seismology
Did you feel it? Series of quakes 180 miles away from South Lake Tahoe wake residents
Submitted by paula on Fri, 05/15/2020 - 7:28am
The University of Nevada Reno Seismology Lab is reporting a series of earthquakes between the towns of Mina and Tonopah, Nevada early Friday morning, the largest a 6.5 magnitude.
Many people around Lake Tahoe say the 4:00 a.m. earthquake woke them up.
It has been followed by, so far, 15 strong aftershocks measuring 3.1 to 5.4 have occurred. The USGS website has over 15,000 comments in their "Did You Feel It" section from Reno to the San Francisco Bay Area and down to Bakersfield and Las Vegas.
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.
Small earthquakes north of Incline Village
Submitted by paula on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 8:20am
he Sierra Nevada are not stranger to earthquakes, and recent swarms of quakes in the Carson Valley, Mammoth Lakes and Donner Lake are not out of the ordinary.
Overnight, a few of those earthquakes hit in around the North Shroe of Lake Tahoe.
Overnight shaking a sign that Lake Tahoe is earthquake country
Submitted by paula on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:28am
People from the Central Valley of California to the middle of Nevada felt several earthquakes overnight, with the two largest recorded at 5.7 magnitude, followed by 73 other tremblors between midnight and 9:30 a.m. December 28, 2016.
Thousands of Nevada earthquakes kept seismologists busy in 2015
Submitted by paula on Thu, 12/31/2015 - 6:30pm
If you live in Nevada, chances are you felt an earthquake in 2015. The University of Nevada, Reno's Seismological Laboratory said there were 17,500 earthquakes in the state during the year, 231 of those recently in south Reno.
South Tahoe High graduate Graham Kent in the director of the Nevada Seismological Lab. "While the Reno shaking is fresh in our minds, what's really bumping the number up from the background rates is the energetic sequence in far northwestern Nevada, the Sheldon sequence," he said.
Tohoku grim reminder of potential for Pacific Northwest megaquake
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:36amThe March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake is a grim reminder of the potential for another strong-motion mega-earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast, geophysicist John Anderson of the University of Nevada, Reno told members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in a lecture at their annual conference in Vancouver, B.C. Sunday.
'Great ShakeOut' public earthquake drill registration begins
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:54am
All California and Nevada residents, businesses, schools and organizations are urged to register now to be part of the world’s largest public earthquake drill - “The Great ShakeOut.” The University of Nevada, Reno’s Seismology Laboratory is again teaming Nevada up with California and new partners Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia and Guam to build awareness and get residents to practice how to respond in an earthquake.
