Yellowstone Volcano Eruption 2024. Based on our current knowledge of yellowstone’s eruptive history, the annual probability of a volcanic eruption is on the order of 0.001%, but even this low number is. The yellowstone volcano observatory (yvo) reported that at around 1000 on 23 july a small hydrothermal explosion occurred in yellowstone’s biscuit basin thermal area, located about 3.5 km nw of old faithful.
Significant hydrothermal explosions, probably similar in size to that of july 23, 2024, occurred in the 1880s at excelsior geyser, in midway geyser basin. Yellowstone volcano observatory scientists continue to examine data from the black diamond pool area of biscuit basin, where a hydrothermal explosion took place on july 23, 2024.