Three earthquakes with magnitudes of 3.7, 3.8 and 3.5, strike near Mammoth Lakes in California

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Mammoth Lakes, in California’s Central Valley, is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, as well as thousands of people who had no idea that they were living above an active volcano. On December 8, 2017, 3 earthquakes – M3.7, M3.8 and M3.5 – struck about 20 miles southeast of Mammoth Lakes, California near the Nevada border. The two last quakes hit within 30 minutes and were preceded by the 3.7-magnitude quake earlier Friday in the same location in a cluster of faults between Bishop and Mammoth Lakes.

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The Long Valley Caldera eruption. via All News Pipeline

Mammoth Lakes is nestled within the Long Valley Caldera, grenaded into the Earth when the volcano blew up several thousand years ago. People figured that the steam vents, hot springs, mineral deposits and tectonic shifts were all just part of living in California, much in the same way that drowning is just part of living at the bottom of the ocean.

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  1. Is it true that in those areas there is high concentration of methane, and can it explode everything at any time?

  2. […] 25 million southern Californian’s breathing in dangerous levels of PM particles 30 times finer than a human hair which causes heart attacks strokes cancer and respiratory diseases. Three earthquakes with magnitudes of 3.7, 3.8 and 3.5, strike near Mammoth Lakes in California […]

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