Earthquakes near Tahoe City, biggest measured 3.51

A series of small earthquakes have been centered around the Tahoe City, California area, the largest being measured at 3.51 early Thursday morning according to data from the Nevada Seismological Laboratory on the University of Nevada campus.

At 12:22 a.m. on July 26, the small trembler hit 5.8 miles NNE of Tahoe City at a depth of 5.7 miles.

Nine other, much smaller quakes have occurred in the last 12 hours, 17 total in the past 10 days. One year ago there was a little swarm in the same area, with 28 minor quakes ranging from a magnitude of 0.6. to 3.7.

Earthquakes are not a rare occurrence in Lake Tahoe and the Sierra as well as Western Nevada.

USGS had the recorded magnitude at 3.7. The UNR lab seismologist said different equipment can result in different results but they are normally within a .5 range.

On the "Did you feel it?" website run by USGS there have been hundreds of replies from Incline Village to Truckee.