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Kettleman City swarm? - PennyB - 06-25-2014
Hi folks:
Just noting apparent swarm of 3s near Kettleman City. Haven't seen that before (that I recall, given my elderly brain!). Ideas?
Penny
RE: Kettleman City swarm? - Skywise - 06-25-2014
(06-25-2014, 04:15 PM)PennyB Wrote: Hi folks:
Just noting apparent swarm of 3s near Kettleman City. Haven't seen that before (that I recall, given my elderly brain!). Ideas?
Penny
You beat me to it. Yep. Noticed it.
Looks like a cross fault, if the locations are accurate enough. There's certainly faults in the area just based on the geography, even though there are none mapped that I'm aware of.
Here's a link to a USGS history search of the area, 1900 to present, 500km radius. There's a large cluster "upstream" where the Coalinga quakes occurred in the 1980's.
http://tinyurl.com/pae4byh
CAUTION, it's a big list of quakes and your browser may complain. The USGS certainly throws up a warning about "too many quakes" which you can bypass.
Brian