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LAFD: ‘Rotten Egg’ Odor Reported Across San Fernando Valley
CBSLA.com) ^ | September 10, 2012 11:13 AM

Posted on 09/10/2012 2:31:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin

STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Authorities on Monday investigated widespread reports of a foul odor detected across the San Fernando Valley.

Shortly after 5:00 a.m., a “rotten egg-type” smell was reported “widely across (and possibly beyond) the north San Fernando Valley and Foothill communities of Los Angeles”, according to Brian Humphrey with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

No illnesses or any specific hazard has been associated with the odor, Humphrey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.

The sulfur-type odor — which Humphrey said “appears to be organic in nature” — had been reported as far west as Simi Valley and as far east as Cathedral City and Perris in Riverside County.

While officials worked to investigate the source of the smell, officials did acknowledge the smell could be affecting a wider swath of Southern California.

Stephen Harrison with the National Weather Service office in San Diego told KNX 1070′s Vytas Safronikas that whatever the source or sources of sulphuric odor, wind currents have been moving in an east to west direction from the Salton Sea into parts of the Greater Los Angeles area.

“It’s always possible to get some kind of odor coming from the Salton Sea up through the Coachella Valley through the Banning Pass and into the Inland Empire,” said Harrison.

Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Monica Carazzo said the odor is affecting schedules at some local schools, including Osceola Street Elementary.

“Some schools are implementing a rainy day schedule, meaning that once kids get their lunch, they go inside of the classroom, recesses are inside, that type of thing,” said Carazzo. “But that’s school by school.”

Residents do not need to call 911 to report the odor unless they are experiencing a medical emergency, Humphrey said


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hydrogensulfide; losangeles; losangelos
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To: machogirl

FWIW, I’ve lived in the area since the early 80s.

When the Salton Sea inversion hits, many fish die off and rot on the beach, but the smell/odor IMHO is distinct from what we recently experienced.

IMHO, it was much closer to burnt matches or a red phosphorus smell.

FWIW Methane is odorless, but other odors associated with sewers, such as H2S also are bothersome. Some many have been involved.

The fish kill may have been due to gas release, as opposed to the fish die off a generation of the gas release.


121 posted on 09/17/2012 5:03:35 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: machogirl

mark


122 posted on 09/17/2012 5:06:37 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr

Interesting observations. Thank you. :)


123 posted on 09/17/2012 5:33:29 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Errant

Thanks. We get that frequently here in the valley (of the sun and heat) during the Monsoon dust storms.
I haven’t watched the whole thing yet. It was posted as a headline on “Before it’s News” like this, “Huge Volcanic Steam Plume Eruption In Southern California !!”. I was reading about the new swarm today in the Canary Islands at El Hierro and just below that, the headline. It was a “what?” moment for me.

thanks again


124 posted on 09/17/2012 5:38:23 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

Seems similar to this story:

“Breaking: Dormant Mojave Desert Volcano Is Dormant”
by Chris Clarke
on August 3, 2011 11:00 AM

This month’s breaking news from the Central Mojave: The Pisgah Crater, a cinder cone two miles south of Interstate 40 near Ludlow, California that has likely been dormant for at least 20,000 years, is not erupting.

That’s right: not erupting. The US Geological Survey has even issued a press statement to that effect, after two agency geologists were interviewed by local press. Why? Because a fellow going by the name of Dutch Sinse, a conspiracy buff far from the Mojave Desert, viewed NEXRAD doppler radar videos of what would seem to be monsoonal storm cells and declared them to be “volcanic plumes” — an eruption, of sorts, in progress.

Sinse, who generally writes about alleged tampering with weather by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), has a significant following on his blog and YouTube channel. Here’s the video in which Sinse announces the eruption:http://www.youtube.com/embed/7X9-pV67DvU

In the video, Sinse states that the “plume” cannot possibly be a wildfire, in part because there have been no news reports of wildfires in the area. (The similar lack of news reports on volcanic eruptions two miles off Interstate 40 escapes mention.)

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/the_back_forty/weather/breaking-dormant-mojave-desert-volcano-is-dormant.html


125 posted on 09/18/2012 7:42:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

lol, thanks. i love the headline of the story.


126 posted on 09/18/2012 9:09:41 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: BenLurkin; Errant; winoneforthegipper

Does anyone have an idea why the abc7 LA quake cam has been down? (at least a day for me)

thanks


127 posted on 09/18/2012 5:28:28 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl
It does drop off every once in awhile....It's working now!

As for the stench being a magmatic source...yeah I would think not, however in a way it is connected to it...lol

128 posted on 09/19/2012 4:47:11 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

thanks gipper


129 posted on 09/19/2012 5:41:01 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: BenLurkin

Oddly enough a sulfur-type odor was also reported in the Monterey Bay area today.

Coincidence?


130 posted on 09/19/2012 5:44:32 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: BenLurkin

Oxnard.


131 posted on 09/19/2012 5:47:50 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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To: WeatherGuy

You smelled it there too?


132 posted on 09/19/2012 8:10:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: hedgetrimmer

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/dontknow.wav


133 posted on 09/19/2012 8:11:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

lol


134 posted on 09/19/2012 8:19:18 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl
EQ activity in SoCal has been kind of quiet over the last week. Nothing but micro-quakes. Makes me nervous. Particularly regarding the long stretch of the San Andreas from San Bernardino to Parkfield where nothing much has happened for a number of years now.


135 posted on 09/19/2012 8:32:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

The calm before the storm. Never know. I noticed a small one close to Parkfield this week. Guess “Planet X” or “Niribu” didn’t trigger the doom. The stretch is a bendy kind of fault.


136 posted on 09/19/2012 8:40:09 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: BenLurkin

Do you think that the USGS withholds information or downgrades the quake numbers? Just asking.


137 posted on 09/19/2012 9:12:25 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

No.


138 posted on 09/20/2012 10:55:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin; Errant; winoneforthegipper

Looking at the abc7 seismo for the last day, esp. today, it sure is grouchy. non-stop minor rumbling. Any thoughts?


139 posted on 09/25/2012 9:02:37 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl
It comes in cycles. There has been a quiet period and now it's time for an increase. IMO, it's part of a worldwide phenomena and will continue to increase in cycles, along with other increased activity being seen planet-wide.

I look for it to get worse. How bad? Bad enough to contribute to the start of an overdue ice-age.

140 posted on 09/25/2012 9:32:59 AM PDT by Errant
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