It's California, so one would expect it to be weird. Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 07/09/2019 11:05:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"The earthquakes of the 4th and 5th occurred in what we call a fault zone," Glenn Biasi, a geophysicist with the USGS in Pasadena, California, told Live Science in an email, "where many individual faults are active. Many are short, and because they are buried, we probably do not know them all." He added, "This area does not fit the textbook picture of sides of a plate sliding past one another," and instead the relatively short faults criss-cross each other on more than one plane.
Susanne Jänecke, a geoscientist at Utah State University, described these fault systems as "hanging shoe organizers," where the sides, and tops and bottoms of the organizer would represent the various faults.
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake rattled a fault within the Little Lake fault zone — cracks in this spot near Ridgecrest tend to run in the northwest-southeast direction.
"The earthquake on Thursday [July 4] was more complex. And part of that smaller event happened on an unmapped fault that trends NE-SW. This is very interesting geologically, said Michele Cooke, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. "We don't have a lot of earthquakes in our record that show simultaneous slip on two perpendicular faults."
Even so, Cooke said many recent earthquakes have been a little messy, rupturing in a more complicated way than just an even slip on a single plane of faults.
These two earthquakes could also be just another sign that more seismological action is starting to occur not along the infamous San Andreas Fault but rather in the so-called Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ). "I'm not yet convinced of this, but I do think that this recent (geologically speaking) cluster of earthquakes in the ECSZ is very interesting," wrote Cooke, referring to 1992 and 1999 earthquakes within the zone.
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Never seen that happen before.
Weird huh?
Well, I guess that means we’re screwed.
It's California, so one would expect it to be weird. Thanks BenLurkin.
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Not weird - interesting. (The headline only has weird.)
I’m guessing that ANY earthquake that happens with a visible fault scarp a geologist will find interesting. How many times in a career do they happen?
This new set of visible faults will be studied in detail for the next ten years or more.
Yup
Heratic! The Scientific Consensus has spoken!
Sooner or later we run out of money or California. Has to happen.
I remember literally EVERY EARTHQUAKE that I experienced when in California was along a ‘new fault zone’ that no one knew existed. While I’m not claiming that I’m any more qualified than the ‘experts’ in this area, I am claiming that no one knows practically a damn thing regarding the understanding of earthquakes, but their stupid PhD’s make it impossible for them to accept that fact. Pretty much no different than the ‘experts’ that tell us to stuff ourselves with carbs in order to combat diabetes.
Is it curious that this happened in the center of a secret and important US military area?
Did we cause an “earthquake” in N. Korea to destroy their nuclear site?
Was this a similar type operation by Russia/China?
Don’t know. Just speculation...
The word Weird puts me off of reading any further, because of all those “This Weird Trick” emails.
The word Weird puts me off of reading any farther, because of all those “This Weird Trick” emails.
I get the feeling the Gulf of Mexico is going to expand all the way to Sacramento.
Its being said by a very accurate earthquake predictor Dutchsinse that another very big quake will occur soon, like within 48 to 72 hours, bigger than the others. And further south in the LA area.
Like a doctor who’s examining you says “Hmmm, well that’s interesting, I’ve never seen THAT before”
Really. What a bunch of gobbly goop from our so called experts.
See, now you could have lost 20 pounds of weight instantly.
The few bare known facts with tons of speculation of their meaning. Pure click bait, which is what LiveScience is in existence for.
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