Southern California Covered In A Cloud Of Stink
When the rotten egg smell wafted into the Santa Clarita United Methodist Church in Saugus on Monday morning, Kathy Gray thought the church’s sewer pipe had burst.
More than 70 miles to the east, steelworker Chris Tatum’s nostrils got the punch in Riverside. He assumed a brush fire had just broken out.
“It reeks,” he said. “It smells like rotten mush.”
Southern California awoke Monday morning to a foul odor that wouldn’t go away.
Residents clogged 911 lines with calls, prompting health officials from Ventura County to Palm Springs to send investigators looking for everything from a toxic spill to a sewer plant leak.
The prime suspect, however, lay more than 100 miles away from Los Angeles. The leading theory is that the stink was caused by the annual die-off of fish in the Salton Sea. Officials believe Sunday evening’s thunderstorms and strong winds churned up the water and pushed that dead-fish smell to points west overnight.
Officials from the Air Quality Management District and other agencies said they have never dealt with a stench quite like this. Although the fish die-off usually causes foul odors in parts of the Inland Empire, officials cannot recall it traveling this far.
“It’s very unusual that any odor would be this widespread, from the Coachella to Los Angeles County,” said Sam Atwood, spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. “We’re talking well over 100 miles. I can’t recall ever confirming an odor traveling that distance.”
The Salton Sea did track 40-mph winds Sunday night, and officials said that probably served as a trigger.
“The winds could have stirred up the water,” said Bill Meister, president of the Sea and Desert Interpretive Assn. “Because the lake is so shallow, and there is 100 years worth of decayed material at the bottom, you’d get that rotten egg smell.”
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As I recall from several vacation visits to seismically active areas like St.Lucia, Rotorua, Yellowstone etc, the smell of rotten eggs is indicative also of sulphur gas H2S
(in U.S. parlance SULFUR) release accompanied by gas/steam venting indicating seismic activity.
Isn’t the SALTON SEA on the San Andreas Fault? Aren’t there signs of Earthquake clusters all around the area of Southwest California?
Isn’t it more likely this is another sign of seismic activity continuing and developing which the authorities either don’t understand or, as is more likely, don’t want to know.
Bingo…yes the videos are already out there. Southern California 1KM visible satellite loops show gas venting along the earthquake faults running on both sides of the Salton Sea. In the infrared, the gases were indeed hot, indicating they came from depth. Does it mean earthquake? I would think so, but I don’t know if the correlation is backed up by historical data, my gut instinct says yes.
Happened during the deadly 1811 New Madrid quake too: http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2012/03/sulfur-smell-new-madrid-fault-region.html
I wondered why no one is taking about the caldera threat there?
It’s the smell of millions of stinking, third world, illegal alien, sub-human animals.
In reality, it is due to major faults rupturing. All people have to do is look back in history and they will read about this phenomena preceding many major earthquakes. The gov knows what this means just as they know what the recent earthquake swarms mean. Don’t know why they are not talking about it and frankly, I don’t really care. The sooner a good 9.0+ hits CA and wipes out millions of illegal aliens and liberals, the better!
Maybe this is what a ‘socialist sewer’ smells like!LOL
Sure this smell didn’t come from Hollywood, Oakland or Sans Fran?
It’s all BS that government try to push on us. I live in CA Ventura county, and we have that smell one week before the” wind from the lake”.
So is it methane? If so, are the authorities sure that the Salton Sea is the culprit? My understanding is that as the seas warm the frozen methane captured thousands of years ago is thawing and being released into the atmosphere to compound the warming problem.
methane is odorless.
Everyone relax,it is just that Janet Reno ‘queefed’.
Alot of people saying signs of seismic activity indicating an earthquake is imminent…I tend to suspect this
Personally, I would be scared to death if I lived in California…just sayin’…
Those in SoCal should at least know the basics of earthquake survival already. Get in the triangle space next to a large heavy object not under stuff.
Or just take a road trip outta there.
LA County sits on silt 7 miles deep. Being there during the 5.9 Whittier Quake in ’87, the house was like a boat being tossed about by waves for over 30 seconds. A mild one but still not a pleasant feeling and people died from whatnot crazy stuff.
Sulfur odors are definitely a headzup.
A friend discovered huge piles of dead mussels on the beach in Coronado yesterday. She was mystified how they could’ve gotten there. Could this die-off be connected to this current set of dots ? Same with the algae & fish die off in the Salton Sea?
This is not to engender fear — it’s just so people might have a chance to be alert. Nature usually gives us fair warning. Let’s hope we can connect the dots correctly and in a timely manner.
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Southern California Covered In A Cloud Of Stink.
Yea, nothing new here. Is the a re post of the article from 1901?