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.
Its 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 thats school by school.
Residents do not need to call 911 to report the odor unless they are experiencing a medical emergency, Humphrey said
Dude, that’s BRIMSTONE. From you know where...
Who me? I only wish I had the time! LOL
Is that a photo of the source of the “Rotten Egg Oder?”
LOL!
Don't tell anyone, I like him too... ;)
lol, the seismo is still jiggling like jello on a plate.
MAP 4.8 2012/09/26 00:17:55 24.637 -110.346 9.8 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 2012/09/26 00:05:30 24.510 -110.270 10.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.2 2012/09/25 23:45:26 24.835 -110.152 10.1 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
It is. A lot of mid size quakes lately. That seismo-paper looks like one big smudge today. Something looks like it’s boiling.
It will be interesting to see if this clears up the seismograph....?
When you get a chance could u post that earth image you have that clearly shows the actual shape?
AS for the ARRAY charts.....oh come on that stuff is way over my head....lol
The link to the seismic array crashes my max'd Dell 830 IE at about 1100 stations loaded out of the 5596. So, I went to the HQ page and have to tell ya, I'm impressed! Boggles my mind with possibilities for displaying what's going on with the earth, geologically. NSF funding with deep pockets - I wonder why?
What have you learnt so far? Shoot me a PM if you need to. ;)
Maybe it's time to find time. Who can resist the BIG picture?!
Thanks!
bfl - I need to bookmark that on another machine.
As for the Array....neophyte would not adequately describe the limited knowledge I have of using the system.
However....it is highly impressive. I read all the instructional that's available save for a few pdf’s I came across but I have yet to find tutoring on the exact charts that IRIS are using...lol
Note the plate breakup region above and its relation to the area of least gravity in the potato image.
Yeah....seems to me gravity is certainly the key or at least a key to tectonic movement!
Thanks for the ping!
I just had a thought that it would be interesting to see the gravity image in reverse, so that the areas of least gravity appear as high points and high gravity areas appear as darker, lower areas. :)
Yeah that would be perfect...would be much easier to compare to recent and potentially future quakes...@!
Thank you for that! Fascinating.
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