand years. If one were to occur today it would devastate the entire United States and alter the climate worldwide. Smaller eruptions have occurred more frequently. Earthquakes occasionally rock the park from the underground movement of magma. Heat from the magma creates hot springs and geysers in which the water is scalding hot to nearly boiling. There are occasional hydrothermal explosions though none have occurred since long before western settlers entered the area.

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