Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus, Yellowstone National Park's scenery and wildlife make it one of the biggest draws for tourists in the US. But those famous ...
Magma composition may drive volcanic tremor Daily ashfall sampling at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands demonstrates potential for near-real-time eruption monitoring and forecasting tool ...
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 ...
A new study has revealed that there are seven main magma reservoirs under Yellowstone—with volcanic... An stylized illustration of the Yellowstone Caldera, showing how magma rises from the ...
And because it has not exploded in about 640,000 years, some experts and locals believe the volcano is overdue. Researchers analyzing the supervolcano's crater, or caldera, found magma inside i ...
Volcanoes can only be triggered into eruption by nearby tectonic earthquakes if they are already poised to erupt – when there's enough 'eruptible' magma within the volcanic system and ...
A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only ... study co-author Ninfa Bennington, a volcano seismologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told Live Science.
“This volcanic system is not capable of producing that sort of eruption,” Bennington said. For now, Yellowstone's mud pots will keep boiling, the hot springs will keep steaming, the geysers will keep ...