Posted on 04/15/2011 5:33:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday. " It's a little bit concerning in a sense.. The largest earthquakes in these sequences are pretty large in size." Graham Kent is Director of Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada Reno. He says there have been hundreds of earthquakes southwest of Hawthorne over the past few days. The largest-- recorded at a 4.4 in size.
"These are the biggest in a sequence we've seen at least in the last couple of years." Kent says unlike the 2008 quakes in Somersett that damaged so many homes, these earthquakes are fortunately not underneath a community.
Size is not the only reason Kent says they are watching the swarm of quakes closely. The location of these quakes is on top of a fault that has until now remained unknown or has not been active. Kent then made an eerie comparison, "Whats really interesting about most of these earthquakes we've experienced. Short of the Chilean and Japanese; Haiti, Baha, even Christchurch.. Were on unknown faults.
But Kent says just because those devastating quakes happened on un-named faults does not mean that the series of quakes near Hawthorne will lead to a big quake there. Reno, Carson City and the Las Vegas valley all lie on top of fault lines. And right now, there is no way to predict where the next big quake will occur.
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I did notice that looking at the USGS site earlier. It seems these will affect mining in the area more than anything else.
There appears to be a fault line running between Summerlin and North Las Vegas. Those two communities do seem continents apart.
I got it and I LOL’d. I’m sorry you couldn’t hear me.
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Getting near to some volcanic areas around Mono Lake. Could be magma movement.
Very well could be. We had that big 6.3 quake in Chalfant Valley just south of there back in 1986. It was quite a shaker.
Making cracks on an earthquake thread?
Trying to make people shake with laughter?
I tremble at the thought.
These are minor quakes, no larger than 4.3. Hawthorne depot is not in danger, nor is any mining by this swarm.
This site has some good google earth maps with each quake pinpointed. Link is for North America, but the site covers the whole planet.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=usa&lang=eng
It is interactive so you can zoom right in.
Not THAT far from Long Valley Volcanic field either, is it?
How far is this from that region in NEV not that long ago (year or 3?)
where there were quakes on a grid—at most of—at least half of the intersecting points on a grid???
FAIT ZONG QI GUAI—MOST STRANGE.
THX THX . . . interesting.
Nope just off the NW rim of the Long Valley Caldara.
Ahhhh.
Thx.
Where was that area with the quakes on a grid?
Where was that area with the quakes on a grid?
I saw the USGS page documenting that, myself.
They weren’t big quakes but they were definitely on a grid.
you need to be more specific on the swarm you are referring to .
Difficult for me to do . . .
within the last 3 years . . .
Could have been West of Tonapah
or East of Tahoe, Carson City, Reno area
About as much as I can recall.
bump—good disaster map info, interesting site
Thanks.
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