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Series of earthquakes near Mono Lake Saturday

Many residents of South Lake Tahoe felt it, did you? At 7:37 a.m. Saturday, April 11, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit 15 miles east of Mono Lake near the California/Nevada border.

Mono Lake is 108 miles SSE of Lake Tahoe.

Since that time there have been at least 20 aftershocks, including two that measured 3.6 and a 4.7.

There are seismically active faults in that area including the Sierra Nevada Fault, and the Owens Valley and Lone Pine faults.

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