Series of earthquakes near shores of Walker Lake
Submitted by paula on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 7:08am
The Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada Reno reports a series of small aftershocks after a 4.1 earthquake at 3:00 a.m. at Walker Lake, 12 miles northwest of the town of Hawthorne. It was located 6.76 miles under the surface.
This one followed a series of over 100 small earthquakes that surrounded a 4.3 last week and a 3.1 quake on Monday morning.
Since the early morning quake Tuesday there have been seven smaller ones, the largest of which measured 2.8 at the UNR lab.
Nevada is an active seismological area, with 3,053 earthquakes in the past year according to earthquaketrack.com. In comparison, California had 7,308 earthquakes in the past year.
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