For years, public imagination has fixated on Yellowstone as the ultimate natural doomsday machine, a supervolcano waiting to ...

The vast majority of the many quakes across the region are very small, rarely felt by people, and cause no damage.

Experts have dismissed the possibility of an eruption, saying, 'It’s Yellowstone being Yellowstone.' ...

Did anyone else grow up in perpetual fear of any and all natural disasters? I don’t know if it was cartoons or what, but as a ...

Scientists are monitoring a city of Chicago-sized swath of rising ground at the northern volcanic rim of the Yellowstone ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Mark Stelten and Nicole Thomas, ...

If you’ve been wondering about Wyoming’s famous supervolcano, there’s no cause for alarm. December 2025 brought 79 small earthquakes in the park, the largest measuring just magnitude 2.7. Overall, ...

A big, messy surprise greeted Yellowstone National Park early Saturday morning, just as winter officially began. At around 9:23 a.m., a powerful mud eruption took place at the Black Diamond Pool in ...

Do this week’s strong geomagnetic storm and earthquake in Japan mean that the Big One is nigh? That’s what some influencers on TikTok believe. On Tuesday, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, ...

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...

(via PBS Terra) Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the history of the continental United States. And if Yellowstone ...

On a trip to Yellowstone National Park back in August, I came to a stop at the turnoff for Firehole Lake Drive, where I had hoped to cruise through an active thermal area with geysers and hot springs.