Swimming Pools at Yellowstone? (Yellowstone Monthly Update - June 2024)

[@jpopelish]

About 20 years ago, I had the momentary impulse to taste a drop of the water from Old Faithful to find out how the taste was affected by the volcanic minerals and gasses. Over the next two days, I experienced the worst bout of amoebic dysentery of my life, so far. Imagine swimming in that water while avoiding becoming home to any of those heat loving microbes.

[@sunnyone-ct4rp]

Thanks for the report.

[@1pcmedic]

No playing whale in that pool 🤣🤣🤣

[@Mrs.LadeyBug]

“So far” because you can’t stop yourself from experimenting on other water drops?! Must. Be. Scientist. 😅

[@jpopelish]

@@Mrs.LadeyBug Must be.

[@SandyQueue]

I look forward to these updates every month. Thanks Mike and Team!

[@maxxlindley9425]

always informative and entertaining as well.

[@GixxerUT]

It was great to meet you, Mike, and thanks for taking time to share really cool information with us about the monitoring going on. If only Steamboat had erupted for us while you were there talking to us.

[@juliemulie1805]

Dipped into the hot springs in Thermopolis WY. Had a raging eye infection until it was treated. Warm water+humans+wildlife wastes= microbe party!

[@enedinavillamor4149]

Gracias ❤

[@MrDan708]

When I was there in 2013, I barely dodged a spitball from one of the Artists' Paintpots. You do have to keep your eyes open, there!

[@usgs]

Woah! Well, if you want to relive your close call, you can always check out our Artists' Paintpots ASMR video (no eyes will be harmed watching it) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJXJfqqsetuelc0

[@AmberStreetFilms]

Nice!!

[@williamhug3759]

Can we get a several year animation of Earthquake activity and discussion? That would be cool

[@usgs]

Great suggestion! We created and uploaded an animated GIF showing patterns of seismicity by year during 2017-2023. You can find that at www.usgs.gov/media/images/animation-annual-yellowstone-seismicity-2017-2023. The number of quakes fluctuates, mostly due to the occurrence of large swarms (which show up really well on the maps as tight clusters of numerous small earthquakes). Swarms are mostly caused by groundwater interacting with preexisting faults (which are plentiful throughout the region). The numbers of earthquakes each year are 2017 - 3,427 2018 - 2,007 2019 - 1,218 2020 - 1,722 2021 - 2,773 2022 - 2,429 2023 - 1,623 We'll see about doing a "caldera chronicles" article on this topic (that's our weekly article about some aspect of Yellowstone geology/activity, accessible at www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/caldera-chronicles and USGSVolcanoes social media channels). Thanks for the idea of the topic and graphic!

[@matildagreene1744]

Just think, though...it will keep the genius's away from the bison herds !! 🙃

[@borismedved835]

There lots of self-deluded "geniuses" around there. Which one did you mean, and it will keep his _what_ away?

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

@@borismedved835 I think that was a "typo". But you correct that Yellowstone has a lot self-deluded "geniuses", and when they leave the park, other self-deluded "geniuses" are there within minutes to take their place. I used to work in YP and we always called them Tourons, and the joke explanation for that was _"They're Half Tourist and Half Moron, but not necessarily in those proportions."_

[@matildagreene1744]

@@Bigfoot-px9gj Yes, the Tourons...and they are here in droves already. RV's and four wheelers. Time to hide out.

[@kandacelewis494]

That’s not snow that’s volcanic ash😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