01 May 2008 09:43:44

Turby

Hey, Sully! Have you been eating beans or what?

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco.html -- Turby the Turbosurfer

01 May 2008 10:58:09

Mike Sullivan

Re: Hey, Sully! Have you been eating beans or what?

"Turby" <turbosurfer@beach.comber > wrote in message news:cnsj14pd5rh54lesfm6lvf0sou26vin4c7@4ax.com... > > > http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco.html Earthquakes on the hour in Geysers area. Never feel them at our house, though only 15 miles or so as crow flies. Producing steam power plant there, treated waste water from city of Clearlake and from City of Santa Rosa is pumped deep into the ground after the aquifer steamed away several years ago. Good guess that cool water injected into hot hot rock causes some rumbling! Our area has a few hot springs left, but not like in the heyday in the early 20th century when it was THE destination for the idle rich. There were a number of large hotels and resorts with hot springs, mineral springs, hot mud, etc. Still can find foundations of some of them that are now in parkland, and a couple trickles of hot springs here and there. One hot spring boils right out of the lake into a grotto. here's some good reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Konocti My house is on the right side of where pic was taken. B is an Earth Sciences major, after our last bsurf session I got a really cool class instruction over breakfast about the geology of our area.

05 May 2008 00:25:16

George_of_the_Jungle

Re: Hey, Sully! Have you been eating beans or what?

On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:58:09 -0700, "Mike Sullivan" <sul@slacSNIP.stanford.edu > wrote: > >"Turby" <turbosurfer@beach.comber> wrote in message >news:cnsj14pd5rh54lesfm6lvf0sou26vin4c7@4ax.com... >> >> >> http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco.html > >Earthquakes on the hour in Geysers area. Never feel them at our house, >though >only 15 miles or so as crow flies. > >Producing steam power plant there, treated waste water from city of >Clearlake and from City of Santa Rosa is pumped deep into the ground >after the aquifer steamed away several years ago. Good guess that >cool water injected into hot hot rock causes some rumbling! > >Our area has a few hot springs left, but not like in the heyday in the >early 20th century when it was THE destination for the idle rich. There >were a number of large hotels and resorts with hot springs, mineral springs, >hot mud, etc. Still can find foundations of some of them that are now in >parkland, and a couple trickles of hot springs here and there. > >One hot spring boils right out of the lake into a grotto. > >here's some good reading. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Konocti My house is on the >right side of where pic was taken. > >B is an Earth Sciences major, after our last bsurf session I got a really >cool class instruction over breakfast about the geology of our area. > > > Hope springs eternal that the earth sciences will one day get decent funding. I just talked with a structural geologist who's closing down her antiques shop and going into on line business. The earth sciences are wonderful when the jobs are there.