Yellowstone s Steamboat Geyser woke in 2018 after sleeping for three years
The geyser has since had 129 eruptions that some said could lead to the big one
A new study found few indications of magma movement under the geyser
It stores large amounts of water that provide more energy to power explosions
Experts also found snowmelt and rainfall added pressure that caused eruptions
The reawakening of Steamboat Geyser does not foretell Yellowstone volcanic eruptions, researchers report.
When Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser which shoots water higher than any active geyser in the world reawakened in 2018 after three and a half years of dormancy, some speculated that it was a harbinger of possible explosive volcanic eruptions within the surrounding geyser basin. These so-called hydrothermal explosions can hurl mud, sand, and rocks into the air and release hot steam, endangering lives; such an explosion on White Island in New Zealand in December 2019 killed 22 people.
A new study by geoscientists who study geysers throws cold water on that idea, finding few indications of underground magma movement that would be a prerequisite to an eruption. The geysers sit just outside the nation’s largest and most dynamic volcanic caldera, but no major eruptions have occurred in the past 70,000 years.
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