Posted on 09/10/2012 2:31:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Authorities on Monday investigated widespread reports of a foul odor detected across the San Fernando Valley.
Shortly after 5:00 a.m., a “rotten egg-type” smell was reported “widely across (and possibly beyond) the north San Fernando Valley and Foothill communities of Los Angeles”, according to Brian Humphrey with the Los Angeles Fire Department.
No illnesses or any specific hazard has been associated with the odor, Humphrey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.
The sulfur-type odor — which Humphrey said “appears to be organic in nature” — had been reported as far west as Simi Valley and as far east as Cathedral City and Perris in Riverside County.
While officials worked to investigate the source of the smell, officials did acknowledge the smell could be affecting a wider swath of Southern California.
Stephen Harrison with the National Weather Service office in San Diego told KNX 1070′s Vytas Safronikas that whatever the source or sources of sulphuric odor, wind currents have been moving in an east to west direction from the Salton Sea into parts of the Greater Los Angeles area.
“It’s always possible to get some kind of odor coming from the Salton Sea up through the Coachella Valley through the Banning Pass and into the Inland Empire,” said Harrison.
Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Monica Carazzo said the odor is affecting schedules at some local schools, including Osceola Street Elementary.
“Some schools are implementing a rainy day schedule, meaning that once kids get their lunch, they go inside of the classroom, recesses are inside, that type of thing,” said Carazzo. “But that’s school by school.”
Residents do not need to call 911 to report the odor unless they are experiencing a medical emergency, Humphrey said
FWIW, I’ve lived in the area since the early 80s.
When the Salton Sea inversion hits, many fish die off and rot on the beach, but the smell/odor IMHO is distinct from what we recently experienced.
IMHO, it was much closer to burnt matches or a red phosphorus smell.
FWIW Methane is odorless, but other odors associated with sewers, such as H2S also are bothersome. Some many have been involved.
The fish kill may have been due to gas release, as opposed to the fish die off a generation of the gas release.
mark
Interesting observations. Thank you. :)
Thanks. We get that frequently here in the valley (of the sun and heat) during the Monsoon dust storms.
I haven’t watched the whole thing yet. It was posted as a headline on “Before it’s News” like this, “Huge Volcanic Steam Plume Eruption In Southern California !!”. I was reading about the new swarm today in the Canary Islands at El Hierro and just below that, the headline. It was a “what?” moment for me.
thanks again
Seems similar to this story:
“Breaking: Dormant Mojave Desert Volcano Is Dormant”
by Chris Clarke
on August 3, 2011 11:00 AM
This month’s breaking news from the Central Mojave: The Pisgah Crater, a cinder cone two miles south of Interstate 40 near Ludlow, California that has likely been dormant for at least 20,000 years, is not erupting.
That’s right: not erupting. The US Geological Survey has even issued a press statement to that effect, after two agency geologists were interviewed by local press. Why? Because a fellow going by the name of Dutch Sinse, a conspiracy buff far from the Mojave Desert, viewed NEXRAD doppler radar videos of what would seem to be monsoonal storm cells and declared them to be “volcanic plumes” — an eruption, of sorts, in progress.
Sinse, who generally writes about alleged tampering with weather by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), has a significant following on his blog and YouTube channel. Here’s the video in which Sinse announces the eruption:http://www.youtube.com/embed/7X9-pV67DvU
In the video, Sinse states that the “plume” cannot possibly be a wildfire, in part because there have been no news reports of wildfires in the area. (The similar lack of news reports on volcanic eruptions two miles off Interstate 40 escapes mention.)
lol, thanks. i love the headline of the story.
Does anyone have an idea why the abc7 LA quake cam has been down? (at least a day for me)
thanks
As for the stench being a magmatic source...yeah I would think not, however in a way it is connected to it...lol
thanks gipper
Oddly enough a sulfur-type odor was also reported in the Monterey Bay area today.
Coincidence?
Oxnard.
You smelled it there too?
lol
The calm before the storm. Never know. I noticed a small one close to Parkfield this week. Guess “Planet X” or “Niribu” didn’t trigger the doom. The stretch is a bendy kind of fault.
Do you think that the USGS withholds information or downgrades the quake numbers? Just asking.
No.
Looking at the abc7 seismo for the last day, esp. today, it sure is grouchy. non-stop minor rumbling. Any thoughts?
I look for it to get worse. How bad? Bad enough to contribute to the start of an overdue ice-age.
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