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No offense, but if that happens, BYC is going to be pretty far down my list of "things I need to check in on". A yellowstone super eruption is a society-ending type of event. One for which we as humans are probably not prepared.

Not specifically. I looked up the fault zone data this morning on the USGS website and UT's geology reports. I did a lot of study work in the San Francisco volcanic field in Northern AZ, since that was local to me. Also Kilauea and Mauna Kea, because I wanted to work for USGS in Hawaii.

I majored in Geology in college. Volcanology and plate tectonics were my study interests, so I have a good understanding of them. I keep up with the field because I'm still very much a rock nerd. I just chose a different career path.

It might, locally (so El Paso). However, it's an old fault, the period on it is pretty long (time between significant events), and it's cut off from major driving tectonics (meaning when events happen there it's because of compression from other places further away vs it being on an active...

Franklin Mountain is on an active fault line. It isn't overly twitchy so the risk is low-moderate but it IS active.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive That looks like it's along the ramapao fault.