By Jonathan Tamayo
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There’s been a slew of minor earthquakes the last couple of months and this morning there was a whopping 24 quakes recorded near the Salton Sea with a magnitude of 4.8, including one that could have caused moderate damage.
The scary part isn’t that there were 24 earthquakes within a 15 minute period, but that it comes at a time when scientists are watching to see if small faults are transferring energy to the more dangerous San Andreas Fault, inevitably causing the Big One.
The quakes occurred early this morning around 5 am. The epicenter was 3 miles south of Bombay Beach and 90 miles east-northeast of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Geologist Graham Kent of UCSD told the LA Times that scientists are particularly interested in this area because an earthquake that starts in Bombay Beach in Imperial County and ripples northwest along the San Andreas fault could be the Big One that devastates Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
