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.

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 ...

Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National Park — marked by a thermal feature eruption that destroyed a boardwalk and sent visitors fleeing from an eruption of black water, mud and ...

Volcano Eruptions. Add Topic. ... (Washington, Oregon, Idaho), Hawaii and Yellowstone. Here's how the eruption unfolded: ... A 15-miles radius around the area was evacuated and roadblocks put in ...

Supervolcano Eruption. Image via Unsplash. Yellowstone is among the most intensively monitored geological features on Earth. The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a partnership between the USGS, ...

Locally, a Yellowstone eruption would obliterate everything within a 100-kilometer radius. Ashfall would extend thousands of kilometers, with the heaviest deposits in surrounding states like ...

Scientists have studied Yellowstone National Park's magmatic system for years, but a new view of the magma chamber shows the long-dormant supervolcano is not at immediate risk of eruption.

Yellowstone is not just a volcano; it is a supervolcano, characterized by its ability to produce eruptions with volumes exceeding 1,000 cubic kilometers. Located primarily in the northwest corner of ...

Firstly, the most immediately devastating effects would be felt by the regions closest to the Yellowstone Caldera, a 43-by-28-mile-wide depression formed by previous eruptions.

– Yellowstone volcano super-eruptions appear to involve multiple explosive events "We have a much lower concentration of magma in these pore spaces, so a lot fewer of the pore spaces are filled ...