'Gas escape lowers pressure in the magma, causing the surface to subside... But rising gases can become trapped under an impermeable layer of rock, causing the kind of rapid uplift seen at Norris from late 2013 until the [magnitude] 4.9 earthquake in March 2014.'

'It seems likely the quake created microfractures that allowed gases to escape upward again, resulting in subsidence that ended in 2015.

'The third uplift episode from 2016 to 2018 suggests rising gases became trapped again, this time at a slightly shallower depth.'

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)

6. Looks to be very near Carson City. Reno news is reporting it.

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Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:35 PM

Mar 2020

UPDATE: USGS says earthquake near Carson was a 4.5; NV Seismo Lab says aftershocks could come
Sam Gross, Reno Gazette Journal

See: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/03/20/usgs-5-0-magnitude-earthquake-indian-hills-near-carson-city/2890186001/

The United States Geological Survey is reporting a 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Indian Hills, a few miles away from Carson City. So far, nearly 2,200 people have reported feeling the quake

Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, said his team is working to verify the quake and more precisely pinpoint the depth and location. Kent said people in the area need to be prepared for potential aftershocks.

There's also the possibility this could have been a foreshock, he added, but the odds are low. Worldwide, quakes of this magnitude are foreshocks to larger temblors about 5 percent of the time.

Tsunami in Lake Tahoe?...........

FirstLight

(13,364 posts)

10. well it has historically happened...

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:40 PM

Mar 2020

They founf evidence that west shore had something like that maybe 2000 years back? I can't recall...
We had a couple in 92 here, nothing since

rollin74

(1,990 posts)

8. felt it here in Reno

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Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:38 PM

Mar 2020

first quake I've felt around here in a couple years

Glorfindel

(9,733 posts)

11. Revelation 16:18

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Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:41 PM

Mar 2020

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

King James Version

Quiet_Dem_Mom

(599 posts)

13. Holy Crap--yes! (Indian Hills Nv)

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Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:46 PM

Mar 2020

Heard a rumbling the second before the large crack/shaking happened. BIL lives nearby and described it as dropping the house from 5ft height.

We thought it was an explosion somewhere near by at first.

Our dog is still wigged out!

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