Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...

As first reported by our friends at Buckrail, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake was registered Thursday night. According to data ...

MAMMOTH, Wyoming — An earthquake near Yellowstone National Park shook parts of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming on Tuesday. At about 6 p.m., a magnitude-3.9 earthquake was recorded about 15 ...

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Yellowstone National Park, the oldest national park in the USA and home to some of the most unique geological features on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sylvia Nicovich is a Mendenhall Fellow in the Geologic Hazards Science Center. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from Cal Poly Humboldt University and a Ph.D. in earth sciences from ...

Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

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 ...

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 ...