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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...