The Salton Sea lies about 242 feet below sea level in the Salton Trough, which over thousands of years has cycled between filling with Colorado River water and drying out.

Despite the quake being nonexistent, the USGS had reported detailed information about its location and magnitude, initially saying it had happened at 10:28 a.m. at a depth of 8 kilometers and had ...

If the lake were to completely dry up there would be a horror to behold. While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers showed up in the mud, the Salton Sea contains crashed planes and practice ...

California’s largest and most-polluted lake, the Salton Sea, is exuding hydrogen sulfide, a noxious gas, at rates that greatly exceed the state’s air quality standards. Alarmingly, a new study ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

Ian James, Los Angeles Times Jun 10, 2025 LOS ANGELES — On scorching days when winds blow across the California desert, the Salton Sea regularly gives off a stench of decay resembling rotten eggs.

USGS says it falsely reported Salton Sea earthquake during system test; no quake occurred Paul Albani-Burgio Sam Morgen Palm Springs Desert Sun 0:05 ...