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Stephanie Pappas

We finally know where the Yellowstone volcano will erupt next

An overhead view of Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone.

New research has pinpointed where theYellowstone supervolcano will likely erupt. It won't blow today, but future eruptions will likely center on the northeastern side of the national park, the new study finds.

Not that Yellowstone is likely to still be a national park by the time it erupts. Any such eruption is expected to take place hundreds of thousands of years from now, study co-author Ninfa Bennington, a volcano seismologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told Live Science.

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