Earthquake swarm near the Salton Sea

USGS ^ | 08/26/2012

[BenLurkin]

Keep getting bigger.

Unusual.

[Graewoulf]

Is this going to be blamed on Gov. Jerry Brown?

Example: Why is California the way it is? “It’s Brown’s Fault.”

[BulletBobCo]

Magnitude 7.4 - offshore EL SALVADOR
about 20 minutes ago.

[machogirl]

did they recalibrate the live cam at abc. USGS is giving large readings which showed up earlier and now that same 4 pointers are just blank lines on the live cam?

[Mike Darancette]

Yes but the >4.0 are getting more frequent.

[Doomonyou]

[machogirl]

check out the live cam now

[CedarDave]

Damn big one right now!!

[machogirl]

usgs behind

[machogirl]

they need some more ink. it almost looks like a cloud.

[machogirl]

this is NOT on USGS yet, then what the heck was it if not an earthquake?

[machogirl]

up by nevada apparently. could be why it looked so different.

[CedarDave]

USGS now has it as a 5.2 in the Gulf of California.

[bd476]

Breaking News:

Magnitude 7.4 - OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR

2012 August 27 04:37:23 UTC

Earthquake Details

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude	7.4
Date-Time	Monday, August 27, 2012 at 04:37:23 UTC Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 10:37:23 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	12.279°N, 88.530°W
Depth	52.9 km (32.9 miles)
Region	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
Distances	111 km (68 miles) S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador 118 km (73 miles) S of Usulutan, El Salvador 123 km (76 miles) S of San Rafael Oriente, El Salvador 133 km (82 miles) S of Santiago de Maria, El Salvador
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 16.5 km (10.3 miles); depth +/- 8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Parameters	NST=362, Nph=362, Dmin=130.2 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp=115°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usc000c7yw

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Regarding the current unusual California earthquake swarm :

Dr. Lucy Jones, USGS Seismologist said that there had not been a swarm like this since the 70s and before that the 30s. It will take them a day or two to get a better read on this unusual swarm because the earth is a different soil, different mix which makes it difficult to get an accurate reading.

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. . . "What we're seeing is a classic Brawley seismic swarm,'' USGS seismologist Lucy Jones told City News Service. "We haven't seen one of these since the 1970s, and there was another one back in the 1930s.''

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Jones said USGS seismographs and analysis computers were overwhelmed by the rash of rattling that began at sunrise, and reached a crescendo with a magnitude 5.3 quake just after 12:30 p.m. It was followed by a 4.9 shaker within two minutes.

"Our system is choking on so many earthquakes,'' Jones said. "This area of California is deep soils, and we do not get as precise data as we do over the rest of the state, and that makes our data a little less precise.''

Moderate Earthquakes Rock San Diego County Sunday, August 26, 2012 By KPBS and City News Service

[Jack Hydrazine]

“The buttes are 120 miles, 140 if you drive it, from Imperial Beach. Not in the same neighborhood at all. (roughly the same distance, though in a different direction, that Los Angeles would be.)”

The Salton Buttes are a group of five small lava domes in the lower Coachella Valley, in Imperial County, California. The Salton Buttes domes are on the southeast shoreline of the Salton Sea and are associated with the Salton Sea geothermal field within the Salton Trough (Salton Sink).[1] They are on the north margin of the Brawley seismic zone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Buttes

[Ingtar]

Ping so I can find this in the morning.

[CedarDave]

KABC just changed the chart.

[CedarDave]

KABC just changed the chart.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/livenow?id=7367462

[bd476]

We lost power around 3:00 p.m. for about 30 seconds which was a little unnerving because there was no shaking here while the News was discussing the swarm.

[ThomasThomas]

I think I felt one about 2 o’clock I am about 135 NNE of there. This must have something to do with Mecca.

[ThomasThomas]

I think I felt one about 2 o’clock I am about 135 NNE of there. This must have something to do with Mecca.