Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Keeler area Earthquakes

It appears as though starting at 3:01 a.m. today Oct. 1 st.
a swarm of Earthquakes has hit the Whitney area.

The biggest was 5.1.

I always worry about that when I am in a precarious position: under rockfall, on top of a jumble of rock, etc. I hope there were not issues.

According to this "shake map", it would have been lightly felt around the summit area.

CaT

is that what happened to the Whitney Cam???

Interesting...looks like a bit of a swarm of small quakes up at the west end of the Long Valley Caldera (Mammoth Lakes). Nothing you could feel at the surface but a bunch of little quivers. Wonder if the two are related?

The Whitney Cam has been off-kilter and out of focus for the last several days. My poor eyes are being deprived of such splendor.

A portend to the series of seismal events?

Wonder if The Whit wiggled wee upwards...

Careful up on the mountain... another series of earthquakes just happened near Keeler largest 5.2.


Carol

The cats noticed the newest @6:23 pm, Friday, here in Fresno. Before I felt it.

My bird usually is the first to alert me.

16 Earthquakes over 3.1 since 3 am yesterday.


Carol

And most all of these have been incredibly shallow, as well -- some at a depth of as little as 0.1 km.

Maybe one of the quakes will rupture down to magma and we'll get some oozing. California might be overdue for a huge earthquake, it's even more overdue for a volcano eruption. I'd be there, or near as I could get, with camera. Let her rip!

Since the initial 5.0 quake on 10/1, there have been a total of 255 quakes of any size at that spot, to date.

Nifty map showing the earthquake swarms there:

http://anf.ucsd.edu/spevents/2009/274/b/

Well, if there is any huge eruption, I would not want to be anywhere east of the event due to the gulf stream.

This is a very informative animated map showing the sequence
of the swarm.
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Anim/canv.html

FWIW - we've not felt them, and we're 41 miles away.

We've been watching on the usgs site also & looks like the area is hoppin' but you say you haven't felt anything?

that's good, my husband & crew is heading up Thursday. Hoping it will be geologically calmer by then.

I was in the elevation gear store in LP Friday night a little after 6. The first jolt was like a truck going by. The next couple of jolts were like being on a boat. Gets your attention....