Many Earthquakes in Mammoth Lakes, CA

USGS Earthquake Map ^ | 09/25/2014 | Loud Mime

[morphing libertarian]

Bullet train right of way

[BigEdLB]

with a couple of exceptions, the track is moving NW and getting slightly shallower

[txhurl]

But why is it called Mammoth Lakes? Did the archaeologists dust ancient pumice off Mammoth skeletons? Or did divers find them at the bottom of the lakes?

[smokingfrog]

Gaia has an upset tummy.

[Army Air Corps]

The history behind the name is a bit more prosaic. It is derived from the Mammoth Mining Company.

[eyedigress]

Last time I was there in ‘89 is was pretty active. Don’t know if that is a guide or not. (Bought me a couch in Bishop, it lasted 5 years. Good times)

[kingu]

http://www.data.scec.org/recent/recenteqs/Maps/Long_Valley.html

This is the best record of earthquakes there, as you can see, quite the swarm today.

[uglybiker]

Harmonic resonance travelling through the earth from Obama’s bombing in Syria.

[ifinnegan]

These quakes happen all the time in Mammoth.

It’s on a volcano. It’s on the caldera.

Sometimes there can be tragic consequences. Maybe ten years ago one of the daily quakes shook loose a chunk of ice from the roof of a school and fell on a little girl.

[Spktyr]

Hopefully it is California undocking and floating off into the Pacific. :D

[Bullish]

[txhurl]

The history behind the name is a bit more prosaic. It is derived from the Mammoth Mining Company.

Were they a HUGE mining company, or did they keep running into mammoth bones while they were trying to mine? Sabre-tooth cats, too?

I'm just trying to get, does this small area upheave every so often?

[Mastador1]

Hopefully it is California undocking and floating off into the Pacific. :D

Well as long as we can get all the loser democrats to disembark to Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and oh yeah Texas first I can live with being an island state. ; )

[spokeshave]

Something moving around for sure.

Send for a Japanese translator......Godzilla has arrived and is breaking out.

[Doomonyou]

and it’s true!

[Spktyr]

Sorry, it’s a quarantine ship. No disembarking. :P

[al baby]

I guess I should weigh my season pass carefully this year

[RayChuang88]

The area around Mammoth Lakes is part of a VERY large volcanic caldera. There has been eruptions from this caldera in the distant past--eruptions known to eject more volcanic ash than Mt. Tambora did in 1815 (it's almost a supervolcano).