Earthquake Swarm Southern California

15 Responses to Earthquake Swarm Southern California

1. Steve Hollar says:

   August 27, 2012 at 1:57 pm

   I’m very glad I moved from Southern California three months ago. I think Ohio is far enough away.
   • John says:

     August 27, 2012 at 4:38 pm

     Wait till winter!!
2. Miguel says:

   August 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

   The NY Times reported today that Arctic sea ice just hit a record low, with another month of melting yet to come. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/science/earth/sea-ice-in-arctic-measured-at-record-low.html?_r=2&smid=fb-share

   This does not bode well. Just a month ago I was reading about the heavy sea ice blocking ports in the Canadian Arctic and an increase in sea ice extent. If the Times article is accurate, it may mean the ice was much thinner than usual this spring. I can only wonder if the Arctic warming is from subsea vulcanism, since it appears much of the rest of the world is experiencing below-normal temperatures.
3. Murray says:

   August 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm

   Remember the movie “Volcano” with Tommy Lee Jones? (A series of earthquakes in southern california leads up to the formation of a new volcano in Los Angeles.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/
   • Billsocal says:

     August 30, 2012 at 12:41 pm

     Yea I’ve been wonder is there another volcano in So Cal that so called experts don’t know about. Is it becoming active since swarms of earthquakes are linked to volcanic activity. The talking heads on TV wouldn’t even say anything if it is true. Just like they are awful quiet about the thunderstorm that have happening around Barstow.
4. John the 1st says:

   August 27, 2012 at 3:55 pm

   Did Piers Corbyn predict any of this?
5. KellyJ says:

   August 27, 2012 at 5:01 pm

   This is a recurring pattern. Every few decades the section of the San Andreas near Brawley pops off for a dew days…lots of 2.5s and below and a couple of 4.5-5.5s. Then it goes quiet for a long time. This is actually a pretty good thing since it constantly relieves stress on the fault and prevents the really bad 6.5+ quakes that tear things up.
6. John says:

   August 27, 2012 at 7:36 pm

   So are swarms signs of magma movement or just land slipping?
7. ES says:

   August 27, 2012 at 9:20 pm

   Daily Quake: Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits El Salvador; tsunami warning issued

   http://climaterealists.com/?id=10135
8. laurel says:

   August 28, 2012 at 3:55 am

   whats most concerning here is the fact they are Shallow, close to surface. and while prior ecvents may tail off, I wonder what depth the past events were?
   the entire world map yesterday was unusual for one thing..
   ALL the quakes -though many less globally, were higher magnitudes than I am used to seeing.
   there was also a 5+ just off the indian coast as I was watching, that hasnt hit media reports either.
   also two reasonably big ones right down near Antarctic, that could snap some ice.
   no great moment except the warmists will be all over it for warmist hype:-)
9. Howard says:

   August 28, 2012 at 7:46 am

   Small quakes releaving stress is an old belief… The energy released from Small or even moderate quakes are but a very small fraction to large events….
10. KellyJ says:

    August 28, 2012 at 7:48 am

    John: just landslip. Our plates in SoCal slide past each other. Up in NorCal, Oregon, Washington they have the Juan de Fuca plate subducting under the N.A plate. This creates the volcanoes (Ranier, St. Helens, Shasta, etc) and also can produce a magnitude 8-9 every few hundred years (same mechanism as the Japan and Indonesia quakes).
11. Perdavid Nygren says:

    August 28, 2012 at 10:32 am

    I hear in the northern europe news about tropical storm Isaac Ad Nauseam, such hysteria! “Will New Orleans survive?” Ha! Whatever happened to the “stronger than Katrina hurricanes”?! The AGW theory is dead!
12. igor says:

    August 28, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    As long as earths core surrounded by magma produces our magnetosphere by spinning,it is basically a car alternator which produces electrical current in unlimited amps.. to shield life on this fragile oblate spheroid. Earthquakes will continue as long as earths guts do not go solid,the moon and mars possibly had working cores which still give off electro magnetic remnant energy. I never exclude some kind of external power in control of our 3rd rock,my belief, God.Anway,I know there is a theory with so many stars,that one planet will be in the” goldy locks”orbit of life existing zone,but as a backyard heavy reader of science…when earthquakes discontinue on earth for good,then our earth core stops protecting life of all the electro wave lenghts of death…gama,micro etc, from the sun,its a paradox. Life will be done for good on earth, when our earth core stops producing repelling sub atomic electrical waves, against our sun…time is over for us all. We are all scraping away not wondering what it was all for but rest assure if lifes an accident,then everything is a waste of time.
13. Duster says:

    August 31, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    What is interesting is that the tremors are tightly clustered – 139 in the near vicinity of Brawley near the southern end of the Salton Sea. Few people know that there is an obsidian flow on the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea, not that far from this cluster of little shakers.