Permanent monitoring equipment headed to Biscuit Basin area in Yellowstone National Park

This frame capture of a video from a webcam shows a small eruption emanating from Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin, a subbasin of Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, on May 31, 2025. This was the site of a hydrothermal explosion on July 23, 2024. (Provided by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory)

On Saturday night, an eruption from the Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park shot up about 20 feet, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

On May 14, scientists had installed a temporary and mobile camera at the Biscuit Basin site, northwest of Old Faithful, following a massive explosion there on July 23, 2024.

Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientist-in-charge Michael Poland said this week the detection of the burst at the Black Diamond Pool shows the came