The southern end of the San Andreas Fault is a concern for all geologists and earthquake enthusiasts alike and this is because this section has the power to unleash Southern California’s most dangerous volcano, The Salton Sea Volcano.
The Salton Sea Volcano lies at the Southern Salton Sea, at the end of the San Andreas Fault. It however it not the end of the tectonic plate, which is what the San Andreas Fault is. The San Andreas Fault is the fault name in California for the "INTERSECTION" of the North American and Pacific Plate".
In reality the San Andreas fault extends way into Mexico because that is where the tectonic plate goes.
The Salton Sea Volcano has a magma chamber below the surface measured at over 15 miles wide.
This magma chamber dwarfs in comparison to Yellowstone’s super volcano, but never-the-less this eruption would be bigger than Mt. Pinatubo … 1991 in the Philippines, a volcano that was way more powerful than Mt. St. Helens.
The movie embedded in this shows a demonstration of the San Andreas Fault’s past, present, and future.
The volcanic systems can all be seen here.
The Los Angeles Basin and High Desert were a rift valley zone, where the plate allowed magma to rise up and create major lava lakes.
The “S” bend of the San Andreas Fault is to blame for this. As this closed up, the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Mountains were formed due to uplift.
Now the San Andreas Fault is continuing to bring those mountains up, but at the southern end near the Salton Sea a rift is opening. This rift is what is causing the seismic activity there.
If a major earthquake hit the Southern San Andreas Fault then it is possible that the volcanic system (magma chamber) would be disturbed. If it does so, the volcano will erupt.
Ash from this would likely go east toward Phoenix, AZ … however in a monsoonal or Santa Ana Wind pattern it will push back into San Diego and Los Angeles, causing a lot of problems with ash that would collapse houses.
The Salton Sea is Southern California’s mini Yellowstone … and there is a monster lurking below it. Residents over the last 5 years have smelled what scientists say is a fish die off … but rather it could be the volcanic gases escaping.
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