Steamboat is the world's tallest currently active geyser, capable of shooting jets of boiling hot water more than 300 feet into the air.
Steamboat geyser in Yellowstone National Park is the tallest active geyser in the world, capable of shooting jets of boiling hot water more than 300 feet into the air.
With half of 2019 gone already, this means the geyser is well on track to smash the annual eruption record that was set last year, which stands at 32. The previous record—29—was set all the way back in 1964. While Steamboat has been particularly active since March, 2018, the geyser has experienced periods of relative calm in recent times. For example, there were no significant eruptions between October 1991 and May 2000, according to the USGS.
Unlike Yellowstone's other famous geyser"Old Faithful" which is highly predictable, Steamboat's major eruptions are much more difficult to pin down. While recent activity shows that intervals between significant eruption can be relatively short, Steamboat—located in Yellowstone's Norris Geyser Basin—has gone up to 50 years without erupting at least in the period for which we have scientific records.
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