NASA Images Showing Continuing Mexico Quake Deformation

[Cheryl Nelson]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-258

August 05, 2010

"New NASA airborne radar images of Southern California near the U.S.-Mexico border show Earth's surface is continuing to deform following the April 4 magnitude, 7.2 temblor and its many aftershocks that have rocked Mexico's state of Baja California and parts of the American Southwest."

[edina]

Hi Cheryl, thanks for posting this, I had to take a little extra time to look more carefully at the image, the article and the JPL site. This paragraph was most interesting to me:

The fact that the Yuha fault has a trend towards the northeast is also significant, Fielding added, because it is very different from the northwest-trending major Elsinore and San Jacinto fault systems and the faults in Mexico that ruptured in the main earthquake. "This adds to evidence that the faults in Mexico are not directly connected to the Elsinore and San Jacinto faults and may explain why the magnitude 7.2 April 4 earthquake stopped before it reached California," he said.

The blue areas are northern movement, the yellow areas are southwest. So, i wonder, what lies between this fault and the Elsinore/San Jacinto faults that prevented this quake from moving on into California. Or, did the stress energy of this quake then transfer energy tension on to one of these other faults? Until I read this article I did not know that scientists were trying to understand why this quake did not reach California. Almost as if they were expecting it to go there.

[Alex Cortes]

What stood out to me immediately was that this information was compiled using two different flights.......what if the flight path deviated by .5% could that cause the differences observed?

[Coedwig the Druid]

Very interesting article. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Coedwig