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97083
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: what's happening North West of Reno NV
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3.1 2023/06/01 17:28:07 39.622N 119.971W 6.3 7 km ( 4 mi) S of Cold Springs, NV 4.0 2023/06/01 17:23:05 39.614N 119.980W 7.1 7 km ( 5 mi) S of Cold Springs, NV |
97103
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
| this area is still bouncing. makes me wonder if their is a relation to the swarm at Mt.Hood today. |
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97086
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
| Its quite a swarm going on |
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97085
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/external_grants/reports/01HQGR0167.pdf
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Peavine Peak is no stranger to sizable earthquakes. The western Nevada region has a high level of historical seismic activity that includes many large-magnitude events (Fig. 2), and two magnitude 6 earthquakes have occurred within 15 km of the Peavine Peak fault. Some background earthquakes (M<4) have occurred around the western half of the fault, whereas the area around the eastern half of the fault has a low level of seismicity. The largest historical earthquake proximal to the Peavine Peak fault is the 1995 Mw 4.5 Border Town earthquake (Ichinose et al., 1997), which had an epicenter about 2 km west of the northern end of the fault (Fig. 3). Similar to much of the western U.S., Nevada has a short historical period. The first settlers arrived in the region in 1850 as a consequence of the California Gold Rush. Settlement increased with discovery of the Comstock Lode at Virginia City in 1860, but the population of the region remained low until well into the 1900s. Most of the larger historical earthquakes in the region occurred prior to the early 1900s. Because the area was so sparsely populated at the time, there are few accounts of these events and uncertainties about locations and sizes are very high. Instrumental seismicity became complete at a magnitude 3 level in about 1960, when seismographs were installed in western Nevada. |
97090
From: jordan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
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thanks part of walker lane seismic belt |
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97087
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
| 👍thanks Jeff |
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97084
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: what's happening North West of Reno NV
| see map, is it volcanic? |
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