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Quakes felt across northern Nevada and in California (5.5, 5.7, 5.7 & more)
KOLO ^ | December 28 | Audrey Owsley

Posted on 12/28/2016 2:30:07 AM PST by PghBaldy

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada is reporting a series of earthquakes felt throughout northern Nevada and in California.

The first, a magnitude 5.8, hit at 12:18 a.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2016. It hit 18 miles southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada.


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KEYWORDS: earthquake; hawthorne; quake
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three 5.0+’s

two more above 4.0

11 more above 3.0

91 total the past six hours


21 posted on 12/28/2016 6:15:41 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: boknows; Jim Robinson

Goodbye FR?

Jim’s in Fresno.


22 posted on 12/28/2016 6:21:35 AM PST by onedoug
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To: PghBaldy

I hope Jim and family moves from California soon...as I see it, not to far in the future California will be floating off in the Pacific Ocean, they will have to make their own power grid, sewer systems, grow their own food, drill their own oil and build refineries for gasoline...

Then again, California could become like the ‘City of Atlantis’ and never been seen again...

We will never know will we?


23 posted on 12/28/2016 6:34:25 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Nice, Calexit. +1


24 posted on 12/28/2016 6:41:08 AM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President-Elect Trump)
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To: PghBaldy

Very unusual but there has been unusual Sierra Nevada activity in the last 3 months.
There was also a great deal of activity a couple years ago near the NV/ID/OR border.

Too deep to be a building volcano (unlike NV/ID/OR activity)
Very strange.


25 posted on 12/28/2016 6:49:27 AM PST by Zathras
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To: janetjanet998

The drywall around pretty much all my windows have fresh cracks.


26 posted on 12/28/2016 7:29:01 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: who knows what evil?

“Where can you go,
When there’s no San Francisco!
Better get ready,
To tie up the boat,
in Idaho!”


27 posted on 12/28/2016 7:41:58 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Within the past 5 days there were 3 7.6+ earthquakes in Chile. It’s been working it’s way north with a bunch of 5.5s. And you’re right about Cascadia in WA and OR. No activity at all.


28 posted on 12/28/2016 8:01:38 AM PST by RideForever
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To: HarleyLady27; All

The only “catastrophic” seismic event that could conceivably happen to California (besides run of the mill things breaking) would be the uplift or pinching shut of the golden gate and subsequent damming of the Sacramento/San Joaquin river complexes resulting in the flooding of the delta and valley. I would hope that the people running the show here would breach that well before it became a problem.

It’s not going to sink, or break off and float away...


29 posted on 12/28/2016 8:05:43 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Zathras

To deep? They’re all in the 5-15km range aren’t they?


30 posted on 12/28/2016 8:06:58 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

We can all dream...


31 posted on 12/28/2016 8:08:04 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: boknows

An 11.6 in California would topple buildings in Boston.


32 posted on 12/28/2016 9:59:58 AM PST by MeganC (Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
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To: Read Write Repeat
Would you care to comment on this [solar] theory?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLUgEXI9RYI

33 posted on 12/28/2016 10:18:11 AM PST by Does so ("The Business of America is Business"--President Calvin Coolidge...)
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To: Axenolith

In a geologically mature area like the Sierras or even Yellowstone, I would expect to see quakes less than 5 miles deep.
It sure is possible which is why this is so strange looking.


34 posted on 12/28/2016 9:38:55 PM PST by Zathras
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To: PghBaldy
The 3 seismic events have a suspicious vertical spike leading edge (potentially atomic blasts??)


35 posted on 12/29/2016 12:01:32 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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