The Steamboat geyser erupted for the 30th time this year on Saturday, December 8, meaning it has passed the official record of 29 set in 1964. Steamboat Geyser roared back into life earlier last April with the first triple eruption in 15 years, sparking interest from the scientific community. It has now continued on this path, erupting for the 30th time this year at 1:07AM local time on December 8.
Prior to the most recent eruption, it was 9 days, 4 hours and 30 minutes since it last since it last blew – the longest gap in eruptions since August.
Jeff Hungerford, Yellowstone’s park geologist, said: “The heightened activity at Steamboat this year is uncommon but not unprecedented.
“We have seen similar activity twice previously; once in the early 1960s, and again in the early 1980s.
“Conversely, the world’s tallest active geyser has also exhibited years of quiescence or no major eruptions, with the longest being the 50-year period between 1911 and 1961.
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“We’ll continue to monitor this extraordinary geyser.”
Geysers like Old Faithful and Steamboat erupt whenever water and steam get trapped in a tight spot deep below the geyser’s blowhole.
The mix of water and steam builds in pressure until it finds its way to the surface where a tall stream of scorching hot water blasts hundreds of feet in the sky.
Experts will continue to analyse the geysers to see if they indicate any sort of impending eruption for Yellowstone.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a “nuclear winter”.
The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington’s Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.
If the volcano explodes, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.