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In the video below, John Sherer gives an update on the status of the Biscuit Basin thermal area of Yellowstone National Park, which experienced a small hydrothermal explosion on July 23, 2024. While ...
Last July, a powerful steam explosion rocked Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park. While no one was hurt, it was a ...
Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...
Mike Poland, of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said “the feature itself is new. That there would be a new feature is, you know, mundane,” he told The Associated Press. “The noteworthy ...
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zone maps have been updated by the state fire marshal. Based on fire history and conditions of ...
“It’s fun (but) not particularly unusual,” Mike Poland, the scientists in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said at the time. “Yellowstone geysers do this all the time.” ...
Insurance issues are not likely to ease for Hamers and others in his neighborhood considering new Fire Hazard Severity Maps that continue to place Hamers' neighborhood north of Benton Drive in a zone ...
and the state maps enable viewers to compare old severity zone rating areas with new ones. Jay Sumerlin, the city of Redding's deputy fire chief, said the city of Redding's maps cover hazard ...
If you are a fan of Yellowstone’s volcanic history, you have probably seen the simplistic ashfall map that highlights how ... resulting in ash that falls in an elongated zone downwind of the volcano, ...
Though prior versions had distinguished between “moderate,” “high” and “very high” hazard zones in areas under Cal Fire’s remit, the maps only showed the most dangerous bits of the ...
A thin coat of gray mud confirmed the vent was new, according to a recent online post by scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory overseen by the U.S. Geological Survey.Mike Poland ...