Hi All. The Salton Sea area is not a stranger to quake swarms. There have been some fairly strong quakes in the area in the past. It doesn’t appear that the current swarm is heading towards anything larger, but can’t rule that out. Take Care…Don in creepy town

The largest events to have occurred on the cross-faults were the magnitude 6.2 Elmore Ranch event in 1987, which is considered to have triggered the magnitude 6.6 Superstition Hills event less than 12 hours later, and the magnitude 5.7 Westmorland event in 1981. Although Brawley Seismic Zone activity is clearly proximal to the southern San Andreas fault, the San Jacinto fault zone, and the Imperial fault, the current activity is remaining more than 10 km distant from any of these major faults.

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