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2020 Monte Cristo Range earthquake. / 38.169; -117.850. On May 15, 2020 at 4:03:27 local time, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck ~35 miles (56 km) west of Tonopah, Nevada in the Monte Cristo Range near the California -Nevada border. [3] It was Nevada's largest earthquake in 66 years.
ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning system (EEW) in the United States, developed and operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners. [1] As of 2021, the system issues alerts for the country's West Coast (specifically the states of California, Oregon and Washington ). It is expected that the system will be expanded ...
Retrieved 24 Jan 2021. ^ a b Craig M. dePolo and Terri M. Garside (2006). The November 21, 1910 Tonopah Junction Earthquake, and the February 18, 1914 and April 24, 1914 Reno Earthquakes in Nevada (PDF). ^ "M 6.0 - Nevada". USGS-ANSS. Retrieved 24 Jan 2021.
A middle-of-the-night 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the Reno area in Nevada, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 4-mile deep quake hit 4 miles from Spanish Springs, northeast of Reno, at 1 ...
Walker Lane. The Walker Lane includes Death Valley, the Owens Valley, Pyramid Lake, & Walker Lake. The Walker Lane is a geologic trough roughly aligned with the California / Nevada border southward to where Death Valley intersects the Garlock Fault, a major left lateral, or sinistral, strike-slip fault. The north-northwest end of the Walker ...
An average of 25 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 5.0 occur each year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.9 ...
The most recent notable event in the Garlock Fault Zone was a magnitude 5.7 near the town of Mojave on July 11, 1992. [5] It is thought to have been triggered by the Landers earthquake, just two weeks earlier. [5] However, no surface slippage of the fault itself had been recorded in modern times until 2019.
An earthquake that shook Temecula, Calif., on Friday evening was felt widely across San Diego. The magnitude-4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. about 11 miles from Temecula at a depth of 9 miles ...