June 2018

Explosions at Hawaii's Kilauea Summit Keep Producing Magnitude 5.3 Quakes

The Kilauea volcano's Halema'uma'u crater erupted ash plumes. For the seventh time in eight days, an explo…

Site of the Next Major Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?

Map showing the faults and uplifting late Cenozoic basin fill (gray) of southeastern California. A larger version is avai…

World's Tallest Active Geyser Erupts in Yellowstone National Park for the 9th Time

Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser is the region's largest and up until 2018, it's …

Kilauea's Summit Crater Has Been Radically Transformed

The lava lake in the summit crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been rising in recent Throughout Kilauea’s ong…

'Slow Earthquakes' on San Andreas Fault Increase Risk of Large Quakes

The southern San Andreas Fault slices across the Carrizo Plain in California. Both the northern and southern sections of …

Texas & New Mexico Rockhounding: Places to Dig for Gemstones

Both Texas and New Mexico have a nice variety of mineral specimens that can be found including fluorite, quartz, opals, b…

True Origin of Ancient Turquoise

New research published today in the journal Science Advances overturns more than a century of thought about the sourc…

These Are the Most Ancient Frogs Ever Found Preserved in Amber

Two of the four frogs found in amber (the specimen on the right shows two views). Image: Lida Xing The extraordinary disco…

Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Has Created 250 Acres of New Land

The remains of the Kapoho Beach Lots subdivision and a fissure flow front at the town of Kapoho in Hawaii (US Geologica…

Is Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Shooting Green Gems Into the Air?

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been fiercely erupting for well over a month. Now, residents are finding little green …

Scientists Discover 'Oldest Footprints on Earth'

The identity of the creature that made the 546-million-year-old tracks is still unknown, but they come from the period …

Hawaii Volcano: Pele's Hair Is Falling From the Sky

Fine, glass tendrils — Pele’s hair — are flying around Big Island after explosive eruption Strange as it may seem, tendri…

Steamboat Geyser Erupts for 8th Time Since March, and Scientists Aren't Sure Why

Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser's rare eruption The Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupted for j…

Lava Evaporates Hawaii's Largest Lake in a Matter of Hours

Lava flow from Fissure 8 enters Kapoho Bay, Hawaii Last Friday, Green Lake, also known as Ka Wai a Pele, was Hawaii’s…

Large Igneous Provinces Contribute to Ups and Downs in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

About 250 million years ago, a massive volcanic eruption flooded modern-day Siberia with lava, creating the Siberian Tr…

Yellowstone Volcano Magma ‘is Heating the Boiler’

Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Idaho have found a new way to estimate how fast magm…

Earthquakes Rock Kilauea's Summit, Lava Covers Nearly 5,000 Acres

A bird rests on a wire as lava from a Kilauea volcano fissure erupts on Hawaii's . Earthquakes are still rattling…