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How might the floods in and around Yellowstone NP influence seismic and hydrothermal activity?

  Borehole instruments: The hidden component of geophysical monitoring in Yellowstone Release Date: August 16, 2021 When it comes to data, Yellowstone is a geophysicist’s dream. There is continuous activity from earthquakes, geysers, and of course, the volcano itself. A keen eye may be able to spot one of the park’s numerous GPS or seismometer stations hard at work, but some of the park’s data collectors are buried deep within the Earth, hidden from sight in boreholes. Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Courtenay Duzet, graduate student at the University of Montana and intern at UNAVCO. When it comes to monitoring data, Yellowstone is one of the best-covered volcanic systems in the world! Numerous instruments are distributed throughout the park to collect data for assessing the state of the vo...

  More than 1,000 earthquakes rock Yellowstone in July

      The complex plumbing systems of Steamboat Geyser and Cistern Spring Release Date: March 22, 2021 Steamboat Geyser has been wowing visitors to Yellowstone National Park since March 2018.  Seismic studies of the geyser and nearby Cistern Spring are now revealing details of the hydrothermal plumbing system that would not otherwise be known, possibly explaining why the geyser eruptions are the tallest in the world! Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Sin-Mei Wu, Jamie Farrell, and Fan-Chi Lin, seismologists with the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sources/Usage: Public Domain.  View Media Details Steamboat Geyser in the water-phase of an eruption on June 4, 2018, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Jamie...