[NohSpinZone]

Interesting, a dry lake bed is the reason LA hasn't had the Big One yet? Oh and climate change + white supremacy, of course.

[for-q-clinton]

Fill that lake up!

[Antihero101607]

Is there a thermal exhaust port we can exploit?

[George J. Jetso]

Oh no the big one is coming.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

This California landmark may be preventing a major earthquake

This is a dubious theory. Unless the dried-up lake is preventing the movement of tectonic plates, there's going to be an earthquake. In fact, an earthquake drought is probably bad news for California. More pressure has built up over time, which will result in a bigger snap, or quake.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

This theory seems odd. They speak of a 300-year “seismic drought” due to the Salton Sea drying up, yet the Salton Sea didn’t exist for most of that period. I’m confused.

[markman46]

more BS from some phd candidate from SDSU and scrips how sad

[Bullish]

Uh, yeah except the Salton Sea is not a dry lake bed by any means.

[MeganC]

The lake as we know it is only about 100 years old and when it was created it didn’t cause any major quakes.

[Do_Tar]

Look for California to drain all of their now full reservoirs (again) to help stave off the “Big One”.

[hanamizu]

In the 50s the Salton Sea was advertised as a vacation paradise in the desert. Fishing, water skiing, and vacation homes for sale. And then it started drying up and the fish all died from the chemical runoffs. The area around it is now like a ghost town. There are YouTube video tours of what little is left.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Salton Sea was formed in 1905 when irrigation gates on the Colorado River washed out and flooded the basin.

[rottndog]

The Salton Sea was created in 1905...the San Francisco earthquake happened in 1906.

[nickcarraway]

What about the Northridge earthquake?

[AZJeep]

The Salton Sea is quite filled up. Definitely not dry lake at all.
But it is receding!

[ridesthemiles]

There are various “Dry Lake Beds’ all over Calif desert.

[minnesota_bound]

“It’s the weight of the lake on the Earth’s crust,” said Ryley G. Hill...”

The weight is hardly anything as the land itself weighs so much more and is moving as the earth crust is continuously moving due to plate tectonics and the moon.

The water is like a drop to the earth.
Remember the pacific ocean is right there and slamming gigatons of water against the shore every moment along with the moon causing the water to go up and down and slamming against the land.