LAFD: ‘Rotten Egg’ Odor Reported Across San Fernando Valley

CBSLA.com) ^ | September 10, 2012 11:13 AM

[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

[winoneforthegipper]

Nope reporting full saturation at acvn...

Amazing but they have their webicorders very senstive because of the action at el hierro...

[winoneforthegipper]

Arizona’s usgs office created this on the swarm at Brawley....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=UU8wP7yOz8_ebyNkSoUGmdSg&v=N5bzBGVp_Eg#!

Interesting is seeing the fore-quakes.

[machogirl]

thanks!

[Errant]

That's really cool! They should overlay the known fault lines.

Have you two noticed that we're now having a M6+ somewhere, practically on a daily basis? That's unheard of...

[winoneforthegipper]

Certainly more active than a few months ago...!

[Errant]

Five days out of seven in the latest list of M5+ from USGS.

Latest Earthquakes M5.0+ in the World - Past 7 days

[Domestic Church]

“Note the plate breakup region above and its relation to the area of least gravity in the potato image.”

I thought the Indian Ocean had the most gravity.

[Errant]

It's VERY confusing. We were discussing a few comments back that it would be interesting to see it in reverse.

The link below may offer a better explanation. Mentioned is the following statement: "What Earth would look like if its shape were altered to make gravity the same everywhere on its surface."

Also from the article: "Areas of strongest gravity are in yellow and weakest in blue."

If you look at it from the point of elevation as in some of their descriptions, I agree it seems reversed.

Goce satellite maps the Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision

[winoneforthegipper]

Let’s see if u and I can get on the same page...

Are you seeing what I am seeing?

http://blavatskyarchives.com/midatlanticridge/4.gif

Then look here...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/World_Distribution_of_Mid-Oceanic_Ridges.gif

Time to revisit the concept of Lemuria?

[winoneforthegipper]

If you follow the ridges...since April's Indian plate quakes and the subsequent theory that the plate is calving....a few things become interesting.

If you follow the ridge line to it's near end points there has been large quakes since april in Jan Mayan, at it's norther extent on the mid atlantic ridge, course up through the red sea. Now the eruption of Nabro becomes even more interesting and of course on the eastern extent of the Pacific rise ending at our most latest quake and of course the action at the very end of the spread at Salton Sea.

Now Errant, take the thought of your gravity maps....and well things begin to get clearer.

Remember as a kid when we got a brand new coated rubber baseball. How clean and fresh the covering was until you either squeezed it or hit it with a wiffle ball bat. The cracks would appear and transverse it's surface area. The more you played with it the more diffuse the cracks would become on the surface coat and eventually lead to actually cracking of the rubber.

I am thinking that theoretically the process of up-heaving and subduction at times can be quicker than Millenniums....more to come!

[winoneforthegipper]

Which leads me back to the ultimate destruction of the Farallon under our feet.

The Cocos plate along with Juan de Fuca are last remaining festiges of the Farallon. looking at the ridge map one can easily draw a conclusion that if I am right and that the remaining farralon under central and eastern United States is being consumed much more rapidly than previously thought....then well that action may indeed be caused by this new plate forming. It would also explain handsomely the increased intensity and frequency all along the area thought to riding that subducted farallon.

So...given this I am even more convinced that the USA east of the rockies is still in a prime stress zone. As well as the Salton sea area.

[winoneforthegipper]

Just as an aside....

YOU will find this IRIS map quite interesting.

http://www.iris.edu/hq/iris_workshop2012/scihi/WebPages/0110.html

The new ARRAY system is rocking it....!

[Errant]

Are you seeing what I am seeing?

I'm pretty sure I am! It's going to take time and a few cups of coffee to grasp enough to be able respond coherently... lol

I am thinking that theoretically the process of up-heaving and subduction at times can be quicker than Millenniums....

I completely agree with your idea of subduction being quicker at times, and I think we're seeing pumping instead of convection. Instead of the plates being "dragged", I suggest plates are being pushed apart by this pumping action; how fast depends upon how powerful the pump and/or the characteristics of the material being pumped.

Those subduction tails should also create interesting conditions for the locale where they exist. I think this action action is a global phenomenon.

But I like this idea of combining our theories to find a link. ;)

[winoneforthegipper]

Wow...motherload of info here....!

http://beagle.ceri.memphis.edu/people/cliang1/publications/ccnz.ena.vgroup.11012007.pdf

[winoneforthegipper]

From that IRIS link I gave you...the ARRAY is already providing clues to the eastern us not even conceived of....and lends supports to the farallon though not mentioned....! here is the quote from that link!

We show that a thermal plume-like upwelling interacting with the base of the continental lithosphere can produce the requisite seismic signal. A Late Cretaceous kimberlite in Kentucky, dated 75 Ma, pins a hotspot track that bends NE in Virginia. Seismic data indicates that the lower lithospheric anomaly along this NE segment is even stronger than the EW segment, supporting such a hypothesis.

[Errant]

Like any conspiracy nut, I say somewhere there are scientists working for the NSF, behind the ARRAY project, that know a lot more than they're releasing...

It's going to help unleash a lot of knowledge of what's really happening below our feets!

[winoneforthegipper]

This is freakin awesome....another capture from the ARRAY...!

http://www.iris.edu/hq/iris_workshop2012/scihi/WebPages/0014.html

[winoneforthegipper]

Exactly....check the link I just posted!....wow

[Errant]

Have you ran across any good subduction line maps? Btw, That’s a big PDF. Downloading now... :)

[winoneforthegipper]

U can thank me in the morning....ten years from now...lol

http://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~dkilb/EarthScope/EarthScope/Project_Overview.html

click the links to magic!