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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes up California-Nevada border, regionally largest 'in almost two and a half decades'
Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY
Thu, July 8, 2021, 10:21 PM
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the California-Nevada border Thursday afternoon, with people reporting feeling a jolt hundreds of miles away, as far as the Bay Area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake, reported just south of Lake Tahoe, triggered a series of aftershocks with at least one with a 4.6 magnitude, the USGS said.
Regionally, “this would be the largest one in almost two and a half decades,” according to Graham Kent, director of the University of Nevada, Reno’s seismological lab. “It’s 5.9 and some change — to the average person, it’s a magnitude 6.0.”
Though originally reported as at least two separate earthquakes, the false report came from an automatic systems error, said Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones on Twitter. The USGS revised the report, removing one reported quake a few miles south of Stockton in central California.
“A M~6 quake is usually felt for more than 100 miles so it is not surprising it was felt in the Central Valley," Jones said.
The shaking was felt in at least two states, with more than 20,000 reports coming into the USGS website by 6 p.m. local time.
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Must be a reaction in anticipation of Mark’s arrival !!!! 😯
or maybe Joe swung the ban hammer a bit to hard??????
...One day...
Karma
I used to live there at the foot of Mt. Rose.
Galena?
Well it has been a long time but where Mt. Rose highway turns off of highway 580. I lived at that corner about 1/2 mile from the highway.
I keep hoping for the big one.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Me too. I wanna see where the new Mason-Dixon line is.
That's kinda funny. Acquaintance of mine lived another half mile up the hill. He moved to Ohio.
Found my second wife about four miles up the hill at a ranch. It was a good thirteen years until it wasn't.
Some years all the snow doesn't melt off the north side of Mt. Rose.
There was an old dude ranch up there. I rented the large building that had been the kitchen, dining room area. Large stone fireplace, little stream running down from Mt. Rose through the yard. It was nice.