Monday's swarm of quakes on San Andreas fault being scrutinized by scientists

[Zorro]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

The shifting now underway is similar to forces that produced the Superstition Hills quake in 1987

Scientists are carefully monitoring a swarm of small earthquakes that erupted on Monday in the Salton Sea south-southwest of the San Andreas fault.

The series included a magnitude 4.6 quake that hit at 8:56 a.m. near Bombay Beach, producing shaking felt in San Diego.

“We have had many swarms like this in the past and there has been no triggering of a fault, but we’re watching this closely,” said Neil Driscoll, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “We can’t say whether it is or isn’t going to trigger a larger earthquake.”

San Diego State University seismologist said it is possible that the swarm will trigger a larger quake. Like Driscoll, Rockwell said, “This is certainly interesting, and we’re closely watching what is happening.”

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/story/2020-08-10/sdsu-says-mondays-mondays-earthquake-swarm-at-salton-sea-could-trigger-larger-event

[jpak]

1. Jeebus

That's all we need

[AZ8theist]

14. Yup....

Thank god Doturd is taking all the money out of FEMA to pay for a small fraction of UI benefits..
RIGHT????
So what if an earthquake destroys a major American city. At least we'll get a few hundred bucks ....maybe...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It's very good that the scientists are watching. Forewarned is forearmed. n/t

[captain queeg]

3. If California had a major quake the orange quack would use it to extract revenge.

[yuiyoshida]

4. oh my, that on top of everything else...

爱雅!!

If We had a major quake here like the one in 1989, Trump would tell us to fuck off, no federal funds for Democrats.

[eggplant]

7. Unless it hit Orange County, then watch the money flow. n/t

[AllaN01Bear]

5. data sheets for the quake swarm.

jaumpin jehoshaphat.
https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Maps/115-33.html

[Mike 03]

6. A way to watch this earthquake swarm in real time.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=32.98736,-116.05476&extent=33.58717,-115.17586

[AllaN01Bear]

8. info about the fault zones that are in play in the salten sea region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_Fault_Zone

[AllaN01Bear]

9. imperial valley earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Imperial_Valley_earthquake

[DownriverDem]

10. No place is perfect

but I'd not knowingly choose to live near any faults.

[Karadeniz]

11. Me, either. We would never live in California's!

[safeinOhio]

13. If I could afford it,

I'd be in SD in a New York minute.

[Zorro]

16. I hear ya

I'm fortunate enough to live in SD County (although in Duncan Hunter's former district). Spent too many of my early years in Ohio shoveling snow, which compelled me to move to warmer climes once I hit 18.

[safeinOhio]

17. My oldest friend lives

on Mission Bay. Try to get out to see him every few years. Just about every time I call him, it’s 74 degrees.
Got out of Ohio a few years ago and back in Michigan again.

[C Moon]

12. Trump would tell the governor to use all the voting finances for earthquake assistance.

[roamer65]

15. "We all have our faults, mine's in California."

- Lex Luthor (Superman, 1978)