{"id":18983,"date":"2020-10-02T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:31:06","slug":"intense-earthquake-swarm-near-salton-sea-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/intense-earthquake-swarm-near-salton-sea-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense earthquake swarm near Salton Sea, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18755\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/idf-adds-elite-units-to-border-buildup-braces-for-hizballah-strike-in-days\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"black_horse_blog-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18755\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18984\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/intense-earthquake-swarm-near-salton-sea-california\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020-.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"798,925\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020-\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020-.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18984\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020--259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020--259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/salton-sea-earthquake-swarm-oct-1-2020-.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dont-touch\" href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/author\/Don\/\" rel=\"author\"> Teo Bla\u0161kovi\u0107 <\/a>&#8211; <time datetime=\"2020-10-01T07:41:00\">October 1, 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<p><strong>An intense earthquake swarm started near Salton Sea, California on September 30, 2020, with 421 earthquakes detected by 07:00 UTC on October 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The swarm is centered just southeast of Salton Sea, near Westmorland in Imperial Valley,\u00a0in an area with a history of intense swarms.\u00a0The most notable earthquakes in the region include M5.8 in 1981 and M5.4 in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>During this earthquake swarm, the probability of larger earthquakes in this region is significantly greater than usual, the USGS said.<\/li>\n<li>The swarm is taking place in Brawley Seismic Zone,\u00a0a network of small faults that connect the San Andreas and Imperial faults.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The USGS registered a total of 440 earthquakes from 10:06 UTC on September 30 to 07:33 UTC on October 1, 2020, with the largest M4.9 at 00:31 UTC on October 1, followed by M4.5, M4.4, M4.2, and two M4.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This earthquake [M4.9] and the associated swarm are located in an area of diffuse seismic activity between the San Andreas fault in the north and the Imperial fault to the south,&#8221; USGS seismologists said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This area has also seen swarms in the past \u2013 notably the 1981 Westmorland swarm, which included a M5.8 earthquake, and the 2012 Brawley swarm, which included a M5.4 earthquake. Past swarms in this region have remained active for 1 to 20 days, with an average duration of about a week. The current swarm is occurring about 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the south of the swarm that occurred near Bombay Beach in August 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the USGS, there is approximately a 3 in 10 000 chance of a magnitude 7+ earthquake in the vicinity of this swarm in a typical week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This is] one of the largest swarms we have had in the Imperial Valley,&#8221; seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2020\/10\/01\/earthquake-swarm-salton-sea-california-october-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/watchers.news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teo Bla\u0161kovi\u0107 &#8211; October 1, 2020 An intense earthquake swarm started near Salton Sea, California on September 30, 2020, with 421 earthquakes detected by 07:00 UTC on October 1. The swarm is centered just southeast of Salton Sea, near Westmorland in Imperial Valley,\u00a0in an area with a history of intense swarms.\u00a0The most notable earthquakes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/intense-earthquake-swarm-near-salton-sea-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intense earthquake swarm near Salton Sea, California<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[501,15275,38,1368,15274,15272,383,318,15273],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-california","tag-dr-lucy-jones","tag-earthquake","tag-earthquake-swarm","tag-imperial-fault","tag-salton-sea","tag-san-andreas","tag-usgs","tag-westmorland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Wb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}