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There has been many documentaries on this super volcano on the History and Discovery channels. According to them this thing has erupted at least 3 times in the past. According to these docu's, seismologist are closely watching one end of Yellowstone lake as it rises and falls. They said at one point around then years ago that end had risen 3 feet and left portions of the lake bed dry, but has since shrunk some.
This is an indication of lava accumulating according them them. If this thing explodes once around every 700,000 years, we may be closer than we think to another super eruption, according to the docu's the last one occurred around 650,000 years ago.
Since those time frames are very approximate, that means "anytime now."
The effect of it blowing would be significant. The shock waves could, for example, also cause massive earthquakes in California too. The most likely greatest damage would be all the ash it'd throw into the atmosphere. Things would get real cold real fast worldwide.