Posted on 03/03/2013 3:21:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — Authorities say a foul odor that spurred calls to fire departments throughout the city on Sunday is possibly the result of the large release of methane in the Santa Monica Bay.
Santa Monica Fire said in a department statement that they believe the strong odor was caused by a naturally occurring methane leak below the ocean floor.
“This morning there was a large release of natural ocean floor methane released in the Santa Monica Bay,” the statement said. “This methane is not toxic and dissipates quickly.”
Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the Air Quality Management District (AQMD), said his agency has not confirmed that theory.
Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, said the odor was noted inland from the Santa Monica Bay.
Last September, a widespread sulfurous stench that blanketed parts of the Southland was apparently traced back to a biological occurrence on the landlocked Salton Sea.
Probably the stinking corrupt politicians.
Methane is odorless.
When they stopped offshore drilling, toxic gas releases increased dramatically. There is lots of pressure in those offshore oil fields, and drilling is absolutely necessary to keep the beaches and air clean.
Your post makes no sense at all.
>> “allegedly by methane releases from the sea floor...” <<
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Actually from the Genesis 6 judgment.
Sorry. I swear I was sober when I wrote it. And it still makes scents to me, if you catch my drift.
Our area, the South Bay, does indeed experience the occasional gas bubble, which wells up from the ocean off the coast of Redondo Beach, and drifts inland. The Daily Breeze (local newspaper) has reported on it.
And I really did notice it around my house, in the way I described it. And the Gas Co. really did get reports that were in a geographical pattern that made it clear which way the gas was drifting.
That’s the real scoop!
California gets these natural gas bubbles because they stopped their offshore drilling which in the past would relieve the underground pressure.
If you don’t drill it to put it into a pipeline, then nature belches it up into the atmosphere, instead.
Gas delivery is normally provided by a closed, managed system not subject to the environmental anomalies you’re describing.
You mentioned in your earlier post you could smell the gas.
Natural gas has no smell,it is added.
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Right.
This wasn’t normal.
The flames in the burners on my gas range were burning taller and livelier than normal and there was a gas smell in the house. This has never occurred before, or since, at my house. But it was occurring in numerous nearby houses also that day, according to the Gas Co. And it was an interesting, but harmless, phenomenon they said.
(I’m not crazy I tell you! Please, you’ve got to believe me! Get that straight jacket away from me!! Noooooo!!) :)
Just Holy Mother Gaia farting in California’s face. Fortunately, H. M. Gaia is not a frat jock and no deliberate ignition of gas occurred.
Well, the press and the Gas Co. were calling it a methane bubble. All I can guess is that either it is not pure methane, and some stinky odors of a different compound get released with the methane when it comes up, or we are calling the gas bubble by an incorrect name, because it is made of something other than methane entirely.
At first I wondered if the California legislature was in session, but then realized, this happened nowhere near Sacramento. Thanks BenLurkin.
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