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Magnitude 4.8 aftershock strikes near Lahontan Reservoir
SOURCE: University of Nevada, Reno At 10:33 a.m., April 22, the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) recorded another large earthquake near Lahontan Reservoir, this time with a magnitude of 4.8. The quake was located about 13 miles southwest of Fallon, 20 miles north of Yerington at a depth of 4.6 miles. Hundreds of earthquakes have shaken communities in northwestern Nevada since April 13, when a magnitude 5.68 quake struck the same fault line near Lahontan Reservoir. Eighty-three of these have had magnitudes greater than 2.5. “This earthquake sequence is on a fault we didn’t know about before it started, crossing the Dead Camel...
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