So, I went to school to study geology, and in particular I was interested in volcanology and fluid dynamics. I keep an eye on Yellowstone, The cascades range of volcanoes, (Hood/Ranier/St Helens/Shasta/Baker) and some of the Volcanoes in Northern Mexico. There are risks from all of them to the US, and in some cases the whole planet.
The Yellowstone caldera is MASSIVE, 1500 square miles or so and it hasn't always been where it is today. That's a roughly 35x45 mile wide single volcano that the North American Plate is just casually floating over. 16 million years ago it was on what is now the Idaho/Utah/Nevada border. As North America has drifted West, the hotspot has migrated Northeast to where it is now. It's merrily blown it's stack several times along that route, and you can see the effects in the geology all over the western US.
Having said that, the things that are happening there are not new. Roads have been melting there since they started putting in roads. Earthquake activity in swarms is so common it isn't normally reported, especially when the peak magnitudes has been 4.4. that's enough be felt but not do any more damage than maybe knock over pictures on a bookshelf, if that. The number of quakes is within historical norms at least, so it's not new or increased really. The geysers ebb and flow with the activity of the magma under the caldera, and the Shoshone river used to be known as the "stinking River" due to the number of vents that used to flow under it making it smell like sulfur all the time. Every now and then you'll see an article about a vent popping up, but again it's nothing new.
As to the camera, with the current administration making a concerted effort to gut funding for the National Parks Service, it may never come back. If the money's not there to fix it, it's simply going to not be fixed.
Personally, I do keep an eye on it partially because it still fascinates me, and partially because I know at some point it WILL blow again. Will it be soon? I honestly don't think so. The activity isn't statistically seeing an increase if you go back and look at historical records, we're just seeing more and more of it in the media. This is partially because sensationalism drives web traffic, which generates revenue. It's also partially because people fear what they don't understand, and they KNOW that the caldera is overdue for a release event. So, they freak a little bit and post crazy things on the internet which then get picked up and sensationalized, repeating the cycle.
I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about Yellowstone in all honesty. If it goes, we're done for, and you really don't want to know it's coming.
