The source here is believed to be the Salton Sea area, a known volcanically active region of California. Let's clarify for the reporters here, dead fish don't smell like sulphur. Sulphur has long been known as a precursor to volcanic activity. Interesting stuff.
When the rotten egg smell wafted into the Santa Clarita United Methodist
Church in Saugus on Monday morning, Kathy Gray thought the church's sewer pipe
had burst.
"It reeks," he said. "It smells like rotten mush."
Read the full story at - http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salton-stench-20120911,0,1741880.story
More than 70 miles to the east, steelworker Chris
Tatum's nostrils got the punch in Riverside. He assumed a brush fire
had just broken out.
Read the full story at - http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salton-stench-20120911,0,1741880.story
