"'Scuse me!"
Posted on 03/03/2013 3:21:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — Authorities say a foul odor that spurred calls to fire departments throughout the city on Sunday is possibly the result of the large release of methane in the Santa Monica Bay.
Santa Monica Fire said in a department statement that they believe the strong odor was caused by a naturally occurring methane leak below the ocean floor.
“This morning there was a large release of natural ocean floor methane released in the Santa Monica Bay,” the statement said. “This methane is not toxic and dissipates quickly.”
Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the Air Quality Management District (AQMD), said his agency has not confirmed that theory.
Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, said the odor was noted inland from the Santa Monica Bay.
Last September, a widespread sulfurous stench that blanketed parts of the Southland was apparently traced back to a biological occurrence on the landlocked Salton Sea.
The government needs to DO SOMETHING!!
Link to the earlier stench story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2929130/posts
SoCal ping
Release of methane:
AlGore is on a boat off the coast?
He who smelt it, dealt it.
So.... LA farted?
"'Scuse me!"
Methane is odorless. Sulfur dioxide, a component of natural gas or swamp gas. Do reporters ever get anything right?
michael moore swimming again? if it’s not a nayural release it could have mercaptan added for the smell
Have they put out the tsunami warnings, yet?
The methane bubble wells up off Redondo Beach from time to time. I live in Torrance, right next door. One day I noticed a natural gas smell and also that the gas stove flames were higher and more active, somehow. I called the Gas Co. and was told about the bubble. The Gas Co. had enough calls that they could track its movement by noting the location and timing of the households that had called them.
So, yeah. The ocean passes gas from time to time.
Is Michelle perhaps vacationing in the area?
Santa Monica Bay farted?
Was Moochelle in the area today?
Pure methane is odorless. In nature it is very seldom pure.
OK Florida has sinkholes and Cal has gas.
Maybe flyover country isn’t so bad after all....
Actually, if the source is biological it’s more likely to be H2S than SO2.
Though there are a number of sulfur gases and none of them smell nice.
Just watched a show about the Permian Mass Extinction when 90% of all life on Earth was killed, allegedly by methane releases from the sea floor...
Just watched a show about the Permian Mass Extinction when 90% of all life on Earth was killed, allegedly by methane releases from the sea floor...
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