Seems they are warning:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080426/D909QLNG0.html
Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue
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Apr 26, 6:18 PM (ET)
By MARTIN GRIFFITH
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.
More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.1 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of injuries or widespread major damage.
Seismologists said the recent activity is unusual because the quakes started out small and continue to build in strength. The normal pattern is for a main quake followed by smaller aftershocks.
"A magnitude 6 quake wouldn't be a scientific surprise," John Anderson, director of the seismological lab, said Saturday. "We certainly hope residents are taking the threat seriously after last night."
But Anderson stressed there was no way to predict what would happen, and said the sequence of quakes also could end without a major one.....
I think they'd rather predict a larger quake to come than say the worst is over. But we just got shook by another 3.0 followed by a 2.9. Yeah you can feel them but they're not bad. A 6.0 would be a damn good shaking judging by how hard the 4.7 shook, and I'm sitting right on top of it... just fucking lovely...
What the hell did I move here for?
Last edited by Pale Rider; 04-27-2008 at 02:39 PM.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Well I certainly don't hope you get harmed in any way pard. People like you are in short quantity in Cal.
They've said that the big hotels in town here were built to "sway," since Reno is sitting on a "slip fault." It's been law to build them that way since 1970, to earth quake standards that is. It's no secret that Nevada is the third most active quake state. Funny though, I've been here going on eight years, and this is the first quakes I've felt.
They're not fun, but I know I don't have to tell you that.
Just look at all the rockin' and rollin' in the past few days. Probably three hundred plus tremors... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/M...0-40_full.html
Last edited by Pale Rider; 04-27-2008 at 04:00 PM.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Hey Pale, you need to move here to SoCal. We haven't had a quake that big for a while.
And at one point last night, just when it was beginning to look like things may be settling down and there wasn't a tremor all the way from 11:38 PM to 3:16 AM, we just got hit with another 4.0... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/M...0-40_full.html
Looks like on the 22nd near Ludlow you guys had a 4.1... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Q...i10319993.html
Last edited by Pale Rider; 04-28-2008 at 07:03 AM.