Earthquakes Throughout California on Wednesday Not Connected, Experts Say

Claremont Patch ^ | May 7, 2015 | Alexander Nguyen

[BenLurkin]

There is no reason to think the several small earthquakes recorded in Northern California and the Inland Empire on Wednesday morning were connected, earthquake experts said in remarks reported Thursday.

Even the three quakes in Riverside County were too far apart to all be linked, the Los Angeles Times reported. The first two, a magnitude-3.7 and -2.7 that struck shortly after midnight, both were traced back to the San Jacinto fault zone. But the third temblor, a magnitude-3.1 near Corona at 9:11 a.m., occurred in a different fault zone.

Scientists are still studying the details of the third earthquake, which occurred near the Elsinore and Whittier faults, Caltech seismologist Jennifer Andrews told The Times. As for the first two, it seemed like business as usual for the San Jacinto fault zone, a major network of faults in Southern California.

[red-dawg]

Earthquakes Throughout California on Wednesday Not Connected, Experts Say

They must not be in the same state - oh wait...

Then they must not be on the same planet....

[Marcella]

“Wish I felt some ithey fascinate the heck out of me”

Don’t think I would like to live on ground that could move at any time. I prefer thinking my house is going to stay where it is - on solid ground. However, my significant other, who is an earth scientist/geologist, picked this place/ground to build this house so I’m pretty sure it’s staying put.

He says ground not far from us has a clay layer and it tends to get squashy when there is lots of rain and he wouldn’t build there even though that is a popular area to live. House owners there do have problems with shifting ground as in the foundations of houses, due to that layer of clay beneath the surface of the first layer of ground.

Maybe you could just visit parts of California to experience an earthquake, then leave.

[BigIsleGal]

As PatBabe said, C’mon over to Hawaii, plenty shaking going on which includes a live volcano which is putting on a great show.

[BigIsleGal]

At least the same solar system, right?

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

[BenLurkin]

[Mike Darancette]

When they say stuff like that it means there is a connection.

[al baby]

We were on the big island a few years ago the crater was venting we walked the black sand beach explored the lava tubes amazing we had a limited time on the island our cruise ship had to rescue the Quatum leap lost 20 hours or so also we missed Maui but 3 weeks later that dam boat we left out there ran aground wait for it ...............on Maui

[Trillian]

There are too many people in either northern or southern California causing it to lift up like a sea saw and have more earthquakes ;)

[JimSEA]

Up here in Oregon, there seems to be a pretty good explanation for some of the relatively small to medium earthquakes we've had off the coast. There's an underwater volcano erupting some 300 miles off the coast. It's. On the Axial Seamount and is being pretty closely watched by Oregon State: "Axial Seamount is unique in that it is one of the few places in the world where a long-term monitoring record exists at an undersea volcano – and we can now make sense of its patterns,” said Chadwick, who works out of Oregon State’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. “We’ve been studying the site for years and the uplift of the seafloor has been gradual and steady beginning in about 2000, two years after it last erupted." So when you are looking for shells on the cold foggy beaches near Newport, just think that one of the small tremors was a wall of the seamount dropping eight feet.