4.7 Quake Rocks Reno As Area's Seismic Activity Continues

[Pale Rider]

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-40_full.html

http://charter.net/news/news_reader.php?storyid=14586891&feedid=14

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2444438451_4f3966867f_o.jpg

[Kathianne]

Seems they are warning:


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080426/D909QLNG0.html


Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue
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Apr 26, 6:18 PM (ET)

By MARTIN GRIFFITH


RENO, Nev. (AP) - Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.

More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.1 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of injuries or widespread major damage.

Seismologists said the recent activity is unusual because the quakes started out small and continue to build in strength. The normal pattern is for a main quake followed by smaller aftershocks.

"A magnitude 6 quake wouldn't be a scientific surprise," John Anderson, director of the seismological lab, said Saturday. "We certainly hope residents are taking the threat seriously after last night."

But Anderson stressed there was no way to predict what would happen, and said the sequence of quakes also could end without a major one.....

[Pale Rider]

I think they'd rather predict a larger quake to come than say the worst is over. But we just got shook by another 3.0 followed by a 2.9. Yeah you can feel them but they're not bad. A 6.0 would be a damn good shaking judging by how hard the 4.7 shook, and I'm sitting right on top of it... just fucking lovely... :terror:

What the hell did I move here for? :laugh:

[manu1959]

I think they'd rather predict a larger quake to come than say the worst is over. But we just got shook by another 3.0 followed by a 2.9. Yeah you can feel them but they're not bad. A 6.0 would be a damn good shaking judging by how hard the 4.7 shook, and I'm sitting right on top of it... just fucking lovely... :terror:

What the hell did I move here for? :laugh:

base ten increase which means a 6 would be ten times crazier than a 4.7.....have fun...

[Pale Rider]

base ten increase which means a 6 would be ten times crazier than a 4.7.....have fun...

Oh I know brother.... I've been feeling this crap for two months now... I just say bring it, get it over with already. I wish whatever it was going to do it would DO it. I'm sick of it.

You KNOW it's coming YOUR WAY don't you?

[manu1959]

Oh I know brother.... I've been feeling this crap for two months now... I just say bring it, get it over with already. I wish whatever it was going to do it would DO it. I'm sick of it.

You KNOW it's coming YOUR WAY don't you?


i have lived through three "big" ones.....all three times in high rise office buildings......you would be amazed how fats you can run down stairs....

anyway if the really big one hits....i will be dead and won't care......

[Pale Rider]

i have lived through three "big" ones.....all three times in high rise office buildings......you would be amazed how fats you can run down stairs....

anyway if the really big one hits....i will be dead and won't care......

Well I certainly don't hope you get harmed in any way pard. People like you are in short quantity in Cal.

They've said that the big hotels in town here were built to "sway," since Reno is sitting on a "slip fault." It's been law to build them that way since 1970, to earth quake standards that is. It's no secret that Nevada is the third most active quake state. Funny though, I've been here going on eight years, and this is the first quakes I've felt.

They're not fun, but I know I don't have to tell you that.

Just look at all the rockin' and rollin' in the past few days. Probably three hundred plus tremors... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-40_full.html

[manu1959]

Well I certainly don't hope you get harmed in any way pard. People like you are in short quantity in Cal.

They've said that the big hotels in town here were built to "sway." It's been law to build them that way since 1970, to earth quake standards that is. It's no secret that Nevada is the third most active quake state. Funny though, I've been here going on eight years, and this is the first quakes I've felt.

They're not fun, but I know I don't have to tell you that.

same to you...but when your time is up....your time is up......having been as high as 21 floors in a 6 .... i can tell ya swaying ain't no fun.....

[Pale Rider]

same to you...but when your time is up....your time is up......having been as high as 21 floors in a 6 .... i can tell ya swaying ain't no fun.....

I'm not going to lie... I'd have been scared fucking shitless.

Have you NEVER contemplated living somewhere else?

[gabosaurus]

Hey Pale, you need to move here to SoCal. We haven't had a quake that big for a while.

[Pale Rider]

Hey Pale, you need to move here to SoCal. We haven't had a quake that big for a while.

And at one point last night, just when it was beginning to look like things may be settling down and there wasn't a tremor all the way from 11:38 PM to 3:16 AM, we just got hit with another 4.0... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-40_full.html

Looks like on the 22nd near Ludlow you guys had a 4.1... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10319993.html