[Rockhounds] Migrating Mud Pool Threatens Railroad Tracks, Pipeline, and Road (California)

[Paul]

This is an unusual geological hazard.

The start of the San Andreas fault is hit by the 'slow one': Sunken
sinkhole of bubbling mud is moving across Salton Sea destroying
everything in its path. The Daily Mail, November 2, 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6343583/The-bubbling-stinking-mud-pool-cause-chaos-San-Andreas-fault.html

A San Andreas fault mystery: The 'slow-moving disaster' in an
area where the Big One is feared by Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2018
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-niland-mud-pot-20181101-story.html

A Gurgling Mud Pool Is Creeping Across Southern California
Like a Geologic Poltergeist By Laura Geggel, Live Science, November 2, 2018
https://www.livescience.com/63998-mud-pool-creeping-across-california.html

Geyser Emergency Project - Fact Sheet
http://www.icphd.org/media/managed/newsrelease/Geyser_Emergency_Project_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Someone needs to to tell the reporters and officials that
mud pots / springs are not "geysers."

Some papers:

Lynch, D.K. and Hudnut, K.W., 2008. The Wister mud pot lineament:
Southeastward extension or abandoned strand of the San Andreas fault?.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98(4), pp.1720-1729.
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/12061/1/LYNbssa08.pdf
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/98/4/1720/341930

Mazzini, A., Svensen, H., Etiope, G., Onderdonk, N. and Banks, D., 2011.
Fluid origin, gas fluxes and plumbing system in the sediment-hosted
Salton Sea Geothermal System (California, USA). Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research, 205(3-4), pp.67-83.
http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Mazzini_JVGR_11.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377027311001405

Onderdonk, N., Mazzini, A., Shafer, L. and Svensen, H., 2011. Controls on
the geomorphic expression and evolution of gryphons, pools, and caldera
features at hydrothermal seeps in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field,
southern California. Geomorphology, 130(3-4), pp.327-342.
http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Onderdonk_GeoM_2011_Salton_seeps.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X11001838

Yours,

Paul H.