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Using machine learning, researchers found there have been over 86,000 hidden earthquakes beneath the Yellowstone Caldera ...
It looked like a geyser erupting 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) into the air for a few seconds and then, “Ba-boom!” he said. “You felt the shock wave hit your chest and vibrate the bones in ...
Similar blasts have happened in Biscuit Basin in 2009, 1991 and after the magnitude 7.2 Hebgen Lake earthquake 64 kilometres away in 1959. Yellowstone is centred on a huge, dormant volcano.
A newly-installed webcam captured a hydrothermal eruption at Yellowstone National Park, less than a year after a sizeable explosion destroyed the same area. The webcam captured a small eruption at ...
USGS scientists clarify that such changes, while sometimes dramatic, are part of Yellowstone’s geothermal landscape and are not considered precursors to a supervolcano eruption. In fact, these ...
No, Yellowstone isn’t erupting, but researchers now know where the next major eruption is most likely to take place Yellowstone National Park, largely located in northwest Wyoming, claims the ...
Scientists have just discovered a new hole in a basin in Yellowstone National Park - raising fears the supervolcano could be on the brink of erupting. The unsettling 13-foot gap is located at ...
Past events like the 1815 Tambora eruption caused the 'Year Without a Summer', resulting in drought, crop failure, and social unrest across Europe and North America.
A surprise eruption of steam in a Yellowstone National Park geyser basin that sent people scrambling for safety as basketball-sized rocks flew overhead has highlighted a little-known hazard that ...
By measuring the electrical conductivity of the silicate materials present in the magma’s melt (the liquid part of magma) below the Earth’s surface, researchers were able to map the areas throughout ...