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☆ Yellowstone’s popular Biscuit Basin is closed for the summer after hydrothermal explosion
  + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Amanda Musa | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Biscuit Basin – located about 2 miles northwest of the famed Old Faithful geyser in Wyoming – was shuttered for the rest of the summer out of concern for visitor safety, according to park officials. This map shows the major thermal features in Biscuit Basin at Yellowstone National Park. Officials say Grand Loop Road, which surrounds Biscuit Basin and other notable sites in the park, remains open to vehicles. Biscuit Basin and other popular geysers have experienced similar explosions in the past, officials said. Additionally, a small hydrothermal explosion occurred from Wall Pool, in Biscuit Basin, in 2009, according to officials.
Persons: “, CNN’s Jamiel Lynch Organizations: CNN, Yellowstone, National Park Service, Geological Survey, Google, Survey, ” Geologists, Porcelain Locations: Wyoming, Sand, Norris, Porcelain Terrace, Wall, Yellowstone
☆ Yellowstone National Park closes some areas after hydrothermal explosion
  + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Jamiel Lynch | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
“Hydrothermal explosions are violent and dramatic events resulting in the rapid ejection of boiling water, steam, mud, and rock fragments,” according to the US Geological Survey. “Porkchop Geyser, in Norris Geyser Basin, experienced an explosion in 1989, and a small event in Norris Geyser Basin was recorded by monitoring equipment on April 15, 2024. Hydrothermal explosions like that of today are not a sign of impending volcanic eruptions, and they are not caused by magma rising towards the surface.”Large hydrothermal explosions occur on an average of every 700 years, the USGS says. “Although large hydrothermal explosions are rare events on a human time scale, the potential for additional future events of the sort in Yellowstone National Park is not insignificant. Based on the occurrence of large hydrothermal explosion events over the past 16,000 years, an explosion large enough to create a 100-(meter)- (328-ft-) wide crater might be expected every few hundred years,” it added.
Persons: ” Organizations: CNN, Geological Survey Locations: Yellowstone, Wyoming, Norris, Norris Geyser
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