Posted on 09/27/2014 5:34:42 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A flurry of small earthquakes rumbling near the Mammoth Mountain Volcano, have been categorized as "volcanic unrest" by the United States Geological Survey.
Nearly three dozen earthquakes ranging from magnitude 2.6 to 3.8 have swarmed the area, northeast of Fresno, California, over the last two days.
Earthquake swarms in this region are not uncommon. David Shelly, a seismologist with California Volcano Observatory, said this swarm is "bigger than we've seen recently, but normal in the area." He adds they are keeping a close eye on the movement, "but in the larger scheme of things, it's within in the range of activity over the last several decades."
Mammoth Mountain is in an area called the Long Valley Caldera. The center of the caldera has been uplifting slowly over the last several decades and seismologists continuously monitor it. "We think there is fluid coming up from the crust triggering the earthquakes," said Shelly.
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The awareness level on the USGS website remains at green/normal. Mammoth Mountain, standing at 11,053 feet, last erupted about 57,000 years ago, according to the USGS.
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‘...have been categorized as “volcanic unrest”’
That’s what you find in black communities as well as Muzzie communities in third world countries!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggeeeee!!!!
We are all so Doomed!!
Ground she’s movin’ under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulfur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Let me hear ya now, I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not
Jimmy Buffett
If you look at the website that lists all recent Cali earthquakes Mammoth Lakes dominates the last few days
I have never seen that many in the same place before
Does this mean she’s going to blow or will the numerous earthquakes eventually settle things down or adjust back to normal?
Mount Lassen in Northern California erupted in 1915. There are a lot of active volcanoes in Alaska (of course Alaska became a state only a little while before Hawaii).
“Mammoth Mountain, standing at 11,053 feet”
Being an Easterner, I think of Mount Washinton at 6,200 feet and Katadin at 5,200 feet to be high. Looking up the highest peaks, I found that Mammoth Mountain does not even garner placement in the top 200 highest mountain peaks in America.
I remember a road trip as a kid in the 50s to WA state from CA and mom pointing out that mt St Helen’s was a dormant volcano. Mom was right.
It uses steam to generate electricity, but that is not the cool part.
The cool part is that if you take the dirt road right next to the steam plant and follow it for a mile or so there are impromptu shooting ranges that are lots of fun.
The lady at the police front desk sent me there when I asked where I could shoot in the area; she said that’s where the local police go.
Well, the local police are a lot more earthy than the ones that ran my local shooting range, because they were doing odd stuff like hanging stuffed animals from trees and shooting TVs and old skis.
It made me feel just plain stuffy and uptight.
I had never shot at a stuffed animal swinging in the breeze before that day, and never since!
Where do they get the heat to generate the steam? Is it from the volcano?
There are old cinder cone volcanoes to the north, near Mono, that you can climb on.
For many years I have noticed that when an earthquake episode occurs on one side of the Pacific Oceon, there often follows a similar episode on the other side of the ocean. IOW, the earth is more closely connected than the miles of ocean across the Pacific Rim would have you believe. I question whether this flurry of seismic action in Mammouth might be reflective of the recent volcanic eruption in Japan.
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