WARNINGS: EARTHQUAKE SWARMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Hi Everybody:
As Weather is the number one talked about subject in the world, I am wondering if anyone remembers when we once complained about how hot it was or how cold. Those were really the only choices back in the good old days!
This year of 2012 has brought many surprises with extreme weather and disastrous events. Record Highs, Record Droughts, Record Food Crop Loss, Record Floods, Record Polar Ice Cap Melt, Record Greenland Ice Melt, Record Hurricanes and/or Typhoons and now Record Earthquake Swarm in California among record Quakes around the World. This July and now August will never be considered the 'normal' dog days of summer.
Is anybody else asking the Question WHY? What is causing the drastic events worldwide? Are we seeing the predicted scenario of Global Warming?
Yes, it appears we are living every one of them so far. Somehow, effects are being realized at a faster rate than most of the Scientists had predicted for the Inconvenient Truth.
What is making Our Earth Quaking and Shaking all over?
Is Earth under the influence of gravitational forces from the inconvenient Nibiru X/Whatever that is here from 8-17 to 9-26??
Have Solar Storms penetrated the Magnetic Shield due to all the holes? Is this what is baking the Earth?
Where are all my birds, butterflies and bees? All I have left here is mosquitoes with the west nile virus.
Tonight, I am safe at my location in the Gulf Coast as the Hurricane hits New Orleans at high tide, with almost full moon, and high waves in shallow water.
This is not a good night for anyone there. This is not a good night for anyone shaking and quaking in California. Please join me in Prayer for all who are having a bad night and join me in Thanks if You are having a good night.
The following is information for California:
The following Article about the San Andreas Fault is from Wikipedia at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault
San Andreas Fault
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 810 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateralstrike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The fault was first identified in Northern California by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas. After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Lawson also discovered that the San Andreas Fault stretched southward into southern California. Large-scale (hundreds of miles) lateral movement along the fault was first proposed in a 1953 paper by geologists Mason Hill and Thomas Dibblee.[1]
Segments of the Fault
The San Andreas Fault can be divided into three segments.
[edit]Southern segment
The southern segment (known as the Mojave segment) begins near Bombay Beach, California. Box Canyon, near the Salton Sea, contains upturned strata resulting from that section of the fault.[2] The fault then runs along the southern base of the San Bernardino Mountains, crosses through the Cajon Pass and continues to run northwest along the northern base of the San Gabriel Mountains. These mountains are a result of movement along the San Andreas Fault and are commonly called the Transverse Range. In Palmdale, a portion of the fault is easily examined as a roadcut for the Antelope Valley Freeway runs directly through it.
After crossing through Frazier Park, the fault begins to bend northward. This area is referred to as the "Big Bend" and is thought to be where the fault locks up in Southern California as the plates try to move past each other. This section of the fault has an earthquake-recurrence interval of roughly 140–160 years. Northwest of Frazier Park, the fault runs through theCarrizo Plain, a long, treeless plain within which much of the fault is plainly visible. The Elkhorn Scarp defines the fault trace along much of its length within the plain.
Research has shown that the Southern segment, which stretches from Parkfield in Monterey County, California all the way down to the Salton Sea, is capable of a Richter scale 8.1 earthquake. An earthquake of that size on the Southern segment (which, at its closest, is 40 miles away from Los Angeles) would kill thousands of people in Los Angeles, San Bernandino, Riverside, and other areas, and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in property and economic damage.[3]
[edit]Central segment
The central segment of the San Andreas fault runs in a northwestern direction from Parkfieldto Hollister. While the southern section of the fault and the parts through Parkfield experience earthquakes, the rest of the central section of the fault exhibits a phenomenon calledaseismic creep, where the fault slips continuously without causing earthquakes.
