I felt that one!
 

Nice little earthquake just now at 8:00am...

Goes nicely with the snow.

...which goes nicely with the email I got containing pictures of a mule killing a mountain lion.

Mother Earth got the shivers...
At least it was only in the 3.x magnitude, with a couple of other smaller ones since. I don't really want to be here if there's a bigger one though.

There have been a string of small earthquakes around Mogul over the last few months. I bet this one was another of those.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/17415354.html

You are in a slab house, try it in a taller one with minimal 1st floor cross support.

And it was still nothing compared to what I grew up with in CA.

HmmmOh noes... It must be the Mole people!!!

No it's the Crab People.

This is simply a teaser to the cloverfield II movie.

Nah... They are the ones cutting off perfect rectangular portions of the antarctic ice shelf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzJ2mqVdThU

If you want to see what's going on with the earthquakes, check this link to the USGS...
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

There are about 40-50 fault lines (or more) under Reno, and Verdi/Mogul area has been hit with 6.0+ quakes in 1914 and 1948.

Just a reminder, lots of small quakes are good! They prevent the one big snap that levels the city. I remember getting "earthquake swarms" on the Hayward fault back in San Ramon in the early '90s. At the time the Hayward fault was way over-due for a 7.0+ quake, but I think all the little 3.0-5.0 quakes (there were like 20 in a week or something crazy... it seems like one every 2 to 4 hours) must have released the tension, 'cause the big one never came.

'Course, these could just be pre-shocks. And the Hayward fault might still generate an 8.0 tomorrow. Earthquakes are unpredictable like that.

What are these "earthquakes" you people speak of?

They are just like tornadoes except the house only moves due to the ground shaking, it doesn't get picked up off it's cinder blocks and tossed into the next county. :P

'Cause North Carolina is known for tornadoes.

Tornadoes, floods, poor dental health, bad diction, big bugs, inbreeding, whatever...

You forgot "Yard Cars"

You ain't from around here, are ya', city boy?

http://home.eol.ca/~dord/deliverance05.jpg

Take away tornadoes and it almost sounds like Reno. :lol:

How ' bout hurricanes, kudzu, and Nascar?

OK, I'm good with that.

:lol:

Just felt another one...

... and there was no banjo playing in the distance.

...and another...

That one felt bigger. (That's what she said.... )

And another...

Maybe California is going to fall into the ocean... Or Yosemite going to erupt.:eek: :eek:

Another.

This is getting bothersome.

As Scott said, I'd much rather have a bunch of 2s & 3s than a single 5 or 6+

Oceanfront property FTW!

First off, I can't believe it took that long to get a TWSS joke in a thread titled like this one.

Second, "Yosemite" isn't even a mountain, let alone a volcano Dean. :lol:

I think he's thinking of the caldera around Mammoth Lakes.

That's *not* what she said.

Wrong major national park starting with Y... Yellowstone is the huge caldera that if it really erupts will probably be as cataclysmic as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Thus the :eek:s

And now I just feel like the house is just resonating every time I move my head. (TWSS)

Nah, it's a caldera. Lava could flow out of it but it won't asplode. It's the wrong type of volcano.

I haven't felt squat.

(TWSS)

Wrong.... Watch more Discovery Channel. It can, it has, but it probably won't or so we hope. But just to make you a little scared, there is a blob of magma the size of Los Angeles 6 miles beneath it that has been causing the caldera to rise 3 inches a year since 2004... :P

I guess the likes of Scott and I and anyone else in Southernish Reno are too far away.

Sweet, we're southernishners. Where's my rebel flag!?

I'm not quite as south as you are is why I said that. I work by the convention center, so thats like middle Reno or something. That's an a-firm on your southern status.

Although I do keep feeling my seat rumble from underneath me, its not from earthquakes.

Yes, calderas can very easily have explosive eruptions, and Yellowstone has the type of magma that can do it (high gas content). The caldera down to our south (Mammoth Mountain - Long Valley Caldera), is more likely to make lava flows but can still erupt violently (like it did the last time it went off). We have also found out that little quakes do not necessarily release stress on fault lines, but sometimes actually builds stress on the faults next to them. Activity on one fault can also trigger another fault to pop (saw that one happen at Yucca Mountain a few years ago).

So you're saying I need Volcano insurance on my new house?

It's possible, wouldn't be a bad idea (if the insurance companies even had that as an option)...were you here for the earthquake swarms under Kings Beach up at the lake a few summers ago? The guys in the seismology department at UNR figured out that it was magma moving under North Lake Tahoe at about 15 miles depth. It even made the Slide Mountain GPS station move about 11mm.

There were a couple of nice ones today, a 3.4 at 8:00am this morning, and three this afternoon at 2:26pm (A 3.1), 2:32pm (A 3.1), 2:33pm (A 3.0), and finished up at 5:53pm (A 2.4) that I felt today! I live in the NW right by the Home depot on Summit Ridge on the second floor and we really feel em'

Where have I been when this has been happening?

I havn't felt a thing. :huh:

It is out north not down south thats why we havent felt it.

Good thing I'm in SF today and tomorrow. :eek:

Actually they're not uncommon when the big thunderstorms roll through. Fortunately tornadoes are strongly attracted to trailer parks, and there are no trailer parks near our neighborhood. :cool:

If you are not in the Northwest of Reno, more than likely these "microquakes" probably won't be felt. Although a 3.0+ is considered a "minor" earthquake (The ones we had yesterday), if you live in Sparks or South Reno, more than likely you won't feel much if anything. They are coming from somewhere close to the Verdi-Mogul Area which is only a few miles from where I live, and being on the second story of any home or apartment building like myself will intensify the quake and freak your cats out :lol: . Seeing them freak out on those was almost as funny as when we made one of them crash into a glass tv stand door chasing a laser pointer. I know that's messed up but it was funny at the time.

I'm next to the northgate golf course, probably within a couple of miles of the coordinates where these quakes are measured (Somersett Country Club area). I've been feeling the 1.9's and up, and yesterday was a busy day!

I've been wondering what animals do -- I've seen/heard the birds outside go silent a moment before, but was wondering what cats/dogs are doing ... ?

If tornadoes are attracted to trailer parks, Reno is a dangerous place to live since its so close to Sun Valley.

So you feel just about every one of them like me! About the cats, one of my cats every time the quake hits, she stops right where she is at the time, she arches her back, and the hair on her stands so straight that it looks like your hair when you rub a balloon on it. Afterwards, she waits a second or so, takes off, and does hot laps around the house. When the 3.0+ ones hit it was worse though! She was making weird noises I have never heard out of her before on top of the arching her back and everything she did on the little ones. My other cat is a male that is 16+ pounds who sleeps a lot and doesn't seem to mind it much. He just perks his ears up and lifts his head until it's done, and goes back to sleep.

That would be funny to see! I wonder if this kind of behavior adds weight to the theory that cats may have another sense, one which is tuned in to the earth's magnetic force. (One explanation of how they sometimes travel long distances to find their way home, or to get back to a former home.)

Still having quakes up here yesterday, last night, this morning.

Cats have a very keen sense of hearing and balance, and their bare feet are on the ground, so they hear/feel it long before us lowly relatively deaf, tall, and shoe wearing humans.