SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There has been a series of earthquakes near Truckee and Donner Lake tonight, with the biggest, so far, measured at 4.87 magnitude.
The University of Nevada Reno Seismological Lab is reporting the 9:35 p.m. earthquake at 5.35 m, but the US Geological Survey (USGS) has it measured at 4.87 m, occurring eight miles north of Donner Lake.
It was followed by a 2.98 m 10.5 miles NNW of Donner Lake at 9:37 p.m. and a 1.4 m at 9:52 p.m.
Before those, an earthquake measuring 1.55 m at 4:03 p.m., a 3.14 m quake 9.9 miles NNW of Donner Lake at 9:26 p.m., and a 1.72 m at 9:29 p.m.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There has been a series of earthquakes near Truckee and Donner Lake tonight, with the biggest, so far, measured at 4.87 magnitude.
The University of Nevada Reno Seismological Lab is reporting the 9:35 p.m. earthquake at 5.35 m, but the US Geological Survey (USGS) has it measured at 4.87 m, occurring eight miles north of Donner Lake.
It was followed by a 2.98 m 10.5 miles NNW of Donner Lake at 9:37 p.m. and a 1.4 m at 9:52 p.m.
Before those, an earthquake measuring 1.55 m at 4:03 p.m., a 3.14 m quake 9.9 miles NNW of Donner Lake at 9:26 p.m., and a 1.72 m at 9:29 p.m.
Siskiyou Daily News
Since mid-April, a series of small earthquakes jiggled in a jagged area from Tennant in Siskiyou County down to Truckee in Nevada County, passing through Shasta County north of Shasta Lake and near Burney.
Most of the more than 100 earthquakes that hit the North State over the past 30 days were a magnitude of 2.0 or less on the Richter Scale meaning they are too small to be felt, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
But one of the latest quakes, 4.7 in magnitude, hit the Truckee area on Thursday night, the USGS reported. At that magnitude, it could be felt by a lot people in the area and miles away.
May 6, 2021
A small herd of wildebeest walk across the Masai Mara Plains in Kenya at sunset. Matthew Kauffman, who directs the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at UW, is the lead author of a paper, titled “Mapping Out a Future for Ungulate Migrations,” that will appear in the May 7 issue of Science. An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, a U.N. treaty. (Munir Virani Photo)
An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists, including a few from the University of Wyoming, has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a United Nations treaty.