Series of earthquakes near Mono Lake Saturday
Submitted by paula on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 10:33am
Many residents of South Lake Tahoe felt it, did you? At 7:37 a.m. Saturday, April 11, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit 15 miles east of Mono Lake near the California/Nevada border.
Mono Lake is 108 miles SSE of Lake Tahoe.
Since that time there have been at least 20 aftershocks, including two that measured 3.6 and a 4.7.
There are seismically active faults in that area including the Sierra Nevada Fault, and the Owens Valley and Lone Pine faults.
To follow more seismic activity in the area, visit the University of Nevada's Seismological lab at http://www.seismo.unr.edu/Earthquake.
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