A new study on the supervolcano percolating underneath Yellowstone National Park reaffirms it’s not about to blow and end humanity as we know it. It ...
"This number is based simply on averaging the two intervals between the three major past eruptions at Yellowstone—this is ...
The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption ... technique that produces more precise maps of the large reservoirs of magma under ...
Map showing extent of ashfall from eruptions. The Yellowstone Caldera formed over 600,000 years ago from the Lava Creek Tuff eruption, which was measured on the Volcanic Explosivity Index as an 8 ...
There's not even a hint of a looming eruption at Yellowstone. But you might wonder why, considering its violent past: Yellowstone has hosted "supereruptions" — the most explosive type of ...
A volcanic eruption is unlikely to occur at Yellowstone National Park because ... volcanoes uses seismic data — seismic waves that can map geologic structures — to measure the magma under ...
This means that none of the reservoirs are capable of producing an eruption anytime soon. Their research suggests the northeast region of Yellowstone wouldn't expect to erupt again for hundreds of ...
Rangers at Yellowstone National Park are often asked to predict when the next massive volcanic eruption will occur there. A team of USGS scientists, who surveyed the park’s underground magma ...