Earthquake Advisory Issued For Southern California After Salton Sea Quake Swarm

[Baclava]

Source: CBS

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A swarm of earthquakes that rattled the Salton Sea area earlier this week has increased the probability of a major quake hitting Southern California.

The California Office of Emergency Services (OES) issued an earthquake advisory warning residents and officials in Ventura, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Kern and Imperial counties that there was a greater possibility of a major earthquake through Oct. 4.

More than 140 seismic events have been recorded near Bombay Beach beginning Monday ranging from magnitude 1.4 to 4.3, according to U.S. Geological Services (USGS) seismologists. The swarm occurred in a region known as the Brawley seismic zone, which is located near a fault network that connects the southernmost end of the San Andreas fault with the Imperial fault.

According to the USGS, preliminary data indicated a roughly one percent chance of a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake being triggered on the Southern San Andreas fault within the next seven days “with the likelihood decreasing over time.”



Read more: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/09/30/earthquake-advisory-issued-for-southern-california-after-salton-sea-quake-swarm/

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Don't see this warning every day...how do you "prepare" for a 1% chance for an earthquake?

Oh, The Big One fear





Carry on

[woodsprite]

1. Can't really prepare for the earthquake, but sure can try to prepare for the aftermath.

http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m4240216_Earthquake.pdf

[DFW]

2. Time to discover a burning desire to attend the Oktoberfest in Bavaria

And then take a week to sleep it off............

[smirkymonkey]

25. Sounds like fun! I have only been once, but it was a great time.

Those massive steins of beer sneak up on you!

[DFW]

30. Not on me, they don't!

I have always hated beer. I hate the smell, the taste, the stench of dried beer residue, everything about it.
I will never understand why people drink beer for any other reason than that they have a gun to their head and a terrorist saying, "drink it or I'll add your grey matter to the wallpaper!"

But I accept that I am in the minority, and that the mystery is something that only I seem to fail to grasp. My daughters seem to think I have a drastic defect in my genetic make-up, and are most relieved to find that they suffer from no such missing gene.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Consider yourself lucky!

It's fun in the beginning, but the day after is a nightmare.

[DFW]

33. So I've been told

I'm content to take other people's word for it

[mnhtnbb]

3. California is long overdue for a big one.

It will happen one day...without warning...and the only thing you can do is be prepared for the aftermath.

[olddad56]

22. I have lived in nothern California all my life and have never experienced an Earthquake ...

near enough to me to do any damage. That is 68 years. There have been a few big ones, but none that effected me. Floods are a bigger concern for me.

[mnhtnbb]

23. I was a student at UCLA in 1971 when my roommate and I were awakened around 6 am

by shaking and shaking and shaking. We both thought it was the end of the world.

It turned out to be the Sylmar quake of 6.6 magnitude.

The biggest seismic jolt in 80 years struck the northeast San Fernando Valley before dawn — flattening freeway overpasses, collapsing hospitals, toppling power stations, sparking fires and threatening to burst dams and flood the homes of tens of thousands.

When the dust cleared on the 1971 Sylmar-San Fernando earthquake 45 years ago Tuesday, 64 people lay dead and more than 2,500 lay injured beneath more than $550 million in rubble

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20160208/sylmar-san-fernando-earthquake-45-years-ago-tuesday-64-killed

Fifteen years later I was working as staff to the more than 200 member Hospital Council of Southern California (now Hospital Association of Southern California http://www.hasc.org/ ). One of the functions of the trade association group was to get the hospitals
thinking critically about how to coordinate when/if the Big One hit that would cause disruption and damage to the entire emergency medical system in the southern California area.

It will happen one of these days. In our lifetime? Who knows?

[randome]

4. Shit! You remember what happened the last time the Salton Sea was disturbed, don't you?

(Yeah, I paid attention when I was growing up. So what?)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[Brother Buzz]

7. Don't worry, the mad professor, Hans Conried, will save us

[Baclava]

24. nice

monsters - they always go after the women

[revmclaren]

34. Trump proves that point!

[Baclava]

35. heh heh

good one!

[Lebam in LA]

5. I just hope that I am not at work

I work on the 22nd (top) floor on Wilshire Blvd. Fault runs right down Wilshire Blvd. Much rather be at home when it hits

[Auggie]

15. I used to keep a few supplies at hand at my San Francisco office

One thing building management suggested was to keep a pair of ankle-height hiking boots at work becuase there could be so much glass surrounding the building you might be trapped inside until it was cleared.

