Winter, spring, summer, fall, it doesn’t matter; an earthquake can hit the Silver State any time of the year.
“Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the nation, but a lot of times they’re more rural, so we don’t necessarily feel them here or we don’t have impacts here… It’s always there, just right under the surface,” said Kelly Echeverria, Washoe County Emergency Manager.
That’s why Washoe County Emergency Management and Northern Nevada Public Health co-hosted a training session on Wednesday at the county’s Emergency Management Center in north Reno, covering what to do if a large-scale earthquake rocks northern Nevada…