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Yellowstone National Park is rightly famous for spectacular geysers.  It also has hot springs that create thumps you can hear and feel!

Did you feel that earthquake? Time to check the location and magnitude. Do you need to find out how much Kīlauea summit region has repressurized since...

Supereruptions are often imaged to be massive instantaneous events.  New geological evidence from Yellowstone, however, shows that these eruptions are...

Ocean swells are constantly beating on the ocean floor. This nonstop drumming creates continuous signals that travel through the Earth and are...

Although earthquakes present a major geologic hazard for humans, they may be key in the long-term survival of subsurface microbial communities.

Kīlauea’s current summit eruption started on December 23, 2024. Fifty-two episodes of lava fountains have happened on average every 11 days, and we...

In response to the June 13, 2026, hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin, a new camera was installed to track activity over a broader area than had...

Although not as dramatic as past explosive eruptions at Yellowstone, Idaho is home to several young volcanic eruptions. Geologists are currently...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) relies heavily on Global Positioning System (GPS) data to monitor volcanic activity in Hawaii. Data are...

At least 28 rhyolitic lava flows, domes, and tuffs erupted since the formation of Yellowstone Caldera 631,000 years ago. Yellowstone’s past also...