[decimon]

Caption: This map shows the current Salton Sea boundaries and outline of Lake Cahuilla at its peak size as well as locations of major area faults.

Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

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[decimon]

Fault on Salton ping.

[libertarian27]

I watched a documentary on the Salton Sea a year or so ago - what a funky place that is now compared to what it once was...

[Parley Baer]

Could be that the filling of the Salton Sea released some of the stress that was building up on a somewhat regular basis. Now that that does not happen maybe and even bigger quake will occur.

[oyez]

The Salton Sea area is subject to a lot natural and unnatural variables.

[Lazlo in PA]

Isn’t this the place that had the salinity rise through the roof?

[Larry Lucido]

So is it Salton Sea’s fault, or San Andreas’ fault? :-)

[wildehunt]

Camped there last winter for 3 days. It was the only warm place in CA that week.
It has a surreal beauty that grows on you.
The RV rocked and jiggled often from the seismic activity.

[RayChuang88]

An interesting tidbit of history: before the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad, that entire area was called the Salton Sink and given the very low rainfall and high summer temperatures, nobody wanted to live there. But when the railroad arrived, scientists discovered the soil along the Salton Sink near the Mexican border was very nutrient rich, and thanks to the installation of irrigation canals from the Colorado River they were able to open the land for agriculture, and renamed the southern part of the Salton Sink its modern name: Imperial Valley.

So how did the Salton Sea get created? The original Alamo Canal that provided irrigation to the Imperial Valley overflowed from torrential rains several times between 1904 and 1907, and the torrent of water effectively flooded the lowest parts of the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea. It wasn't until the Alamo Canal was extensively reinforced that the flooding finally stopped; engineers determined that to prevent the Salton Sea from rising excessively, it was decide to replace the Alamo Canal with today's All-American Canal further south (the new canal opened in 1942) as the irrigation source for the Imperial Valley.

[dalereed]

strip the funds from these whackos!

The Salton Sea gets flooded when there is an overabundance of water in the Colorado River and it changes course and floods.

The last time it happened was early in the last century and my father was there and there wasn’t any earthquake.

[Osage Orange]

Ancient?

[Osage Orange]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQqcYBeCmw

Huell Howser was a great guy.....And is worth your watching pleasure....

Many films he did..very worth watching.