Violent submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California!!! M5.5 and M4.4 now, right in volcano !!!

Great find Luis, marked for later reading.

Just once an explosion of gold and copper all over the place... how cool would THAT be?

great read thanks for the find 5*
WAKE UP AMERICA

What do you think, is this connected ?
Magnitude mb 4.7
Region OFF W. COAST OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
Date time 2012-12-14 10:50:18.0 UTC
Location 31.42 N ; 119.57 W
Depth 10 km
Distances 270 km SW Tijuana (pop 1,376,457 ; local time 02:50:18.5 2012-12-14)
260 km W Rosarito (pop 66,020 ; local time 02:50:18.5 2012-12-14)
[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

Scientists find dome of ‘violent’ submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California

ANy connection to this mornings 6.(who cares) quakes that woke me up at a quarter to three?

THANK YOU LUIS!!!
Fantastic find.

Scientists find dome of ‘violent’ submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California

Posted on December 14, 2012

December 14, 2012 – CALIFORNIA – Scientists have discovered one of the world’s weirdest volcanoes on the seafloor near the tip of Baja, Mexico. The petite dome — about 165 feet tall (50 meters) and 4,000 feet long by 1,640 feet wide (1,200 m by 500 m) — lies along the Alarcón Rise, a seafloor-spreading center. Tectonic forces are tearing the Earth’s crust apart at the spreading center, creating a long rift where magma oozes toward the surface, cools and forms new ocean crust. Circling the planet like baseball seams, seafloor-spreading centers (also called mid-ocean ridges) produce copious amounts of basalt, a low-silica content lava rock that makes up the ocean crust. But samples from the newly discovered volcano are strangely rhyolite lava, and have the highest silica content (up to 77 percent) of any rocks collected from a mid-ocean ridge, said Brian Dreyer, a geochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The results were presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovered the volcano this spring, during a three-month expedition to the Gulf of California, the warm stretch of water that separates Baja from mainland Mexico. A remote-control vehicle explored the volcano, which is 7,800 feet (2,375 m) below the surface, and brought samples back to the ship. “When we picked up the rocks and got them back on the ship, we immediately noticed that they were very low density, and they were very light, glassy and gray. They were not the usual dark, black, shiny basalts,” Dreyer told OurAmazingPlanet. “So we immediately knew that something was unusual.” The volcano is primarily rhyolite and a silicic lava called dacite, said MBARI geologist Jennifer Paduan. “To find this along a mid-ocean ridge is a total surprise,” she told OurAmazingPlanet. Boulders and blocks the size of cars and small houses littered the steep slopes of the dome, the robot’s video camera showed. Of more concern is the evidence for explosive volcanism, which is typical of rhyolite volcanoes, Paduan said. “It’s only 100 kilometers [60 miles] from land. When the sun is setting, you can see Cabo,” she said. Both the Baja Peninsula and mainland Mexico near Alarcón Rise have cities and luxury resorts. The Gulf of California is also home to endangered sea life. Rhyolite lava carries more gas and volatiles (things that are likely to cause explosions) than basalt, and when magma meets water, it vaporizes instantly, driving an even more explosive eruption. “There’s definitely explosive deposits there, and that is of extreme concern, given that the ridge is so close to land and the tsunami potential of a big explosion there,” Paduan said. “We don’t know how explosive, and that is something we are definitely trying to figure out.” Rhyolites have been found on spreading centers, but only above hot spots, such as in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, Dreyer said. Hot spots are plumes that bring magma to the surface from deep within Earth’s mantle. There is no hot spot under the Alarcón Rise, he said. Rhyolite lava typically occurs only on continents, such as in Mount St. Helen’s growing dome in Washington. One possible explanation for the bizarre composition of the Alarcón dome is that continental crust snuck into the molten rock below — the spreading center is young, and continental crust lies close by. But tests of different isotopes (versions of elements with differing numbers of neutrons in the cores) in the lava samples revealed no evidence of contamination by continental crust, Dreyer said. –OAP

great read thanks for the find 5*
WAKE UP AMERICA

2.0 @ Old Faithful

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Plus other new developments: quakes in the California are creeping further north, Alaska has had three quakes in areas that have been quiet for a while, and so on.

Nothing quite as clear as the changes ~24 hours before the California 6+ quake(s), but again, this too doesn't look "familiar" to me at all. The patterns are changing.

This one happened in area where I've seen nothing taking place before:

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

My scope of view spans only about 6 months though, started this daily watching in the summer.

Double 5.1 quakes on the central east pacific rise today...didn't it say that the rise is the northern tip of this volcano?

Magnitude M 4.5
Region GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Date time 2012-12-27 13:05:02.7 UTC
Location 24.16 N ; 109.22 W
Depth 10 km
Distances 717 km NW Guadalajara (pop 1,640,589 ; local time 07:05:02.7 2012-12-27)
123 km NE Los cabos (pop 34,883 ; local time 06:05:02.7 2012-12-27)
112 km E La paz (pop 171,485 ; local time 06:05:02.7 2012-12-27)

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

right in this volcano place... [link to static1.emsc.eu]

Louisport.doorbert keep it going,freo

i'm not doorbert...

No Luis, you're not but don't forget this is GLP...everything is a conspiracy here mate !

I've been called a Mossad agent more times than I can't count, you just have to get used to it and keep doing what you do best, bring us news and information !