A series of large earthquakes has rattled California over the last 24 hours, and scientists are telling us that the shaking was the result of “movement along the San Andreas Fault system”. In recent months there has been an alarming amount of seismic activity all along “the Ring of Fire”, and there have been times when the number of global earthquakes has been way above normal. Could it be possible that all of this unusual seismic activity is leading up to something? As you will see below, experts are telling us that we are overdue for the “Big One” to hit California. And when it does eventually strike, it could be far worse than most people would dare to imagine.
Most of the 39 significant earthquakes that have struck California within the last 24 hours have happened along the San Andreas Fault. The following comes from CBS News…
A swarm of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault, the largest measuring a 4.1 magnitude, rumbled through the Hollister area and the Salinas Valley Friday morning. CBS San Francisco, citing officials, reports the quakes rattled nerves but caused no major damage.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 4.1 quake hit at 5:58 a.m. PDT 12 miles southwest of the small community of Tres Pinos. It was followed by quakes measuring 3.6, 3.2 and 3.0.
Officials are saying that this shaking was caused by “movement along the San Andreas Fault system”, and the initial magnitude 4.1 quake was quickly followed by a series of more than 20 aftershocks…
After a magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck 12 miles from Hollister at 5:58 a.m., more than 20 aftershocks rattled the area in the following hours. The smaller quakes registered as high as 3.6 magnitude and were felt as far away as Monterey and Santa Cruz.
When you live in an area that sits along a major earthquake fault, it can be easy to forget the potential danger if nothing happens for an extended period of time.
But the danger is always there, and for many California residents the rattling that we witnessed on Friday was a clear reminder of that fact.
Thankfully, these earthquakes did not cause substantial damage, but local residents were definitely shaken up…
Hopefully this current shaking will fizzle out and things will go back to normal.
But experts tell us that California is definitely overdue for a major earthquake and that “the Big One” will happen at some point…
- The bubbling geyser that has existed since 1953 now moving at speeds of up to 60 feet a day
- Experts say it behaves like an 'sunken sinkhole' as it moves across the area near Salton sea
- Union Pacific Railroad has already had to move tracks because of it after attempts to build a wall failed
- A portion of Highway 111, a major roadway, may have to be closed as the geyser approaches
- Local authorities have already declared the geyser an emergency and are drawing up contingency plans
It is the beginning of the San Andreas fault, where experts fear 'The Big One' could begin.
But a small, bubbling pool of mud that stinks of rotting eggs near the Salton Sea is causing concern.
Dubbed 'the slow one', experts studying the phenomenon say it is similar to a 'moving sinkhole' - and is speeding up, destroying everything in its path.
Imperial County officials studying the muddy spring say it has has been increasing in speed through - first 60 feet over a few months, and then 60 feet in a single day.
This natural-occurring geyser has been in existence since 1953, but recently began moving. It is releasing water and carbon dioxide.
However, was only in the last six months that it picked up enough speed that it began to pose a threat to man-made infrastructure.
Earlier this year, local officials declared it an emergency as it approached railroad tracks.
'It's a slow-moving disaster,' Alfredo Estrada, Imperial County's fire chief and emergency services coordinator, told the LA Times.
'In the past 11 years, the geyser has moved slowly however recently the rate of movement has increased and has been encroaching on the railroad,' the County of Imperial said in a statement.
The County of Imperial made the first emergency declaration on June 26 as it began moving towards the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) railroad tracks, SR -111, and buried utilities in the area.
It has already forced Union Pacific Railroads to move their trains to alternate tracks.
It has been traveling much like a moving sinkhole, with carbon dioxide bubbling up from a pool in a ditch, with the mud about 30 feet and 40 feet below the desert surface.
The spring in question is actually only about 80 degrees Fahrenheit, but bubbles from the CO2 being released.
The area is at the end of the San Andreas fault
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