“I just checked it out. It is located at the Southern end of the Salton Sea. The have geothermal activity in the area which I new about. I just did not realize the area was a volcano.”
The Salton sea is located at the beginning of the San Andreas fault and San Jacinto fault zone. With all the seismic activity in Hawaii connected with the eruption, could either a massive earthquake trigger an eruption or an eruption trigger a massive earthquake in the area?
Almost always, local earthquakes and seismic activity precedes an eruption as the lava mass goes up into the volcano itself. These are usually hundredds and hundreds of smaller earthquakes clustered under the volcano. Could the opposite happen: A large earthquake at the junction of two faults trigger new breaks that let a magma mass rise up into an old volcano?
Seems likely.