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Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...
Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...
Learn how the boundaries of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone have been located, and discover how these boundaries hint at the volcano's future behavior.
Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...
Smith published his results in 1979, referring in interviews to Yellowstone as "the living, breathing caldera." Then in 1985, heralded by a "swarm" of mostly tiny earthquakes, the terrain subsided ...
A 5.2 earthquake rattled San Diego, California, and the surrounding area on Monday afternoon, according to the US Geological ...
There are as many as 169 volcanoes that are deemed as 'active' across America's 50 states, but it is Alaska's 11,070-ft-high ...
Scientists are monitoring Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska amid eruption fears which could cause disruption in the region.
In the video below, John Sherer gives an update on the status of the Biscuit Basin thermal area of Yellowstone National Park, which experienced a small hydrothermal explosion on July 23, 2024. While ...
a geophysicist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a consortium of nine state and federal agencies monitoring volcanic, hydrothermal and earthquake activity in the Yellowstone ...
Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, Geologists look for clues about prehistoric earthquakes at the bottom of lakes in the ...