This California landmark may be preventing a major earthquake

SF Gate ^

[NohSpinZone]

Unlike the Bay Area, which has seen two major earthquakes in under 120 years, Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California are in a 300-year “seismic drought” that’s baffled scientists for years.

Research published this week has revealed that a toxic 300-square-mile lake, and its effect on the pent-up tectonic plates below, may be a big reason why.

In short, the drying of the Salton Sea in modern times has, for now, reduced pressure on the San Andreas Fault and delayed the “Big One,” which may one day wreak devastation on the Los Angeles basin and its 13 million residents.

“It’s the weight of the lake on the Earth’s crust,” said Ryley G. Hill, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate at San Diego State University’s geological sciences department and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, over the phone. “Imagine bending a ruler. You’re bending the upper crust, and this changes the stress in the area of the fault.”

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“dirt is heaver.”

hmmmm ..... now you have me wondering ...
which is heaver ?

a pound of water
or a pound of dirt

hmmmm ..... ?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of lead?

[Scrambler Bob]

hmmmm ..... now you have me wondering ...
which is heaver ?

a pound of water
or a pound of dirt

hmmmm ..... ?
= = =

I have been reading about a pound of CO2.

It is heavier.

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which one is heaver ?

water, dirt,gold, co2 ?

Hmmmmm......?

co2 does seem to carry a lot of weight thees days, especially in the media and gov. ....
and gold has fallen from 2000+ to 1950 so it looks like it must be getting heaver and harder to carry ....

but I think lead gets the prize .... because you have to add in for the brass ....

just saying ..

[HartleyMBaldwin]

You don’t know, then. OK.

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don't know,

In the real world ...
gold 1 lb weighs 373 grams
lead 1 lb weighs 454 grams

It would have been funnier if you had just schooled me
with a bit of sarcasm or smack.

I teed it up for you and you
........ bunted

and I still say ...you have to add for the brass ..

get it ... lead and brass ?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Got it. Very clever.

[SunkenCiv]

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