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
Yea, I would be packing my bags. Sounds like discharge from fault lines. It’s the only explanation.
We're finally getting the real picture of what's behind the dynamics.
LOL!
Open a manhole lid and test the sulfur dioxide levels then you will know.
They are doing lots of research on stress loading and subsequent sympathy quakes..to think how many times I was taken to the woodshed over believing in that concept...lol
http://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~dkilb/EarthScope/EarthScope/SCEC_2012_files/poster_ES_SCEC_2012_FINAL.pdf
It’s certainly something to see if it keeps plotting along!
That outline the subduction zones?
Yeah, something simple.
Call me crazy but I always thought California would break away someday from the United States
Actually it would be the east coast that is on a continous sinking track....
Thank God for the new commerce of ideas brought about by the internet. No wonder the "elite", - not, are looking for ways to control it.
Lead the way! ;)
Thanks for the kind words...and the best map I got...!
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/images/plateTectonics.jpg
Oh wouldnt that be great if DC “broke off”. lol
Darn dry spells...lol
thanks. so much to ponder. looking at the abc quake cam and for the last twelve hours or so (it looks like they tightened up the lines again), but, there is a lot of gurgling going on.
Yeah I just was on that site...I saw what you were talking about.
ERrant,
Ha ha....just found the USARRAY data on the farallon! PDF and it’s huge but I would love to know your conclusions!
http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/fouch/publications/papers/2012_Pavlis_Tecto.pdf
Yellowstone...not a hotspot but the subduction border of the Juan de Fuca?
Wow this ARRAY thing is changing the whole science....!
http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/fouch/publications/papers/2012_Fouch_Geology.pdf
NOte in 2009 the plans to investigate a weak zone along the Piedmont...
I'm having information overload here!
Yellowstone...not a hotspot but the subduction border
Yeah, and have you noticed the consistent activity around the Puerto Rico area for months and months now? Also, all other border areas, the Southwestern coast of Mexico, Fiji, the Philippines, Greece, Iran, the Sandwich Islands have been experiencing increased activity!
Maybe something similar is taking place in the Salton Sea area?
And it wouldn't surprise me for any weakness West of the Piedmont area, eventually developing into some type of calving as reported taking place in the Northern Australia/India plate! Hopefully after we're not around, lol, even for the beginnings of such!!
As to the weakness, along the spines of the Appalachians...it's interesting that the Virginia quake happened before we got a chance to map it with the ARRAY because I would have love to have known the stress level there. Also the fact they had the area targeted...
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