The Volatile San Andreas Fault, Part II of II: Mission Creek
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2022
- Heading into the Coachella Valley, which hasn't had a quake along the San Andreas for about 280 years. Scientists have their eyes on the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas which, they have discovered recently, has an alarming slip rate. There's been a lot of development in the low desert of California in recent decades, but the area may, unfortunately, be the epicenter for the next big quake.
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at 0:15 I referred to the San Jacintos as a transverse range. This is incorrect as they are one of the peninsular ranges which extend to the Baja Peninsula. We are coming out of the big bend in the Coachella Valley where the San Andreas resumes its normal south south east direction. Thanks to viewers for pointing this out!
Yes, you are right! It does go through the Salton Sea (basically under the Salton Sea) hits Brawley California and then goes off passes by Holtville, CA then it goes down to Mexicali, Mexico and into Baja California waters!!👍👍
My sister has a very nice large home in Desert hot springs. She's 65 now, the house was built in 2004. I live in Yucaipa and I'm 63. .and very close to the San Andreas fault too.. just hope it doesn't go off in our lifetime !
I also live in Yucaipa, on the north bench within a mile of the San Andreas. I’m sure you’ve heard that they are building a senior complex right on the San Andreas. The greed in this town is outrageous.
I've been enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work! I read an article awhile back, don't recall the source, where balancing rocks have been found closer to these 2 strands than they normally are found around active faults. The theory is that when one of the strands slips or has an earthquake, some of the energy "steps over" to the other strand, reducing the amount of shaking in the area.
The resort is called two bunch palms.
A famous spot for Al Capone and many other famous actors and actresses
Awesome!
Thanks for a great video. I live in the area and I've never really explored the fault lines although I'm really fascinated by them. The fossil finds in the San Timoteo Badlands are quite fascinating too. Hope you produce some more videos about our area. Cheers!
Good stuff. I live in the areas and have said for years I feel mission creek will be the epicenter of a large quake. If I may point out something you didnt mention. Right there in DHS the fault is built right along and sometimes crosses the colorado river aqueduct. Just thought I would throw that in here.
Had a relative that lived in DHS, the fault line went right through a corner of his back yard. Ended up selling and moving to LA Quinta...
My dad owned a house in that new golf course subdivision before the housing crash of 2008, and I'm certain beyond a doubt that the developers didn't know about the Mission Creek strand of the SAF. If they had followed the fault gouge from Indio to the Miracle Springs Resort they would've been able to at least do a survey; but what was done was done.
Miracle Springs Resort owes its existence to the Mission Creek strand. On the NE side the water comes out crystal clear and cold and provides much of the water for the city and for the resort; on the SW side hot springs come up from the fault and provide the hot water for their spas.
Thanks for a great video , no doubt gonna get very "interesting" for a lot of People some day , my Wife was in the East Bay area for the Loma Prieta "event" , didn't sound all that fun to me.......
What's the link to that kml file? I can't find it on the USGS site.
www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/faults under Downloads. It downloads as a zip compressed .kmz file then decompresses to .kml.
i had a map of all the revealed faults at the time put out by the national geographic mag. it showed in theory that all faults are interconnected via the lithosphere .if those strands were ever to let loose , ohm my goodness.
That line is deceiving because the fault itself is jagged on both sides grinding against each other. The liquefaction zone on both sides is potentially one mile or more. The salton sea is a giant sag pond deep enough to have volcanic seepage in the form of mud volcanism with the potential for an actual volcano because the fault is spreading apart while it moves laterally. I have a basket ball size piece of volcanic glass obsidian from the area. This pulling apart and seepage is most evident in the Sea of Cortez which is a continuation of the San Andreas. The faults there look like a giant saw blade. It makes sense that the total destruction zone would be at least as wide as the salton sea. I wouldn't own any of those buildings.
Ohh wow... My college body Jim Oliger from CSUSB was living in that gated golf course community with his wife Diana! I have been there. I was in their wedding.
My dad owned a unit there on the west side of the golf course; I had a peek at it in 2005 before he had to dump it on account of the 2008 housing crash. His other house was much further up the hill on the NE side of Desert Hot Springs, off Mission Lakes Blvd and La Paloma.
DHS is a newer town. They knew and didn't care. Money rules everything! They built knowing and people bought these homes and can't get Earthquake insurance. Gotta love it.
You can see it from Google Earth if you know what your looking at. Your line is a little off from what I found, but very close. It comes out of the hills across the city just above the new high school and goes across the golf course just below that white storage building in the golf course. I was looking at homes in the Mission lake's neighborhood, it's not gated and not mansions but nice mostly older 1970s &80s homes of varying sizes.
I was telling a customer of mine, worked in home furnishings in outside of Sacramento at Macy's and sold a rug to a guy who is a geologist and told me before I bought anything to look up the fault lines, boy was I surprised. that subdivision has a gated neighborhood up high nextdoor to it I was looking at too, very nice views up there, the fault line goes out through that neighborhood and on towards San Bernardino. It's about 1200 ft elevation up there, with nice views, needless to say I didn't move up there.
That is not "my line" in the video. It was drawn by scientists with the US Geological Survey. I have since learned that the Mission Creek fault can be delineated visually by a rise in water table on one side. Hence the oasis of palms that line the fault in the Indio area.
@@westernexplorer yours was very close but the one I saw, it came across the mission lake CC golf course just below the clubhouse and out through that newer gated community, your's went through the clubhouse. let me tell you, I'm glad I met that geologist and hadn't bought there yet. Everything from up there above mission lake's Blvd is over 1200 ft elevation and the views are spectacular and mostly 6 figures less than across the I-10.
I'm just surprised that school district built a new highschool so close to the fault line
It confused me when you pronounced "Coachella" close to correct. No one pronounces it 100%.