Ridgecrest/China Lake and the Cosco Volcanic Field

Interesting, Sean. Thanks for the link. I find volcanic and geothermal fields fascinating, whether active or not.

It's only a matter of time before that tectonic plate moves dramatically.
We joke about having "ocean front property" here in AZ but, the fact is, it could be a real catastrophe.

Very interesting Sean, thanks for posting.

Maybe not in my time, according to geologists and seismologists there is a 100% chance of a severe earthquake that will cause catastrophic results throughout Los Angeles area. This is one time I Pray that scientists are wrong.

Not to many folks live on the eastern Sierra from Mammoth to Barstow maybe 150 thousand and that would be in the cooler months when mining goes all out and the skiers hit the slopes. The desert is very unforgiving on that stretch in the summer months.

I love learning and have always been fascinated with the plates, volcanoes and earthquakes. Thank you Sean

I lived through Loma Prieta, drove on the lower deck of the cypress structure 45 minutes before it pancaked. When I was back at the warehouse, the 60 ft racks of pallets started swaying and I jumped out an open dock door just in time to see a transformer explode about 100 feet in front of me as the power lines hit the deck.

Still minor stuff compared to others...so many fault lines, if they go in a big way, California will be a very bad place to be.....

Losing CA would be catastrophic for the entire country. Also, imagine the resulting tidal waves wreaking havoc in the pacific.

I don’t even want to think about the outcome, it would be catastrophic. 

Here is a link to the live map. volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/coso_volcanic_field/coso_volcanic_field_monitoring_13.html

Here is picture of the Long Valley that is one big volcano only the Yellowstone Caldera is just a bit bigger.

Your welcome Ted I have been staring at it for days. It is cool to check it every couple of hours and watch the numbers rack up. I hope the seismologists are learning a lot from this.

Darn thing is still going like Jiffy Pop on the stove seems to be calming down a bit.

Good morning Ted. It get additive watching it change and checking the red dots. Over three thousand after shocks. I wish the news would show Trona a little north of Ridgecrest as there are three big borax refineries in the Searles lake bed. Also Inyokern has about a 1000 people. As a side note Mt Saint Helens had earthquakes for two months before it erupted. The Coso range is very old with lots of Granite and some amazing petroglyphs.

It's a common fallacy that people think California is going to fall into the ocean. In reality the Pacific plate goes under the continental plate and continues to. While that is a accompanied by earthquakes, if there is a big continental shift, California will actually gain coastal property that was once submerged. We'll become a much larger state than we are today. Perhaps one day we can claim to be bigger than Texas.