Keeler, CA earthquakes

[tabatha]

Interesting - scroll down for the bold entries

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada_eqs.php

[Sanity Claws]

1. Oh, my!

That looks ominous. I'll have to look up where Keeler is.

On edit:
It is a sparsely populated and had a swarm of earthquakes back in May 23-25, 2009. The current swarm has more quakes and they seem to be more powerful.

[izquierdista]

2. So???

It's got mountains all around it. Of course there are earthquakes there.

[kestrel91316]

14. The Keeler quakes are not along a fault line, though. They are all right

on top of each other. In an area with volcanic activity (cinder cone to south, Mammoth/Long Valley caldera to north). Your snarky attitude toward the possibility of a new volcano in the area is duly noted. If it happens, and people die, can we count on you to come spit on their graves??

[izquierdista]

18. How many people live within 50 miles of Keeler?

50? or is it 100? They might even have to use 2 buses to evacuate everyone.

[kestrel91316]

19. Are you completely clueless about the type of volcanic activity

that is possible in the area? Please do read up on the LONG VALLEY CALDERA before you mock the risk of death here. Everybody has heard of the YELLOWSTONE CALDERA, but we have one of those suckers within easy range of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Reno.

Were you born stupid, or did this level of idiocy take special lessons?

[Capn Sunshine]

3. I know that place

There are volcanoes, mostly dormant or dead, all along that area. The San Anreas Fault is really visible. There's a classic cinder cone visible from the highway about ten miles south of Keeler

[kestrel91316]

15. That cinder cone always creeped me out.. I drive faster when I am near it,

in case it suddenly erupts, lol.

[sjdnb]

4. Interesting NPR talk with USGS seismologist

http://laist.com/2009/10/01/another_earthquake_swarm_yes_this_t.php">via laist Blog

[tabatha]

5. Thanks.

[XemaSab]

6. Interesting

Not too close to the Long Valley caldera...

...but not too far, either. :scared:

[blues90]

7. Stop , you are going to zinx us .

I've been through a few here and you never know the next one could be one second from now. The one in Jan 1994 had to be the worst I've been through.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Explanation, please ---

The top several events seem to be tomorrow -- how does that work?

[tekisui]

9. All the data is on UTC, or Greenwich mean time.

It is tomorrow, there, now.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Thanks, that just startled me a bit!

[omega minimo]

11. Can't be bothered to put two sentences together? One. Feh.

:puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. That is a hell of a cluster

and not all of the Keeler ones were bold either

[Garbo 2004]

13. That's the Owens Valley area....been having a "swarm" last few days.

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/state&id=7045972

[Garbo 2004]

16. Map of California's major earthquakes faults:

http://education.usgs.gov/california/maps/faults_names1.htm

[tabatha]

17. More information:

http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/10/keeler-earthquake-swarm.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/02/BA8H1A0M0S.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea