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  2. Niland Geyser - Wikipedia

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    The "geyser" formed around 1953 [4] [6] about 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Niland [7] in Mundo, [3] just south of Gillespie Road and east of Route 111 and Davis Road. [8] In 2008, David Lynch and Kenneth Hudnut described it as a "Large active shieldlike pot" located on private land at 33°17.117′ -115°34.620' and gave it the designation W9. [9]

  3. Monticello Dam - Wikipedia

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    Monticello Dam is a 304-foot (93 m) high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam impounded Putah Creek to create Lake Berryessa in the Vaca Mountains. Lake Berryessa is currently the seventh-largest man-made lake in California.

  4. Salton Sink - Wikipedia

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    The Salton Sink is the topographic low area within the Salton Trough, an active tectonic pull-apart basin. [1] The Salton Trough is a result of crustal stretching and sinking by the combined actions of the San Andreas Fault and the East Pacific Rise.

  5. Insane video captures sinkhole as it first opens up in ...

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  6. List of California hydrologic regions - Wikipedia

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    California groundwater basins, subbasins, and hydrologic regions. The California Department of Water Resources recognizes 10 hydrologic regions and three additional drainage areas within the U.S. state of California. The hydrologic regions are further subdivided into 515 groundwater basins. [1]

  7. L.A. digs out from mudslides, sinkholes and flooding — with ...

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    The storm also spawned a sinkhole Monday night in Chatsworth that swallowed a car, then a pickup truck. The sinkhole, at least 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep, opened on Iverson Road just off the ...

  8. List of sinkholes - Wikipedia

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    2018 Surabaya City sinkhole – a 30 m (98 ft) wide and 15 m (49 ft) deep sinkhole opened up on Gubeng Road in Surabaya, Indonesia during construction work on December 18, 2018. 2022 Tierra Amarilla sinkhole – a 25 m (80 ft) wide and more than 200 m (700 ft) deep sinkhole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla , Atacama Region of Chile ...

  9. California Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    Natural causes include; earthquakes, erosion, glacial movement, soil compaction and the formation of sinkholes. [ 18 ] Groundwater use and pumping in the area was the major water use for farmers and agriculture in the 1920s, and over time, this over-pumping resulted in land subsidence and a decline in groundwater-level resources.