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In the pantheon of caldera eruptions, where does Yellowstone rank?

In the pantheon of caldera eruptions, where does Yellowstone rank?

The Yellowstone volcanic system has hosted some very large eruptions. But there have been much larger volcanic explosions in geologic history...

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Volcano Watch — Tracking down Mauna Loa’s carbon dioxide

Volcano Watch — Tracking down Mauna Loa’s carbon dioxide

When lava poured out over the floor of Moku‘āweoweo, Mauna Loa’s summit caldera, late on the night of November 27, 2022, it was still many hours away...

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Secretary Haaland, Leaders Celebrate New U.S. Geological Survey / University of Hawai’i Facility to Support Volcano Monitoring & Ecosystem Restoration

Secretary Haaland, Leaders Celebrate New U.S. Geological Survey / University of Hawai’i Facility to Support Volcano Monitoring & Ecosystem Restoration

This release was originally shared by the Department of the Interior. 

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Phones out and a toppled chimney? There’s much more to the story of the 1975 Yellowstone National Park Earthquake!

Phones out and a toppled chimney? There’s much more to the story of the 1975 Yellowstone National Park Earthquake!

Yellowstone gets rattled by plenty of small earthquakes—between 1,500 and 2,500 located events in a typical year—but large damaging earthquakes have...

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Tonga’s Hunga eruption produced the most intense lightning ever recorded

Tonga’s Hunga eruption produced the most intense lightning ever recorded

The eruption produced 2,600 flashes per minute at peak intensity. Scientists used the lightning to peer into the ash cloud, teasing out new details of...

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Everything is Relative: Precise Earthquake Location

Everything is Relative: Precise Earthquake Location

Locating an earthquake in an absolute sense can come with considerable uncertainty, but locating earthquakes relative to one another is far more...

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Recent thermal activity on Geyser Hill: New features and new eruptions!

Recent thermal activity on Geyser Hill: New features and new eruptions!

Geyser Hill, near Old Faithful, has experienced some recent changes, with a general increase in thermal and geyser activity. The changes are...

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If an eruption is so unlikely, why do we monitor Yellowstone at all?

If an eruption is so unlikely, why do we monitor Yellowstone at all?

Monitoring data from Yellowstone are not just useful for assessing the potential for volcanic eruptions there.  We can also use what we learn from...

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Volcano Watch — Volcano monitoring from space: InSAR time series success in Alaska

Volcano Watch — Volcano monitoring from space: InSAR time series success in Alaska

In a recent “Volcano Watch” article, we learned about a remote sensing technique known as InSAR. This method of using satellite radar signals to...

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New Mexico’s answer to Yellowstone: The geological story of Valles Caldera

New Mexico’s answer to Yellowstone: The geological story of Valles Caldera

Although Yellowstone Caldera might be better known, the slightly older Valles Caldera, in New Mexico, was where some of the fundamental...

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Volcano Watch — Legends of Eruptions Past

Volcano Watch — Legends of Eruptions Past

Active volcanoes tell us their stories through earthquakes, deformation, gas emissions, and lava flows. We interpret those stories through myriad...

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New USGS Data Releases Provide Data on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa

New USGS Data Releases Provide Data on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa

Several USGS data releases published in 2023 provide data on Kīlauea summit water lake present in Halemaʻumaʻu from 2019-2020, lava samples collected...

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