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Google is going to make it easier to find earthquakes and pinpoint those annoying aftershocks that seemingly make California so hazardous on a minute-by-minute basis to people on the other side of the country. You never know when the "big one" is going to hit and all the land, say west of the Pinnacles National monument is going to splash into the ocean. The average Californian worries about this at least a couple times an hour, probably. The monument now has California condors flying around and it already did split in half, millions of years ago - the northern half of the Pinnacles floated up to Salinas, CA on the Pacific plate. The southern half of the Pinnacles is 195 miles south near Lancaster, California attached to the North American plate.



They're collaborating with the USGS in Menlo Park "science for a changing world" to make it so. No word on whether Beavis is going to be re-engaged to map the San Andreas Fault, after contract talks broke down a few years ago over terms of a potential deal that left Beavis feeling "insulted." Apparently, the backers balked at giving carbon-based life-form perquisites to an animated character.

Labels: beavis, condor, neenach, usgs, volcano

"Show me someone who likes stream deposits and I'll show you an alluvial fan," say geologists.

Millions of people worldwide have settled on alluvial fans, not always a good idea. Alluvial fans (USGS, 1999) form at the base of mountains where fast-flowing streams meet relatively-flat surfaces of basin floors or broad valleys.

Alluvial fans in Death Valley
The Sangre de Cristo range, Colorado
The San Francisquito Creek watershed, Bay Area
In Pakistan...

Fast flowing Debris flows can occur in alluvial fan areas.


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Labels: alluvial, CognitiveLabs, debris, fans, la, laughter, losangeles, saltlake, sarno, sediment, usgs, vargas

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Rocks move without human or mechanical intervention. In fact, they are blown by the wind across the rain soaked Playa - only under certain conditions.

Labels: death valley, the racetack, usgs