Yellowstone National Park has a new plan for dealing with geologic hazards like thermal explosions and earthquakes for the ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

This frame capture of a video from a webcam shows a small eruption emanating from Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin, a subbasin of Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park on May 31.

This frame capture of a video from a webcam shows a small eruption emanating from Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin, a subbasin of Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, on May 31, 2025.

What if you only had a day or two to spend in Yellowstone National Park? Where would you go? What would you photograph? If ...

Yellowstone tourists were sent running after a small hydrothermal explosion sent boiling water, steam and debris flying over a boardwalk in the national park's Biscuit Basin.