The supervolcano resting underneath Yellowstone National Park is “unlikely” to erupt in our lifetime, scientists told The Washington Post.

“Nowhere in Yellowstone do we have regions that are capable of eruption,” Ninfa Bennington, the lead author of a new paper published in Nature on Wednesday, told the Post. “It has a lot of magma, but the magma is not connected enough.”

Because so much magma is underneath the surface of Yellowstone, the region will stay volcanically active, Bennington said. But because the magma rests in segregated reservoirs, it’s not concentrated enough to lead to an eruption in our lifetime.

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