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“Kablooi!”
That’s the term U.S. Geological Survey volcanologists used to describe the muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool. yellowstone Saturday morning national park.
Video shared on social media by the USGS shows mud spraying up and out of the pool in Biscuit Basin between park favorites Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic just before 9:23 a.m.
Other recent eruptions have been mostly audible and not visible, as they occurred either at night or when the camera was covered with snow.
The agency said Black Diamond Pool was previously the site of a hydrothermal eruption in July 2024, which sent rocks and soil flying hundreds of feet high and damaged a boardwalk. Due to this damage and the potential for additional dangerous activity, the area was closed to visitors.
Since then, so-called dirty eruptions reaching 40 feet (about 12 meters) have occurred sporadically.
Researchers installed a new camera and a seismic and acoustic monitoring station this summer, and they say the equipment, along with temperature sensors made by the Yellowstone National Park Geology Program, can better detect and characterize eruptions.
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory webcam at Black Diamond Pool did not disappoint Saturday.
“We got a nice clear view of one of these dirty eruptions under bright blue skies, with the surroundings covered in snow (ah, winter in Yellowstone!), ” USGS Volcano Said on social media, “This is a great example of the kind of activity that has been happening at the scene for the last 19 months.”
experts Let’s say there is no real pattern to pool explosions and no precursors.
Park officials say Yellowstone preserves the most extraordinary collection of hot springs, geysers, mud pots and fumaroles. EarthOver 10,000 hydrothermal features are found within the park, over 500 of which are geysers,