New Updates On EL SALITRE And IXTLÁN—A 12TH Boiling Pool May Be Forming As UNAM Stays On Site!

Eleven boiling mud pools have opened in El Salitre, a rural community in the municipality of Ixtlán de los Hervores, Michoacán, Mexico, between May 25 and May 29, 2026. The first opening occurred on the night of May 25 at approximately 9:00 PM local time, inside the patio and pig pens of a rural residential property, when hot water, steam, mud, and sulfur-smelling gases vented from a fracture roughly four meters in diameter. The initial column reached about 15 meters in height. The family living on the property was evacuated, and 13 people in total were moved out as a precaution. A nearby preschool suspended classes. Authorities placed a safety perimeter around the affected zone and removed gas tanks from the residence. Specialist teams from UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), CENAPRED (the National Center for Disaster Prevention), UMSNH, and Michoacán State Civil Protection arrived and mapped 11 distinct mud pools — 3 inside the original property and 8 on adjacent land — between May 25 and May 29. Surface temperatures reached close to 86°C at some points. Gases identified at low concentrations include ammonia (NH₃), carbon dioxide (CO₂), and hydrogen sulfide (H₂S). On May 29, Dr. Ruth Esther Villanueva Estrada — researcher at UNAM's Institute of Geophysics, Morelia unit — published the official scientific conclusion: this is not the birth of a new volcano (no evidence of magma ascending toward the surface) and not technically a new geyser. The correct term, according to UNAM, is surface hydrothermal manifestations. El Salitre sits directly on the Ixtlán fault, a deep geological fracture that allows hot fluids from far underground to circulate upward toward the surface. The region is part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and hydrothermal manifestations have been documented in this exact area since at least 1906. Ixtlán de los Hervores is already known for three natural geysers in the municipal center, hot springs that reach 48–94°C, and nearby Los Negritos mud volcanoes. On May 31, 2026, Dr. Villanueva published a follow-up update that has shifted the central question of this case. According to El Informador and UNAM Global, the specialist noted that the region has documented hydrothermal precedents and that the appearance of new similar pools cannot be ruled out in the future. Authorities reported that the activity at the site has decreased compared to the first night, but light steam and gas emissions continue, the family has not returned home, the preschool has not reopened, and the safety perimeter has not been lifted. Specialists are continuing daily monitoring and watching for nine specific indicators that could suggest the hydrothermal system is opening a new vent elsewhere: new cracks in the ground, patches of warmer soil, wet soil where it should be dry, localized steam columns from previously stable ground, bubbling sounds in the earth, sulfur smells emerging from new locations, ground softening or sudden subsidence, migration of existing vents, and expansion of the official safety perimeter. "Not a volcano" does not mean "safe": 86°C scalds skin in less than a second, hydrogen sulfide can be dangerous in confined spaces even at low concentrations, and unstable ground can collapse under weight. The risk catalog at El Salitre is not lava — it is children, animals, school yards, gardens, drinking water wells, and the home itself, which the family cannot enter. The most important question in El Salitre is no longer whether a volcano is being born. Scientists say it is not. The question now is whether the ground is still looking for another place to open.

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