5.9 Earthquake Hit Southern California , page 10

reply to post by TiM3LoRd

Could be. Since I was young, I always here people from around here talking about "Earthquake Weather".

It got windy all of a sudden about an hour ago aswell. It's been 100 - 105 Degree's here for about 2-3weeks, and with hardly any wind.

I also found this bit of information;

Plate-Tectonic and Earthquake Setting of the Salton Trough

Southern California straddles two of the Earth's plates that move past each other,
the Pacific and North American plates (Fig. 1). The Pacific plate is moving relatively to
the northwest and consists of the region southwest of the San Andreas fault and
southwest of the Gulf of California. (This large plate extends all the way to Japan). The
North American plate is moving relatively to the southeast and consists of the region
that is northeast of the San Andreas fault and northeast of the Gulf of California. (This
large plate extends eastward to the center of the Atlantic Ocean). The boundary
between the two plates is quite crooked and includes places where there are steps to the
right, such as in the Gulf of California and Salton Trough, and at least one place where
there is a big bend to the left, in the Transverse Ranges of southern California. Where
the plate boundary is oriented in the direction of motion between the plates, the plates
slide past one another without colliding or pulling away from one another. Where the
plate boundary steps to the right, holes (rifts) in the Earth's crust occur, and when the
boundary bends to the left, pile-ups (mountains) are generated (See Fig. 1). The Gulf of
California and its onshore extension, the Salton Trough (which includes Mexicali,
Imperial, and Coachella Valleys), are located over a series of rifts in the Earth's crust,
which are filling with sediment from above, chiefly from the Colorado River, and
magmatic material from below. The Cerro Prieto geothermal field in Mexico and the
Brawley Seismic zone in the U.S. are located above two of these rifts, and young
volcanoes in these locations are evidence of intrusion of magma from below. These two
regions are linked by a plate-boundary segment known as the Imperial fault. The Cerro
Prieto rift is linked by the Cerro Prieto fault to the next rift south in the Gulf of
California, and the Brawley Seismic Zone is linked by the San Andreas fault to a
junction of three plates at Cape Mendocino, California (well beyond the north end of
Fig. 1). In addition to the plate-boundary faults, there are faults on either side that take
up some of the motion between the North American and Pacific plates, including the
Elsinore and San Jacinto faults and faults in the Mojave Desert (see below).

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[edit on 15-6-2010 by Oozii]