Northern segment
The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, then on up the San Francisco Peninsula, where it was first identified by Professor Lawson in 1895, then offshore at Daly City nearMussel Rock. This is the approximate location of the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The fault returns onshore at Bolinas Lagoon just north of Stinson Beach in Marin County. It returns underwater through the linear trough of Tomales Bay which separates thePoint Reyes Peninsula from the mainland, runs just east of the Bodega Heads through Bodega Bay and back underwater, returning onshore at Fort Ross. (In this region around theSan Francisco Bay Area several significant "sister faults" run more-or-less parallel, and each of these can create significantly destructive earthquakes.) From Fort Ross the northern segment continues overland, forming in part a linear valley through which the Gualala Riverflows. It goes back offshore at Point Arena. After that, it runs underwater along the coast until it nears Cape Mendocino, where it begins to bend to the west, terminating at the Mendocino Triple Junction.
Evolution
The evolution of the San Andreas dates back to the mid Cenozoic, to about 30 Mya (million years ago).[4] At this time, a spreading center between the Pacific Plate and the Farallon Plate (which is now mostly subducted, with remnants including the Juan de Fuca Plate,Rivera Plate, Cocos Plate, and the Nazca Plate) was beginning to interact with the subduction zone off the western coast of North America. The relative motion between the Pacific and North American Plates was different from the relative motion between the Farallon and North American Plates, so when the spreading ridge was 'subducted', a new relative motion caused a new style of deformation. This style is chiefly the San Andreas Fault, but also includes a possible driver for the deformation of the Basin and Range, separation of Baja California, and rotation of the Transverse Range.
The San Andreas Fault proper, at least the Southern Segment, has only existed for about 5 million years.[5] The first known incarnation of the southern part of the fault was Clemens Well-Fenner-San Francisquito fault zone around 22–13 Ma. This system added the San Gabriel Fault as a primary focus of movement between 10–5 Ma. Currently, it is believed that the modern San Andreas will eventually transfer its motion toward a fault within the Eastern California Shear Zone. This complicated evolution, especially along the southern segment, is mostly caused by either the "Big Bend" and/or a difference in the motion vector between the plates and the trend of the fault(s).
[edit]Plate movement
All land west of the fault on the Pacific Plate is moving slowly to the northwest while all land east of the fault is moving southwest (relatively southeast as measured at the fault) under the influence of plate tectonics. The rate of slippage averages approximately 33 to 37 millimetres (1.3 to 1.5 in) annually across California.[6]
The westward component of the motion of the North American Plate creates compressional forces which are expressed as uplift in the Coast Ranges. Likewise, the northwest motion of the Pacific Plate creates significant compressional forces where the North American Plate stands in its way, creating the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, and to a lesser, but still significant, extent the Santa Cruz Mountains, site of the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.
Studies of the relative motions of the Pacific and North American plates have shown that only about 75 percent of the motion can be accounted for in the movements of the San Andreas and its various branch faults. The rest of the motion has been found in an area east of the Sierra Nevada mountains called the Walker Lane or Eastern California Shear Zone. The reason for this is not as yet clear, although several hypotheses have been offered and research is ongoing. One hypothesis which gained some currency following theLanders Earthquake in 1992 is that the plate boundary may be shifting eastward, away from the San Andreas to the Walker Lane.
Assuming the plate boundary does not change as hypothesized, projected motion indicates that the landmass west of the San Andreas Fault, including Los Angeles, will eventually slide past San Francisco, then continue northwestward toward the Aleutian Trench, over a period of perhaps twenty million years.
[edit]Scientific research
[edit]Research at Parkfield
In central California is the small town of Parkfield, California, which lies along the San Andreas Fault. Seismologists discovered that this section of the fault consistently produces magnitude 6.0 earthquakes about every 22 years. Following earthquakes in 1857, 1881, 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966, scientists predicted an earthquake to hit Parkfield in 1993. This quake eventually struck in 2004 (see Parkfield earthquake). Because of this frequent activity and prediction, Parkfield has become one of the most popular spots in the world to try to capture and record large earthquakes.
In 2004, work began just north of Parkfield on the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth(SAFOD). The goal of SAFOD is to drill a hole nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) into the Earth's crust and into the San Andreas Fault. An array of sensors will be installed to capture and record earthquakes that happen near this area.[8]
[edit]The University of California study on "the next big one"
A study[9] completed by Yuri Fialko in 2006 has demonstrated that the San Andreas fault has been stressed to a level sufficient for the next "big one," as it is commonly called; that is, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater. The study also concluded that the risk of a large earthquake may be increasing more rapidly than researchers had previously believed. Fialko also emphasized in his study that, while the San Andreas Fault had experienced massive earthquakes in 1857 at its central section and in 1906 at its northern segment (the 1906 San Francisco earthquake), the southern section of the fault has not seen a similar rupture in at least 300 years.
If such an earthquake were to occur, Fialko's study stated, it would result in substantial damage to Palm Springs and a number of other cities in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties in California, and Mexicali municipality in Baja California. Such an event would be felt throughout much of Southern California, including densely populated areas of metropolitan Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Ensenada and Tijuana, Baja California, San Luis Rio Colorado in Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.
VIDEO LINE UP:
I regret to inform you that there will be no videos on my Blog tonight on this subject of the San Andreas Fault.
For some reason unknown to me, the videos will not load on my page in the Blogger Network.
So I will give these links to the You Tube Videos I had previewed and selected for tonight's blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdCwyOlxvd8
California quake swarm
Published on Aug 26, 2012 by MrDaveArt
Mirrored from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6433GBAzz0
http://youtu.be/1VIzmz9MlYU
Earthquake : 313 Earthquakes swarm San Diego County of Brawley California (Aug 27, 2012)
Published on Aug 27, 2012 by SignsofThyComing
News Articles:
Earthquake swarm puts California town on edge
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57500893/earthquake-swarm-puts-califor...
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Southern California in the Brawley Seismic Zone
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/swarm-earthquakes-rattle-southern-ca...
California Earthquakes: Swarm Of Quakes Rattle Southern California
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/california-earthquakes-sw_n_1833343....
Earthquake swarm puts California town on edge
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57500893/earthquake-swarm-puts-califor...
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Southern California in the Brawley Seismic Zone
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/swarm-earthquakes-rattle-southern-ca...
California Earthquakes: Swarm Of Quakes Rattle Southern California
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/california-earthquakes-sw_n_1833343....
http://youtu.be/V9DOgYEOQpY
The Big One - The Truth About the San Andreas
part one
Uploaded by ConsciousFilmmaker on Nov 27, 2007
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092526/ Produced, Directed and Edited by Conscious Filmmaker®, David C. Bojorquez, and hosted by Emmy Award winning firefighter Henry Johnson, this excerpt from the PBS documentary focuses on one of the world's greatest earthquake threats - California's San Andreas Fault. This production won a Gold Telly Award and was a Finalist in the International New York Film Festival competition.
http://youtu.be/7Axqwhi9Q80
The Big One - The Truth About the San Andreas
part two
Uploaded by ConsciousFilmmaker on Sep 16, 2008
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092526/
Part 2 from the national award winning PBS documentary that explores what will really happen when "The Big One" strikes California.
Part 2 from the national award winning PBS documentary that explores what will really happen when "The Big One" strikes California.
http://youtu.be/k0KCicapJyI
part three
The Big One - The Truth About the San Andreas
Uploaded by ConsciousFilmmaker on Sep 18, 2008
Part 3 of the national award winning winning documentary discussing the inevitable "Big One" earthquake on California's San Andreas fault - co-written, directed, produced and edited by David C. Bojorquez.
I do apologize for this breakdown in the Google Blogger Process to load the videos to my page. Hopefully, it will be fixed. I do hope Google is not in California by this fault line.
I am trying to get real time information to my friends so they can make a decision about their location.
...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek. See You next time. Peace be with You...........
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