[#3Fan]

Then during the last part of July one of the Park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake...

100 feet! This is major if true, methinks.

[Triple Word Score]

I retract my former humor post. My son is doing laundry without being told. It IS the end of the world.

[CoolGuyVic]

See my #43.

[Happy2BMe]

Must be a lot of hits right now on Yellowstone's web site.

It's not responding. .

[Happy2BMe]

Figures and pictures used with permission from "Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park", Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Figure 1. Path of the Yellowstone hotspot. Yellow and orange ovals show volcanic centers where the hotspot produced one or more caldera eruptions- essentially "ancient Yellowstones"- during the time periods indicated. As North America drifted southwest over the hotspot, the volcanism progressed northeast, beginning in northern Nevada and southeast Oregon 16.5 million years ago and reaching Yellowstone National Park 2 million years ago. A bow-wave or parabola-shaped zone of mountains (browns and tans) and earthquakes (red dots) surrounds the low elevations (greens) of the seismically quiet Snake River Plain. The greater Yellowstone "geoecosystem" is outlined in blue. Faults are in black.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yes, apparently the lake water level has risen to flood many nearby acres as the lake bottom has gone up.