1 posted on
04/15/2011 5:33:36 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
2 posted on
04/15/2011 5:34:30 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: BenLurkin
Las Vegas lies on a fault line?
I thought Las Vegas was a no fault zone.
3 posted on
04/15/2011 5:36:56 PM PDT by
CharacterCounts
(November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
To: BenLurkin
I have felt a couple of these larger quakes centered near the ghost town of Aurora on the Nevada/California border.
4 posted on
04/15/2011 5:43:11 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: BenLurkin
Magma could be pushing up from deep below.
6 posted on
04/15/2011 5:45:51 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Basin and range territory. Its not far from the Aurora Crater. There are several known faults nearby (including the rattlesnake flats fault) but these are not located directly on any known fault. There is a basin area to the north. If you look at it on google there are some open pit mines in the area. (Borax? rare earths? sand and gravel?)
Look forward to the explanation. Does this have something to do with the mining? Beginnings of a magma intrusion and new volcano? Something more Sci Fi....perhaps worms seeking spice in the basin, or the mining has disturbed the old ones who are arising from their long slumber....
To: BenLurkin
Normally I pipe in on these with the nothing to see here.
This time around there is an unusual component to this in that the line of apparent aftershocks is trending NE-SW which is 90 degrees to the regional trend of NNW-SSE. I initially though this could represent the development of a strike-slip system, however, all the moment tensors indicate normal faulting.
This will keep the seismologists at the UNR and USGS scratching their heads for a while.
15 posted on
04/15/2011 6:12:42 PM PDT by
Godzilla
(3-7-77)
To: BenLurkin
It’s just Harry’s friends coming to visit from hell.
18 posted on
04/15/2011 6:16:54 PM PDT by
Soothesayer
(smallpox is not a person)
To: BenLurkin
Is this anywhere near Perfection, Nevada?
19 posted on
04/15/2011 6:21:31 PM PDT by
Grut
To: BenLurkin
Hawthorne has a VERY large weapons depot.
To: BenLurkin
25 posted on
04/15/2011 7:24:01 PM PDT by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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