Posted on 10/03/2020 5:39:16 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The desert near the Salton Sea continue to tremble as a swarm of small earthquakes that started Wednesday continued into Thursday.
The swarm slowed down Thursday, but at least four earthquakes of magnitude 3 or larger were recorded in the first seven hours of the day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The swarm is taking place in the Brawley seismic zone, a predominantly extensional tectonic zone that connects the southern terminus of the San Andreas Fault with the Imperial Fault in Southern California.
The area has seen swarms in the past in which they remain active for as many as 20 days, but the average duration is about a week, the USGS said. The current swarm is happening 25 miles to the south of the swarm that happened near Bombay Beach in August.
(Excerpt) Read more at strangesounds.org ...
Who had California Earthquakes on their 2020 card?
If there is anything left of this sea, it will be swallowed up in the coming 7.0 earthquake, imo.
Love it. Yep, that’s about the situation.
It is a cesspool getting worse by the day.
Beginning in 1900, to help irrigate fertile but dry lands in the Imperial Valley, canals were built across the southern edge of the Salton Basin. Too small to handle flood waters and shoddily built, in 1905 after heavy rainfall and snowmelt, massive amounts of water pouring into one canal from the Colorado River overran two dykes and broke the canal’s headworks. Over the next 18 months, despite efforts to stop it, water from the Colorado flowed freely into the massive basin, creating two new rivers, the New and the Alamo, and a freshwater lake, the Salton Sea.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/accidental-creation-salton-sea/
So that’s how it was created. I thought it was a natural lake.
Heh, don’t get yer hopes up too much. The Continental plate is subducting to the Pacific plate ;-p
It’s really piling on Mr. Newsome.
Be prepared.
I’m more interested in those Chocolate Mountains...
The chances are 50/50. Like everything it’s either going to happen or not.
I thought that it was an earthquake that redirected the Colorado river when it filled the basin.
I remember reading about that fifty years ago. Surprising how many do not know American History.
I’m not sure about chocolate, but there’s a Big Rock Candy Mountain...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
It is a cesspool getting worse by the day.
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At one time they were able to make a seaside resort out of it. Too bad they can’t do something to get it back to its glory days. We stopped there once years ago, and there were signs everywhere about diseases you could get from being there. It was gross.
The Mexicans thought the Imperial Valley would be a good place to grow Avocados, they just needed Water, so they a dug a canal to the Colorado river, which Overflowed regularly before we Tamed it
a 1 in 300 chance?
So that’s less than 1% at a 0.33% chance?
Which swarm was that?
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