RENO, Nev. — At 10:33 a.m., the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) recorded another large earthquake near Lahontan Reservoir, this time with a magnitude of 4.8. The quake was located about 13 miles southwest of Fallon, 20 miles north of Yerington at a depth of 4.6 miles. Hundreds of earthquakes have shaken communities in northwestern Nevada since April 13, when a magnitude 5.68 quake struck the same fault line near Lahontan Reservoir. Eighty-three of these have had magnitudes greater than 2.5.
“This earthquake sequence is on a fault we didn’t know about before it started, crossing the Dead Camel Mountains,” Christie Rowe, director of the NSL, said. “We’ve had reports of minor damage in Fallon and at Fort Churchill to some of the historic buildings.”
Nevada has thousands of faults across the state, but only the ones that have broken the surface in recent earthquakes are known to researchers…