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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nevada Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey, with shaking felt as far west as California.. The quake struck 15 miles north-northeast of ...
Carson City 6.5 M w Suspected uplift at Deadman's Ranch. Homes shifted off their foundations in Genoa. Damage to brick walls and plasters in Reno, Virginia City, and parts of California. [9] February 18, 1914 Reno 6.0 M fa Large cracks to structures in Reno. Some fires broke out. [10] Foreshock of the April earthquake. 1914 Reno earthquakes [11]
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.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 M L and a hypocentral depth of only 2.8 km (1.7 mi). Shaking was felt throughout California and Nevada, with some reports from as far as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. [7] [8] The estimated maximum intensity of shaking was rated as VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
The latest tremor occurred Thursday afternoon and was centered 1.5 miles east of Hayward, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area. The U.S. Geological Survey gave the quake a preliminary rating of ...
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 ...
The Chino Fault and Whittier Fault are the two upper branches of the Elsinore Fault Zone, [2] which is part of the trilateral split of the San Andreas Fault system. The right-lateral strike-slip fault has a slip rate of 1.0 millimeter/year and is capable of producing anywhere from a M w 6.0 to a M w 7.0 earthquake.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los Angeles, but ...