California going off!

reply to post by hollwd


Thats maybe why the Salton sea is dying?

Salton sea: drying up for good

Originally posted by FissionSurplus
reply to post by hollwd

 

The rest of the world is relatively quiet as well. Strange harbinger of......?

That is what I thought was very odd. Normally the maps have EQ's in many more areas. It's almost like they are all concentrated in one area for the last few hours.

I'm no expert but can see this isnt normal. Anyone know how to get Puterman's advise on this? He is very knowlegable about EQ's.

reply to post by UnaChispa


all the old buildings all ready fell down most of Westmoreland fell back a few years and Niland, Calipatria, Not much left there in those towns from the OLD days,,

I thought I would throw some links up so everyone has a variety for cross checking...

European Earthquake Data Center (This has a GREAT 'search' feature where you can simply drag a box over the map to set coordinates for quake listing searches)

Global Incident - Quakes

USGS Main Quake Map Display

RSOE

IRIS Seismic Monitor

Hope these help to get the best data. Best wishes to all in Cali! Lets hope it starts and ends in the Brawley area. Not much down there but produce sheds and the Salton Sea. No high rise buildings or other hazards like that, anyway.

All you silly ducks.

(a) The swarm is good since it'd be better to release energy in burst rather than one single occurrence.
(b) The world is more or less "connected" by tectonic plates. Of course if an event happens in one area, it affects changes to others. So this swarm is not some "omen" of things to come, but rather just natural processes.
(c) No connection to the current tropical storms, RNC, or any of that other non-sense. Purely speculation and attempts by people to connect non-existent dots.
(d) No, this is not any build-up to 2012 "wish lists." There have been stronger and more significant quakes in this area in the past.
(e) All you predicting and feeling "big" things coming, where were you before these quakes? Exactly....

reply to post by riverwild


Sorry about the Iran thing.. I read it wrong.. that one was on the 12th.. it was the USGS.gov I didnt read the fine print.

didn't I read... that there was a conspiracy theory that the Salton Sea was created for the specific purpose of causing pressure on the San Andreas fault line in order to spur quakes and trigger them in a more timely Armageddon-Apocalyptic time-frame scenario??

And didn't I reeeead....

Originally posted by Rhain
reply to post by deadeyedick

 

Odd that rest of EQ hot spots are quiet. Never seen this map so bare.

It just goes to show that these hot spots are connected.
It is indeed weird.
Last year i made a thread cause there were no eq in about a two hour period.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I had never seen that before nor after.





It looks like it's up to over 100 eq in cali. 3hr time period so far

reply to post by TravisBickle451

The swarm is good since it'd be better to release energy in burst rather than one single occurrence.

Or could build up energy for a bigger earthquake.

Could go both ways, and a swarm like this is unusual...

Originally posted by TravisBickle451
All you silly ducks.

(a) The swarm is good since it'd be better to release energy in burst rather than one single occurrence.
(b) The world is more or less "connected" by tectonic plates. Of course if an event happens in one area, it affects changes to others. So this swarm is not some "omen" of things to come, but rather just natural processes.
(c) No connection to the current tropical storms, RNC, or any of that other non-sense. Purely speculation and attempts by people to connect non-existent dots.
(d) No, this is not any build-up to 2012 "wish lists." There have been stronger and more significant quakes in this area in the past.
(e) All you predicting and feeling "big" things coming, where were you before these quakes? Exactly....

I have been at my house! I've been feeling things for the past 2 weeks. Maybe I'm just crazy, who knows?
Anyways, you probably right. its probably just releasing pressure.

There was a 5.3 mag earlier as well, I don't see this one reported yet so please forgive me if this is a duplicate post.

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time

Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 19:31:23 UTC
Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 12:31:23 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 33.016°N, 115.564°W
Depth 9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Region SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances

5 km (3 miles) NNW (329°) from Brawley, CA
6 km (4 miles) ESE (114°) from Westmorland, CA
13 km (8 miles) SSW (201°) from Calipatria, CA
25 km (16 miles) N (359°) from El Centro, CA
146 km (91 miles) ENE (68°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles)
Parameters Nph= 55, Dmin=10 km, Rmss=0.25 sec, Gp= 68°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source

California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID ci15199681


This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time

Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 19:31:23 UTC
Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 12:31:23 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 33.016°N, 115.564°W
Depth 9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Region SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances

5 km (3 miles) NNW (329°) from Brawley, CA
6 km (4 miles) ESE (114°) from Westmorland, CA
13 km (8 miles) SSW (201°) from Calipatria, CA
25 km (16 miles) N (359°) from El Centro, CA
146 km (91 miles) ENE (68°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles)
Parameters Nph= 55, Dmin=10 km, Rmss=0.25 sec, Gp= 68°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source

California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID ci15199681

This one was pretty shallow too so I hope they don't start getting even bigger.

The quirk about quakes and pressure... It's an odd thing as I learned growing up out there. Sometimes it is a positive thing. Most of the time, in fact. However, sometimes, it isn't releasing anything. It's just shifting it from one fault line to another. One moves and eases....another has a more desperate need to move with the added strain. I hope it's the former.

Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
The quirk about quakes and pressure... It's an odd thing as I learned growing up out there. Sometimes it is a positive thing. Most of the time, in fact. However, sometimes, it isn't releasing anything. It's just shifting it from one fault line to another. One moves and eases....another has a more desperate need to move with the added strain. I hope it's the former.

Yes, I hope its positive..... just imagine if its not good. Volcanoes can form pretty fast and things can change pretty fast.

i'm in Baja California...and i felt it. It was a wavy motion...that only lasted about 2-3 seconds. Not much, but enough to make me go

reply to post by AnonymousCitizen


NO NO NO.. it is probably water wells.. we only have water if we pump it up from artisian wells.. ( NOT nice clean clear water,,, ugly yellow water that smells with all kinds of minerals in it.) and Brawley has a part of the San Andreas fault running under it.. You will not have frackin there.. The Imperal Valley use to be UNDER WATER.. to the east is a large sand dunes.. (BEACH) to the west along the mountain wall is a LINE.. you can see where the water WAS.. there is a line on the Silo at the Sugar mill to show how far below sea level they are.. WE all grew up afraid of the EQ that will once a gain let the water in from the ocean.

by the way. 2 more earth quakes in Brawley, CA!

reply to post by prevenge


LOL I don't think so... just crack the mountain open and let in the ocean.. The Salton Sea is saltier that the ocean.. and it has ocean fish in it. what live.. i use to swim in it when I was a kid. 50 years ago.. it got worse each year. The river from Mexico runs into it.. the Water is almost red and smells very bad now. and dead fish all along the bank.. and that was what I saw 25 years ago at least..

reply to post by WSandAbnormal


Along the salton sea near westmoreland there are HOT MUD POTS they are small volanic activity that look like the mud is boiling .. they are always there, You can see them more as the water drys up along the lake..

reply to post by hollwd


Yup. That entire desert was once under water. Before all the building around Palm Springs, you could see on the mountains a water line that indicated the shore of the desert, once upon a time. And the town Coachella was named due to the shells found all over (Coachella being mangled from Conchilla, Spanish for the small white shells found all over in the sand). en.wikipedia.org...

I used to go out there all the time back in the 1970s, and the idea that the whole desert was once under water was quite fascinating to me. Get enough of an earthquake to breach the Gulf of California, and it could be filled with water once again.

reply to post by WSandAbnormal


LOL it is those salt domes moving...