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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 09:03 AM


Was Marv the first one to take the group to BOLA? 'Cause I know the program was in existence long before Marv took it over.

I seem to remember that a community college also has some kind of field studies program there. I believe they have a compound right at Guillermo's. Think it is/was a school from the Valley.

But, admittedly, I havent been to BOLA since the early 2000s now.

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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 09:10 AM
Iris Seismic monitor website


Another reference that features a summary of earthquakes headlines:
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30days_N_Pacific.html

Looks like a pretty active period around North America these days:wow:




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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 09:11 AM


The coast of Michoacan had a 6.5 yesterday at noon. Hope this isn't a precursor for a big mamacita up in California!
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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 10:33 AM


I remember Phil and had his wife Patricia as an English teacher at Saddleback in the early 70s. One of the best teachers I ever had.

I also remember Mike Gaskins and met him and his group once in Baja somewhere, cant remember where. I do think it was in BOLA. ' Nuff said about that. :saint:




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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 10:46 AM


Mulege area:

Last night while watching a late night movie..and had just dropped off to dreamland, when the bed started rocking.

For a minute I thought I had got lucky.




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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 11:35 AM


Seems like business as usual this morning in downtown BOLA. Just a few frayed nerves in the night. After the two biggies I think I slept through most of the 4.x aftershocks the map was showing.
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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 11:42 AM


Checking the old adobe this morning I could not see any new cracks, but my grandfather clock had stopped right at 1:15 a.m. The quake must have swung against the momentum of the pendulum. Over at the mission, the crack extending upward from the center of the great entrance doors to the ceiling has enlarged a little. A crack over the window in the new Museo de la Mision is a little wider, too, and some debris fell. Word has come down from Rancho San Gregorio, in the Sierra de San Francisco to the north, that they had some damage; some pillars fell.

There is a Santa Isabel just north of Mexicali.
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[*] posted on 4-12-2012 at 01:03 PM


We never felt anything here either, Shari, but I heard from some neighbors that folks in G Negro DID .... go figure.




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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 09:34 AM


I just returned last night from camping at Las Animas as part of the the Dana Hills trip. I was sleeping in the back of my truck during the first of the larger quakes, it was very abrupt and not a gentle roller. we were all up and awake for the other quakes/aftershocks. After each quake you could hear many loud rumblings from rockslides on the hills behind us and out at Animas point. It was also cool to see the bioluminesence in the water as it was shaking.

Just after noon on Thursday there was an aftershock and we could see a rockslide and a large dust ploom out at Animas Point as well as a slide on the large hill behind us.

It is kind of weird being so isolated and trying to gather information as to where it was located and if it was something very serious elsewhere.

Nature is cool!
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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 09:51 AM


Thanks for that report from Las Animas!



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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 10:12 AM


David, if anyone might know what feature they always refer to as "Santa Isabel" in that area, it would be you.

Hey, it's another excuse to break out the maps again...................
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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 10:28 AM


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David, if anyone might know what feature they always refer to as "Santa Isabel" in that area, it would be you.

Hey, it's another excuse to break out the maps again...................


Santa Isabel is rancho and an arroyo about 20 miles north of El Arco, on today's maps... just north of Rancho Santa Cruz.. That's all... no town. It is an old ranch and also appears on my 1930 Baja map. For some reason Google Earth used it as a point of reference?

See it just west of San Rafael on the 1930 map... it is about 20 miles west of Bahia San Rafael on the Baja Almanac...




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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 11:07 AM


Oh yeah, now I see. Thanks for that.

Is that peak possibly named Cerro Santa Isabel on other maps?
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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 11:22 AM


I was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom in a house at the south end of the bay near Rincon. Man it was rockin' and rollin'. You could hear it coming like a freight train with the rock slides on the mountains to the east. You could see flashlights come on up and down the coastline. A friend drove around a bit to check on everyone. Damage was suprisingly minimal. Most people slept in their cars or trucks the rest of the night with rattled nerves. In town Thursday everything seemed business as usual. Rumor has it there were more people than usual at the church. :)
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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 12:07 PM


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Oh yeah, now I see. Thanks for that.

Is that peak possibly named Cerro Santa Isabel on other maps?


The one prominent mountain peak you can see from all around is La Sandia, less than 10 miles north of Rancho Santa Isabel.




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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 01:55 PM


I too was in Las Animas the night of the earthquake. The USGS site does not show it, but we felt several (around 10) earthquakes that evening. The two largest were actually events #7 and #9 that evening. My students were scared when the initial quakes occurred, but when reminded that they had nothing to worry about (i.e. a Tsunami, buildings, etc.) they were able to "enjoy the ride" when the two larger ones happened.

Being outside, this was the first time I could actually hear the Earth rumbling. I've always experienced earthquakes indoors, and that rumbling sound is lost to other things making noises. Like mentioned in the earlier post by Doublelimits, that rumbling sound was followed by the sounds of numerous rockslides echoing throughout the bay. Very cool!

When we returned back through LA Bay on Saturday, everything in town was o.k., and there was no noticeable damage to the roads back north.
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[*] posted on 4-16-2012 at 04:17 PM


Thanks for your report... So, no concern of an under-sea landslide or fault upthrust creating a tsunami?



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[*] posted on 4-17-2012 at 09:59 AM


"Thanks for your report... So, no concern of an under-sea landslide or fault upthrust creating a tsunami?"

You need to have water displacement in order to generate a tsunami. Underwater landslides will not, because they are already underwater. Thrust faulting is not common along this region of the plate boundary, as leteral or transform faulting is the norm, thus considerably reducing any potential tsunami threat.
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[*] posted on 4-17-2012 at 10:09 AM


True, Oceanus, but those mountains in Baja were created by something other than lateral faulting, so upthrust or block-faulting is possible, but generally I agree with you in your above statement.

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