Strange tremors under San Andreas fault

[Zorro]

Since I live in SoCal, I find this news somewhat unsettling...

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Mysterious tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault near the quake-prone town of Parkfield are shaking the Earth's brittle crust, far below where earthquakes normally strike.

Scientists say they can't understand what's happening or what it means.

Seismic researchers are monitoring the strange vibrations closely around the Monterey County town...

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041211/news_1n11tremors.html

[goclark]

1. Woo!

To close for comfort.

I love California but earthquakes are not for the faint of heart.
I've lived here many years.

[BeyondThePale]

2. No doubt Pat Robertson...

and Jerry Falwell will offer apocalyptic interpretations of this...

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

3. Relax. It is just the other end

of Cheney's tunnel from the Naval Observatory. They made a wrong turn tunneling over to Osama.

DBDB

[ooglymoogly]

5. lol eom

[Cicero]

6. "I knew I should have made that left turn at Albequerque" (nt)

[Eurobabe]

20. love that name !!! LOL

[eternalburn]

4. Doesn't it mean : the deeper the tremor/quake- the more serious it is?(nt)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Not necessarily.

And these don't seem to be "normal" earthquakes, anyway. However, their proximity to the epicenter of the Ft. Tejon earthquake is rather unsettling.

[NMDemDist2]

7. perhaps it's another symptom of the St Helen's activity? n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. Far away.

San Andreas isn't even really part of the same system as St. Helens.

[ToBeCooked]

8. As much as I like Cali, I am afraid to live there.

I have visted there four or five times and I love it there. Especially in SF and North. I did some Mountain Biking there and it was great. I would love to live there, but the fault is gonna go someday and it's waiting for me to move out there.....:-).

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

19. "the fault is gonna go someday "

Actually, in the case of the bay area it's faults plural. They Hayward fault (running through the east bay - Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, etc.) has the potential to be even more destructive in terms of property than the San Andreas, simply because it's so much more built-up than the San Andreas. Marc Riesner (author of the excellent Cadillac Desert) has a good book on this subject called "A Dangerous Place." It's well worth a read, even if you don't live in California:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679420118/qid=1104520078/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/103-5147506-9812606?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[momzno1]

9. Anyone have thoughts about Pole shift?

hearing all kinds of crazy stuff about the earth wobbling on its axis as the planet gets ready for a pole shift....
I read too much...

[Nihil]

10. Occasionally

Like most hypotheses, it answers some questions but raises a whole new
bunch of 'em ...

[Desertrose]

11. any chance this could be connected to the recent 9.0 quake

in Indonesia with the subsequent tsunami?

I wonder.....

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. Not really.

I believe the strange rumblings were occuring long before the big quake.

[Desertrose]

16. You are telling me there is no connection?

How can you know?

I disagree...we are all on the same globe and what affects one area affects another to some degree or another......perhaps not directly related but certainly connected.

The earth & all its inhabitants are connected...with all thats been occuring that seems fairly clear to me.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. If you want to look for a connection...

...start with the Ft. Tejon earthquake. I fail to see what this action on the San Andreas, which has been going on for quite some time, has anything to do with a subduction zone halfway around the world on a plate boundary between two plates that are completely separate from the pacific and north american plates. There is no transfer of mechanical energy going on between that subduction zone and the san andreas fault. There is no transfer of heat energy going on there either. If you think there is a connection, how do you define it in terms of geophysics? There is nothing unusual about the quake in asia. The behavior on the san andreas is unusual to some extent, but with the limited span of history and locations that have been closely monitored (like Parkfield) it's difficult to say how unusual the san andreas activity actually is. Unless you can describe some method for energy transfer between these locations, I don't see how you can say they're connected.

[HeeBGBz]

15. The ring of fire has had some activity near Japan and the Aleutians

Seismic Monitor

Yes, I've nervously mentioned pole shift to several people since I read about the wobble of the axis.

[emad]

17. Arnie's plumbing system failing after the Xmas binge?

????