The Earth aside from being inhabited by humans, animals, and plants serve as a huge platter that contains the most powerful and most destructive land formation called the volcanoes. When I was young, my grandfather used to say that volcanoes are created by God to absorb the heat of the entire planet. It's like they act as storage basin of all the heat trapped inside the Earth's core.
When I ask why do volcanoes erupt, he said that there are times that they can no longer keep all the heat that's why they have to release a few lava and magma. I think my grandfather tried his best to explain every detail about volcanoes in a way that his naughty five-year old grandson will understand. And I think my grandpa is right from the very start, because as I started school and became interested to Science, I learned that volcanoes erupt only when the temperature of the hot
molten lava inside their crater exceeds their heat capacity.
The Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and covers until the east region of California's San Andreas Fault is considered as the largest active volcanoes in the planet. Aside from the
historical Dead Sea, Yellowstone is also known for its hot springs and steaming mud pots. But some experts say that the active volcano may blast again in the future years since active volcanism is taking place under its surface creating steaming springs and boiling mud. It erupted at least 640,000 years ago and experts said that if Yellowstone will release its rage at this modern age, it would kill billions of people and making eruptions of other volcanoes seem safer, but they also said that considering it as a mega huge volcano, its eruption will only take place, once in a millennium. I'm fascinated with the historical past of the Yellowstone volcano and the activity within it that may soon be discovered; and the interest I guess is what I inherited from my grandpa, who by the way is a vulcanologist-slash-seismologist.
