High-intensity focused ultrasound has been shown to drive fountains and atomization at liquid-gas and tissue-gas interfaces. Though these phenomena are not well studied for diagnostic ultrasound, they have been hypothesized to play a role in diagnostic ultrasound-induced pulmonary capillary hemorrhage (PCH). We demonstrate that push pulses used in diagnostic shear wave elastography (SWE) also cause fountaining and atomization at water-air and blood-air interfaces. A focused ultrasound transducer (SSI SL15-4), was aimed upward, through water, at an air interface. An SWE pulse sequence, including four push pulses (amplitude ≤ 8.6 MPa, pulse duration ≅ 650 ms, and center frequency ≅ 5.0 MHz), was initiated. The interface was photographed at 20k fps and four successive fountains were observed. Fountains heights up to 12 and 11 mm were observed for water and blood respectively and ejected water droplets traveled up to 30 cm above the surface. The spacing of the four fountains was measured to be the same as the spacing of four PCH areas observed on rat lungs exposed to the same pulse sequence. Concurrent studies should reveal the relative efficacy of PCH induction from SWE and normal pulse echo and Doppler imaging.