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Originally posted by Anmarie96
"Now, please anyone just jump right in here a dispel this thought because it is big.... Here goes.... So here we have what appears to be a Caldera - "
Cerra Prieto is actually just a rather small cone, not a caldera. It's basically sitting at the junction of the Pacific and North American plates, on the "ring of fire." It's doubtful it had anything to do with formation of the San Andreas, but the movement of the two plates certainly did. The "dirt drawings" are made by the locals by lining up rocks found at the site to form pictures or words, which does indeed qualify them as graffiti.
"How long will it take them to pull the red squares of the maps???? or, are they finally giving us a clue?????"
The suspicious red squares are always on the map, provided that you are viewing the map within an hour of the quake. The legend on the right side of the map explains why the squares are differently colored. Any given quake starts out as a red square, an hour later goes to blue, and after twenty four hours it's yellow. After one week they drop off the map.
I have watched this map daily for roughly the past ten years. There are swarms of quakes in the area periodically, sometimes lasting a few days and sometimes a much longer time. I live close enough to feel them if they are over about 3.4 or so.
For anyone able to spend some time searching and reading on it, there is plenty of info out there on the area and the geothermal activity (and power generation) as well. I don't believe there is anything secretive about it. The volcano see just seems to be waking up a little. There is a connection between the extraction of water from the geothermal fields and earthquake activity, but I'm thinking the latest activity is much more closely related to magma movement... just a presumption on my part.
I've known about some of the local Indian legends since I was a little kid (quite a long time ago) and my dad was in the Naval Reserves at the air station near El Centro, California. The story was, the earth would shake, cracks open up, and a fiery dragon would come out and devour everything. BTW, it's not uncommon at all for water or mud to shoot up out of the ground during quakes.
Now that it's in the news and more people are becoming aware of it, keep your eye on the area. I, personally, have a feeling that we're going to see something even bigger happen there. I've been waiting for it for the past few years.
Originally posted by JanCee
Originally posted by Anmarie96
I have watched this map daily for roughly the past ten years. There are swarms of quakes in the area periodically, sometimes lasting a few days and sometimes a much longer time. I live close enough to feel them if they are over about 3.4 or so.
For anyone able to spend some time searching and reading on it, there is plenty of info out there on the area and the geothermal activity (and power generation) as well. I don't believe there is anything secretive about it. The volcano see just seems to be waking up a little. There is a connection between the extraction of water from the geothermal fields and earthquake activity, but I'm thinking the latest activity is much more closely related to magma movement... just a presumption on my part.
I've known about some of the local Indian legends since I was a little kid (quite a long time ago) and my dad was in the Naval Reserves at the air station near El Centro, California. The story was, the earth would shake, cracks open up, and a fiery dragon would come out and devour everything. BTW, it's not uncommon at all for water or mud to shoot up out of the ground during quakes.
Lubricate a stressed fault with water & you get an earthquake.
More water is seeping deep into the earth in fault zones than ever before. That, combined with the tidal forces of the moon, which provide heat energy to magma, not to be confused with ocean tides. Of course ocean tide energy is dispersed rather quickly compared to solid rock undergoing tides.
Its not that the whole earth's crust is heaving & flexing, but that the focal points are where the geological faults & volcanos are. As the rest of the non-faulted areas become more stable, more energy is diverted to the fault areas & volcanos. Think of the earth as a sponge squeezing out water thru the faults, less water is under non-fault areas, making them more stable, while more heads toward escape fissures and concentrating the water which is a lubricant for earthquakes to happen. What keeps pockets of magama hot? The same, superheated water & friction of the earth as it flexes under the tidal forces of the moon. As a consequence of energy conserved, the moon moves away from the earth at about an inch per year.
There is a gravimetric disterbence in the earths crust itself, lower in the pacific area than the other areas. This is by satillite data from NASA. The evidence is also there in the pacific trenches which are very deeper than the ocean floor and would easily hold all the mountains of the whole world.
So picture this, hypothetically, the pacific area is the bottom of the hill, and the continents are stuck on the side of the hill wanting to slide toward the bottom if they get the chance.
This is also why the pacific trenches are in subsidence, while the atlantic rift has an increased mass bulging up. The crust creeps toward lower gravimetric areas at inches per year its trying to establish equilibruim. This isn't a long-term process, if it were millions of years it would have established equilibruim millions of years ago. Something happened recently in geological terms that the earth is still trying to recover from.
Why do all the major rivers of the world have delta deposits that are 4500 years old or less?
There are several experimental geothermal developments in the Imperial Valley, extending from the south shore of the Salton Sea into Mexico. The Salton Sea geothermal field is the largest and the hottest of the several fields in the Salton Valley, and has the longest history of development.
Across the Mexican border lies the Cerro Prieto geothermal field near Cerro Prieto Volcano. It is a large field and is economically productive.