M3.2 Lakeview, Oregon!!! No Big Deal or is it??The Veins of YSNP

M3.2 - 68km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon

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The hot springs were discovered in 1832 by trappers from the Hudson's Bay Company, who noted in their journal that the water was unbearably hot.[1] They are a small group of alkaline thermal springs in Lake County's Goose Lake Valley, 2 miles (3 km) north of Lakeview.[2] The temperature of the various springs ranges from 185 to 210 °F (85 to 99 °C).[3] The spring water is alkaline with a high concentration of sulfate and other minerals. This environment supports large bacterial mats in the natural channels that drain the springs.[4] As a result, the bacterial mat communities at the hot springs have been studied and analyzed by microbiologists from around the world.[5]

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2010


It shot 200-degree water 40 feet into the air every 30 seconds to two minutes. Generations of visitors to Hunter's Hot Springs Resort have snapped pictures of the geyser or soaked in the hot pools nearby.

In recent decades, the geyser disappeared in summer, coinciding with increased groundwater pumping from nearby wells for irrigating hay fields. But after irrigation season ended in fall, the geyser always returned.

But last fall it didn't.

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Yesterday Lake view had EQ as well