There was a small earthquake 10.56 miles WSW of South Lake Tahoe near Job’s Peak at 5:55 p.m. Friday, January 6. It was just 1.5 in magnitude and comes on the heels of a large swarm of earthquakes hitting the Hawthorne, Nevada area since December 28, 2016.
According to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, the earthquake was at a depth of 19.57 km.
This is about the same area a 2.4 earthquake occured on September 20, 2016.