How do you know if Old Faithful is about to erupt?

If you just want to know when the next Old Faithful eruption takes place:
  1. Check the posted prediction at the Old Faithful Visitor Center.
  2. See the Rangers' predictions on Twitter @GeyserNPS.
  3. Watch the Old Faithful webcam live and see the predictions there.
  4. Look at the Old Faithful eruption schedule online.




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Old Faithful may be the most famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park — or anywhere, for that matter — but coming in a close second is Grand Geyser, the world's tallest predictable geyser. It's impressive, and two more geysers usually join in the eruption as well: Vent and Turban Geysers.

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Indeed, periods of decreased precipitation have been shown in modern times to result in less frequent eruptions of Old Faithful, and the new research indicates that severe, long-duration droughts can terminate eruptions. For now, Old Faithful remains just that—faithful, with eruptions occurring about every 90 minutes.

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A 19-year-old was badly burned from an iconic geyser in Yellowstone National Park, officials said. Park rangers helped the woman at Old Faithful on Thursday. She had second- and third-degree burns over 5% of her body, park rangers said.

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If heat could be bled off of the magma chambers, cooling and solidifying them, not only would that (theoretically) stop the volcano from erupting, but the heat could be used to generate electric power with a geothermal energy plant.

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More than 1,000,000 eruptions have been recorded. Harry Woodward first described a mathematical relationship between the duration and intervals of the eruptions in 1938. Old Faithful is not the tallest or largest geyser in the park; those titles belong to the less predictable Steamboat Geyser.

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As global temperatures continue to climb, forecasts predict the American West will become increasingly arid. Persistent drought in this area could decelerate, and potentially even cease, the famous geyser eruptions of Yellowstone National Park, according to the study's researchers.

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