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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nevada Monday afternoon, ... The quake struck 15 miles north-northeast of the town of Yerington, about 40 miles east of Carson City, at 3:08 p.m. local time ...
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Nevada on Monday afternoon was strong enough to rattle homes in California. The earthquake hit 15 miles outside Yerington, about 40 miles east of Carson City ...
Yerington is a city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. The population was 3,048 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] It is the current county seat of Lyon County, with the first county seat having been established at Dayton on November 29, 1861. [ 5 ]
Foreshock of the April earthquake. 1914 Reno earthquakes [11] April 24, 1914 Reno 6.4 M fa Several people fainted. Major damage. [10] 1914 Reno earthquakes [12] October 2, 1915 Tobin Range 6.8 M w 7.6 M s Limited damage. 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake [13] [14] December 21, 1932 Cedar Mountain: 6.8 M w 7.2 M Limited damage. 1932 Cedar Mountain ...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck in a remote area of Nevada on Monday afternoon sent shaking throughout Central California, including the Sacramento area.
Nevada National Security Site officials in April 2019 assured the public that the Device Assembly Facility on the Nevada security site was safe from earthquake threats. In contrast, Nevada officials claimed seismic activity in the region made it unsafe for the storage of nuclear waste. [118]
On December 16 at 3:07 a.m. PST, [16] the largest earthquake in the sequence, the M w 7.3 earthquake was triggered by oblique-slip displacement along the Fairview Peak, West Gate and Gold King Fault, and Louderback Mountain Faults for a total length of 100 km, of which 14 km intersects the rupture zone of the 1932 Cedar Mountain earthquake.
A middle-of-the-night 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the Reno area in Nevada, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 4-mile deep quake hit 4 miles from Spanish Springs, northeast of Reno, at 1 ...