Earthquake swarm hits California-Mexico border region

The California-Mexico border area was struck by a swarm of small earthquakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A 3.8 temblor hit south of Calexico about 12:54 a.m., followed by two 3.2 quakes over the next several hours. The last for those quakes hit in Mexico, about 11 miles from Mexicali and 17 miles from Tijuana.

There were also numerous smaller quakes. This same area was hit by a 4.0 quake this month.

No injuries and damage were reported.

According to the USGS, the quake swarm was felt in parts of San Diego and Imperial counties.

-- Shelby Grad

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Comments

[john delano]

ORIGINOFQUAKE:

It is the best of times. It could be the worst of times. Before the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 somthing dramatic happened in the area of the San Andraeous fault in 1888 , 18 years before.

The human animal ,my specie [not an insect] saw a mountain stream between two high "hills" running southeast on the Peninusula across the harbor southeast of SanFrancisco and dammed the flow.
Crystal lake dam, not one but two dams "right on the San Andreous fault.

"Lets lubricate the San Andreous, lets surprise San Francisco again."

What are we thinking?

The hills were created by the movement, the up and down movement of the San Andreous fault. The weight of the waater behind these dams is lubricating the fault. Remember the greese gun you had to work to pump the greece into that small fitting, well the weight of the water in Crystal Lake , that huge force per square inch under all that water, that downward pressure on the bottom is enough to force open faults, cracks in the rock and lubricate the entire structure.
There are some eggheads that think lubricating a fault is a good thing and smaller lateral movements to the northwest on one side of the fault and small southeast movement on the other side of the fault is a good thing.
These are the Plate Tectonic "fudge factor" experts that started out with 7 original plates- some like South America are moving in the wrong direction, now have 14 plates and many exceptions and they , the plates are still being invented. It is all wrong! If the crust is spreading at the Atlantic Mid-Ocean ridge why is not being "subducted" anywhere in the United States? Is there a trench Imissed 35,000 feet deep that I missed when I drove "cross country."

The hills on each side of the San Andreous fault are moving. They move up and down, rising, rebounding like the Island of Iceland.
Some massive Ice cap In the Pacific hollow [Delano's Discovery] Moved over this area. The Island of Greenland , the largest Island in the world is below sealevel in the center area because of the force of the 10,000 feet of ice above. Get rid of the ice in Greenland and you would have a large bowl shapped valley like the Sacramento Valley!

You may have some magma rising deep down along this fault.

Return this area to a time before 1888!

Break open the dam. Make it a walking path , a nature walk for all to enjoy.

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