Expensive Slippin' & Slidin'

Some expensive homes in Southern California are sliding into oblivion and media are reporting that a geologist is preparing to descend 50-ft. beneath the homes in quickly dug holes to figure out why.

The homes are above the Riverside Freeway in the Santa Ana Canyon, near Anaheim. One is 6,000 sq. ft. No small abode. And it's slouching to Gomorrah, so to speak, at the rate of an inch an hour.

Yes, it's been raining and snowing in SoCal, but you have to wonder if the slew of low level earthquakes that have rocked the state in the past few days has had anything to do with it. The media doesn't seem (or doesn't want) to notice the seismic data but you can read it for yourself here:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/32.42.-125.-115.html

There are 247 earthquakes listed on a map that doesn't even include all of California, all of them within the last week (168 hours) and a good number of them in the last three or four days.