Posted on 04/29/2008 5:49:43 PM PDT by Aristotelian
RENO, Nev. - Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes.
What they can't say is whether the hundreds of temblors that have rattled the area for two months — the largest a magnitude 4.7 Friday night — are subsiding or a prelude to bigger things to come.
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Scientists are calling the swarm of temblors that began Feb. 28 the "Mogul earthquake sequence", in reference to the neighborhood where hundreds of mostly minor earthquakes have occurred.
But the shaking is unusual, seismologists say, because the intensity of the quakes has increased over the past few weeks. Generally, earthquakes tend to occur and are followed by smaller aftershocks.
In this case, the earth's rumblings have continued unabated, with barely negligible bumps occurring often minutes apart, followed by occasional larger shakers.
It's impossible to know if the temblors are foreshocks of a bigger quake to come, or aftershocks of what has been, experts said.
Up until April 15, sizable quakes that could be felt were occurring about once every third day.
Then, the rate increased, with about three, 2.0 or larger incidents occurring daily.
On April 24, when the first 4.2 quake was registered, "all of a sudden we were seeing 20 (of the magnitude) 2s and larger per day," said state geologist Jon Price.
"This is an exceptionally vigorous sequence of earthquakes," Price said.
During the past week alone, more than 500 occurrences have been recorded.
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The plates continue to move.
Not to worry, it is just a digging machine under a casino.
I thought that an increase in the strength of earthquakes like that means they are fore shocks. Aftershocks get smaller. At least that is what I remember from my experience of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake. It helped to go through those aftershocks and noticing their decrease in strength. While holding your breath wondering if it would get stronger as it went on, and when was it going to stop.
And these are prolly the same ‘scientists’ that are part of the GW “CONSENSUS”!
God’s revenge for the evil of Harry Reid.....
Somehow, this is Bush’s fault.
Magma moving.
New volcano being created.
Radio back to Mexico and tell them they can dig up now, they’ve made it.
I’m thinking it is NOT the alignment of the sun,moon and planets.
Looks to me like they’re decreasing in intensity, which I think is good.
The AP’s a little slow on this story I think.
We don’t know how, but we are sure it is caused by Global Warming.....
Ping
Is there a way to measure a temperature change?
That will be a relief to all the wetbacks.
You could be correct. Who knows?
In California, on particularly hot days, some people start talking about "earthquake weather".
Global warming means more earthquakes. It's a given!
Harry Reid’s chickens come home to roost??? How far from the epicenter is Searchlight? hehehehehehheheheh
It’s a giant mutant monster spawned from nuclear radiation from all those years of testing.
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