Great
Earthquakes In Diverse Places
Series of 4 earthquakes hit Nevada
The Associated Press
Posted: 01/22/2011 11:17:54 AM PST
Updated: 01/22/2011 12:44:00 PM PST
HAWTHORNE, Nev.—Four earthquakes have struck in about two hours
time in a remote area of western Nevada.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.8-magnitude temblor struck
around 9:26 a.m. Saturday about 14 miles east of the Mineral
County city of Hawthorne and 167 miles east of Sacramento, Calif.
It was followed three minutes later by a 4.3-magnitude quake about
eight miles southeast of Hawthorne.
Then a 3.9 quake hit in roughly the same area at 11:21 a.m. A
fourth earthquake, this one with a magnitude 3.2, was recorded at
11:27.
USGS seismologist Paul Caruso could not say why the quakes hit the
same area in a short period of time, but said the area was
commonly rattled by relatively minor earthquakes.
A dispatcher with the Mineral County Sheriff's Department in
Hawthorne says she felt shaking from three of the four quakes, but
there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.