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Yellowstone is not just a beautiful park. It is also one of the most dangerous volcanos in the world, and scientists recently ...
A study has expanded the earthquake record for the Yellowstone Caldera by 10 times to include 86,276 events from 2008 to 2022 ...
The Fermi bubbles were discovered in 2010 by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The two orbs form an hourglass structure ...
HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this ...
The Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, believed to be extinct for 250,000 years, shows internal signs of activity that surprise ...
The most alarming case may be West Antarctica, where more than 100 active volcanoes lie buried beneath the ice. One glacier ...
For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...
New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...
The work confirms the theory that the pressure applied by heavy ice makes it harder for magma to reach the surface, instead ...
Chilean volcano study shows melting glaciers remove pressure that suppressed eruptions for thousands of years.
The volcano may not erupt. But if magma quickly fills the chamber and an eruption does occur, the ground will likely bulge or otherwise change shape, a process called deformation.
When volcanoes are preparing to erupt, scientists rely on typical signs to warn people living nearby: deformation of the ground and earthquakes, caused by underground chambers filling up with ...