Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing ...

Mount Shinmoedake in Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, erupted, sending a plume of smoke more than 500 meters above the ...

Not since the days of Mark Twain has there been anything like what people witnessed in the Steamboat area of south Reno this ...

Yellowstone National Park has a new plan for dealing with geologic hazards like thermal explosions and earthquakes for the first time in 11 years ...

After a thermal explosion at Biscuit Basin, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory unveils a new safety plan to enhance monitoring and protect visitors in the park.

The December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next.