{"id":40181,"date":"2018-11-06T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40181"},"modified":"2018-11-06T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:48:54","slug":"san-andreas-fault-line-an-unstoppable-geyser-of-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40181","title":{"rendered":"San Andreas Fault Line: An Unstoppable Geyser Of Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/san-andreas-fault-line-an-unstoppable-geyser-of-mud_11052018\">San Andreas Fault Line: An Unstoppable Geyser Of Mud<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63675\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mudgeyser-e1541423121694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An unstoppable geyser of mud is continuously pouring from the San Andreas fault line and slowly creeping across California. The troublesome mud in California\u2019s Imperial County has caused local authorities to declare it an emergency earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-bubbling-pool-of-mud-is-slowly-creeping-across-california-and-nothing-can-stop-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s called the Niland Geyser, according to<em> Science Alert<\/em>,<\/a> and it\u2019s exactly that, a geyser of bubbling mud.\u00a0But there\u2019s a strange twist \u2013 this menacing puddle has been slowly creeping across the ground, to the point where it\u2019s now threatening railroad tracks and a state highway.\u00a0The Niland Geyser had first appeared in California in\u00a01953\u00a0but it sat around without incident for decades.\u00a0Then, around 11 years ago, things began to change. The geyser started moving across the dry ground at a glacial pace.<\/p>\n<p>But now, suddenly, things are starting to get serious where the mud geyser is concerned. In the last six months, the geyser\u2019s pace has picked up considerably. In just a few months, the Niland Geyser\u2019s mud has traveled 18.3 meters (60 feet). It traveled another 18 meters in a single day \u2013 bringing it ever closer to Union Pacific\u2019s railway tracks, State Route 111, a petroleum pipeline, and some fiber-optic telecommunications lines.<\/p>\n<p>The mud has so far traveled\u00a0roughly 73 meters (240 feet) from where it all began a decade ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-niland-mud-pot-20181101-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em> called the mysterious mud geyser<\/a> a \u201cslow-moving disaster.\u201d However,\u00a0U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Ken Hudnut, who visited the moving spring in July, has said there\u2019s no evidence that this is a sign that the \u201cBig One\u201d is approaching.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a slow-moving disaster,\u201d said Alfredo Estrada, Imperial County\u2019s fire chief, and emergency services coordinator. But not because it could cause a massive quake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Andreas Fault Line: An Unstoppable Geyser Of Mud An unstoppable geyser of mud is continuously pouring from the San Andreas fault line and slowly creeping across California. The troublesome mud in California\u2019s Imperial County has caused local authorities to declare it an emergency earlier this year. It\u2019s called the Niland Geyser, according to Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,6489,22821,6490,14080,3428],"class_list":["post-40181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-mac-slavo","tag-niland-geyser","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-the-san-andreas-fault","tag-us-geological-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40182,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181\/revisions\/40182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}