Dave_Osterberg's Blog

I thought that this was an interesting story out of Reno Nevada. A couple of months ago there was a rash of earthquakes in that area. There were close to 200 small earthquakes in just a couple of days. All told there were about 1000 quakes over the past two months.   Most were very light, but they did experience a 4.7 magnitude quake. Then they just stopped. Scientists ahve been baffled as to why so many, and are fearful that a mugh larger quake could be on the way. Well fast forward to June, and the quakes have begun again.  On Sunday 15 quakes struck, and a couple of them were above 3.0.  Some of the larger tremors were strong enough to sway high rises and knock items off of shelves. Again scientists have no idea why these cluster quakes are occuring, but it's not something for which they are letting their guard down.