The mysterious mud move Spring could be the start of the great California campaign
The mysterious mud move Spring could be the start of the great California campaign
The mysterious mud move Spring could be the start of the great California campaign
"It's a slow disaster."
That may sound like an oxymoron, but not to Alfredo Estrada, fire chief and emergency services coordinator for Imperial County, California, the southernmost county on the border with Mexico, where residents are less concerned about politics than by a strange phenomenon that creeps on its land at an alarming speed that could be a sign that the California Big One earthquake might be starting right in its own backyard.
the "Disaster of slow movement" is a spring - a geological formation that occurs when an underground liquid in motion weakens the mud - a soft sedimentary rock - above it, causing a hole to fill with water. Like sinkholes, mud springs tend to become larger, not smaller, as the earth continues to collapse. Water bubbles are caused by carbon dioxide and other gases, so they often smell like rotten eggs.
Imperial County Location
Why are geologists, residents, earthquake experts, and death row prisoners worried about a bubbling cauldron on the ground, so far from northern California, where the Big One is generally expected to hit? On the one hand, Imperial County is where a corner of the North American plate grazes a corner of the Pacific Plate, causing vibrations that run northward along connection faults that include San Andreas.
But the real reason for concern is that this mud spring at the beginning of the faults, which has existed for decades in relatively the same place, is suddenly moving at an unprecedented rate for mud springs, up to 60 feet per day. One day! As a result, major infrastructure in the county is in danger, beginning with the Union Pacific railroad tracks that are used to transport large quantities of cargo through the county. The railroad has established temporary roads and redirected trains because a wall of rocks and steel 100 feet long and 75 feet deep did nothing to stop the mud spring. Draining the water did not help either, why do you think they call it a spring? Union Pacific is now considering a bridge over muddy spring. Meanwhile, local government officials plan to close part of Highway 111 that is on the direct path of the rapidly approaching spring of mud.
Failure of San Andreas
Outside the nervous residents of Imperial County, who are warned to stay away from 24,000 square feet (for now), an unstable body of a spring full of carbon dioxide and depleted in oxygen, who else should be worried ? As expected, the government is minimizing what is known as The Slow One. Geophysicist Ken Hudnut of the US Geological Survey UU He told the Los Angeles Times that, despite the fact that the mud spring is the result of earthquakes that weaken the muddy stone and cause deep cracks that release carbon dioxide, this rapid anomaly swallows dirt in its malodorous mouth at the initial location of the faults that could trigger The Big One. They are not cause for concern.
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