!!ALERT!! - 4+ Activity In Ancient Caldera Off the Texas Boarder!!

I KNOW!! WHEEEEEEEEE~~~~~~~!~~~~~!~~~~~!~!!~!~!~!~~~~!!!!

Interesting and unsettling...
Texas is rarely on the seismic reports.

Gaia is ready to bust a move!!!

I hope this isnt' Magma Activity Myaan!?
But I think it may be as no-one felt any of these Earthquakes and they are all in the same Location!?

I hope Im' wrong.

Strange Times We Live In Indeed!

I drove all over that region a year ago and was amazed at the ancient seismic evidence in the hills that got cut away for highways! MAJOR shifts in the crust! and there was also visible evidence of the lava shafts coming up to the surface.

lava shafts are moving over much of the planet now. Or lava tubes as I call them. Lava tubes were responsible in Arkansas with the fish and bird kills a few months ago.

this map shows the location very well:

[link to neic.usgs.gov]

uh, 350 calderas. that's a bit creepy.

"The Tomochic caldera, located in western Chihuahua, is one of perhaps 350 calderas in the Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic field."
[link to bulletin.geoscienceworld.org]

LooK at OP's date on link??????

I am sure if that 9. in Japan moved underground water tables around world and axis it did so much more than that-good find

I never call for posts to be pinned, so this is a first.

Things are getting stranger by the day! That EQ is nowhere near an active fault zone, it's in an area that has no modern day seismic history yet has managed to produce a sizeable, shallow quake.

This is very disturbing. Something is waking up... globally.

ooooooh, there be gold and silver in them dar hills:

"The Tomochic area records volcanic activity from 34.5 to 28.9 Ma and contains at least three calderas. These include the Tomochic caldera, a strikingly well preserved, resurgent caldera approximately 20 by 25 km in diameter. The north structural margin of the Tomochic caldera cuts the intracaldera facies of an ash‐flow tuff related to the older Las Varas caldera. Epithermal precious‐metal fissure‐veins are located where the Tomochic structural margin cuts this older unit. A third structure, the Corallitos caldera, is located only a few kilometers to the northeast. Reconnaissance studies in far western Chihuahua indicate the existence of a large (40 km) resurgent caldera centered on the village of Ocampo. Landsat imagery shows a well developed arcuate drainage pattern, and maps of the area show a distribution of lithologies that is consistent with the caldera interpretation. Gold and silver deposits, hosted almost exclusively in precaldera rocks, are best developed where the older rocks are cut by faults of the caldera's ring‐fracture zone and resurgent dome. In general, the calderas thus far mapped in western Mexico follow the Valles‐type resurgent caldera model. Variations, however, of the ideal caldera cycle are common, as are repetitions of the cycle to form caldera complexes. All of the better‐known calderas have associated mineral deposits, although they may be best developed in precaldera rocks."

[link to europa.agu.org]

Really!?
I hope this isnt' Magma Activity but it seems it may be as no-one felt any of them and they are all 4+ and at the same Depth - 10(ish)Kms and all in the same spot give or take a km or so..

!!Gulp!!

I think I felt that earthquake last night. Just barely. I was what's that?

Did you notice the bulletin is from 1985?

here's another map:

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

more maps of that area and the quake:
[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

well, there was one last night:

"Magnitude 4.2
Date-Time Tuesday, May 03, 2011 at 02:58:30 UTC
Monday, May 02, 2011 at 08:58:30 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 30.677°N, 105.767°W
Depth 10.6 km (6.6 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO"

sure the bulletin that tells you geologic history of that system of calderas is from 1985, but the earthquake was last night.

"GSA Bulletin; December 1985; v. 96; no. 12; p. 1477-1482; DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1985)96<1477:GAGOTT>2.0.CO;2
© 1985 Geological Society of America"

EARTHQUAKE:
[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

What do you mean!?

What about the date?..because it was written in 85?

This could be really something..I havent' checked the Seismic Activity of of any of the other Ancient Calderas around Our World spare Yellowstone..perhaps someone else should help take a look.

Cheers!

Thank you!..Some people obviously didnt' look at Both Links before Commenting!

Cheers.

Didnt' you look at both Links provided?..if not then go back and take a look..
Im' no Bullshit Artist and I try to make sure everything I post is Accurate and Concise.

Cheers!

wow

exactly
it maters not when the info was put together about the caldera
what matters is that there is new swarms right on top of it!

Last Edited by NiNzrez on 05/03/2011 09:37 PM

Thank You!
And Thank You also for Your Threads on Solar/Magnetosphere Activity..Good Stuff!

glad you like it :)
we have great group effort

There has been seismic activity in the area before and a few studies conducted on them. Google.