Volcano Source of Earthquake "Swarm" at Baja California Peninsula
Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media
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"Cerro Prieto" volcano formed over 10,000 years ago, and maybe as long as 100,000 years. In the science of geology it is known as a 'geothermal field'. The best known geothermal fields are Yellowstone, Wyoming; ReykjavIk, Iceland; and White Island, New Zealand. Geothermal fields often go hand-in-hand with calderas.
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A caldera is a large, usually circular depression which occurs after the collapse of typical mountain formed volcano. When magma is withdrawn or erupted from a shallow underground magma reservoir, large volumes of magma may result in loss of structural support for the overlying rock, thereby leading to collapse of the ground and formation of a large depression.
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What makes this current event unusual, which has been going on since February 9th, is the number of days, and the size of the seismic events. Usually a swarm may last two or three days, and with lower magnitudes usually in the 1.5 to 3.4 range. The Baja event has been going on for ten days and shows no sign of stopping.
The Cerro Prieto geothermal field is located at the head of the Gulf of California, 35 km south of the city of Mexicali. Cerro Prieto lies in an active continental rift that is transitional between the transform San Andreas fault system to the north and a spreading ridge of the East Pacific Rise in the Gulf of California to the south. The only surficial volcanic feature at Cerro Prieto, which is located near sea level on the Colorado River delta, is a small, 223-m-high compound dacitic lava dome.
A 200-m-wide crater is located at the summit of the NE-most dome. The Cerro Prieto dome was roughly estimated from paleomagnetic evidence to have formed during a series of events between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago. Cucupas Indian legends described a monster that covered the land with hot rocks, which grew through the soil and emitted fire tongues, a possible reference to the growth of the volcano.
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