Small earthquake near Emerald Bay Tuesday evening
Submitted by paula on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 10:16pm
The Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno is reporting a 2.4 magnitude earthquake on the South Shore near Emerald Bay.
It was recorded at 10:03 p.m. Tuesday, September 20.
This is just one of nine small earthquake in Northern Nevada in the last 12 hours, one of 23 in the last 24 hours. The South Lake Tahoe event was the largest of those.
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