Small series of earthquakes north of Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Wed, 06/06/2018 - 1:34pm
There have been several earthquakes north of Lake Tahoe today, starting with one that measured 3.1 at 12:32 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the Nevada State Seismology Lab at the University of Nevada Reno, there have been 12 more tremblers as of 1:20 p.m. All are between five miles north of Mt. Rose and Interstate 80.
The Sierra Nevada and Western Nevada experience several earthquakes annually, and in recent years those numbers have been over 22,000 each year, with most of them under 1.0. So far in 2018 there have been over 6,000 measurable events.
See the attached graph from the Nevada State Seismological Lab, or visit http://www.seismo.unr.edu/Earthquake.
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