Small earthquake ten miles from South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 6:23pm
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.
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