[Lebam in LA]

19. I do keep supplies in my office but didn't think about hiking boots

I have sneakers in my office and car and my kit at home is good for about 3 months. Boots are a great idea, thanks.

I worry more about being trapped in the building.

[Auggie]

20. I was in high-rise during the Loma Prieta quake in 1989

We had to evacuate via the emergency staircase which was spooky as hell -- very tight/claustrophobic and no lighting. We had enough daylight coming from the open doors on each floor that we could see enough to walk though. No glass on the street, fortunately. Then I had to walk home from downtown San Francisco -- no buses.

You sound well-prepared.

[hardluck]

21. Agree

I'm on the 49th floor DTLA. Rather be home with family and my supplies if this happens.

[Lebam in LA]

38. Oh crap, I thought 22 was bad

I hope we are both home

[still_one]

6. You make sure that you have taken all appropriate earthquate precautions, which include

securing your water heater, bookshelves, etc., insuring you have emergency supplies, water, know where the gas and water shutoff values are, plus know all the recommended procedures to follow during an earthquake.

Not much else you can do unless you want to move away from the area

[Auggie]

8. ^ this ^

[Warpy]

9. I hope not

but there has been a huge swarm at both ends of the fault in the US, at Salton Sea and up in Alaska.

Either stress is being relieved by a bunch of little ones or the fault is preparing itself for The Big One. I hope it's not the latter.

If it is the latter, I hope it happens when everyone is awake and alert and able to get outside fast.

[roamer65]

41. With all the movement elsewhere on the Pacific Plate...

I have to think the stress on the San Andreas is massive right now.

It hasn't moved much to correct it.

[Iliyah]

10. Thanks!

[Baclava]

12. Just in case anybody wanted to, you know, take a quick vacation to Idaho, or somewhere

And hey, at least the swarm isn't happening under Yellowstone Lake...that would be not good either.

[ripcord]

11. Isn't Oldcella coming up soon?

[Baclava]

13. Desert Trip

[ripcord]

14. That is what I said, Oldcella

[Baclava]

16. That would be some 'end of the world' party

if the zipper opens up

[ripcord]

17. If there is a large earthquake

Will there be enough handicapped access to get all the the wheelchairs and walkers out of that concert quickly?

[Baclava]

18. Old people bring their own bottled beverages - they will survive n/t

[smirkymonkey]

26. Holy crap!

That is terrifying!

[Baclava]

29. yep

[LonePirate]

27. The one weekend I decide to head to CA for a long weekend vacation, this happens.

[joeybee12]

28. stay safe. all our friends in SoCal..knr

[TeamPooka]

31. K & R nt

[oioioi]

36. The San Diego Union Tribune just endorsed Clinton...

Hell is apparently freezing over.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

37. Cripes, that's a shit-ton of magenta bubbles

[C Moon]

39. Geothermal energy plant near the Salton Sea

I was looking to see if any fracking goes on near the Salton Sea (I wouldn't doubt it), but I found this article instead:

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/11/200515289/wastewater-wells-geothermal-power-triggering-earthquakes

"The power plant in question, near Southern California's Salton Sea, extracts hot water from beneath Earth's surface and turns it to steam to make electricity, then returns most of it underground. "What we found," Brodsky says, "is that the earthquake rate correlates quite strongly with the extraction of water from the field" underground.

On average, extracting half a billion gallons of water per month resulted in one detectable earthquake every 11 days.

Now, scientists have known that geothermal power plants cycling water from underground can cause small quakes. But Brodsky's research actually matches the amount of water moved to the frequency of the quakes.

These quakes are very small, she notes. But it concerns her that the geothermal plant she studied is near the southern tip of California's San Andreas fault — the source of many of the state's biggest temblors. "We ought to know what's happening on the southernmost terminus of the San Andreas fault," she says. "Of various places in the world to induce earthquakes, this is a particularly sensitive one."

[roamer65]

40. Messing around with groundwater near a major tectonic boundary is a bad idea. N/t

[sherlocksistah]

42. fracking is a big problem for quakes!

especially for Oklahoma and Texas where USGS proclaims that fracking has been the cause of many of the quakes in these states.

[Kablooie]

43. I'm all prepared.

belted into my car, sitting in the middle of an empty expanse of desert with a bottle of water and a Snickers bar. Let'er rip!

[question everything]

44. Scary, though (nt)