Ground continues to shake near Reno
By Steve Timko, Reno Gazette-Journal
The eight new earthquakes today near the Arrowcreek area southwest of Reno brings the total quakes in that area since Nov. 26 to about 43.
This comes after a pause when there was no quake greater than magnitude 1 between 1:50pm on Tuesday and 4:07am on Thursday.
“It looks like it slowed down a little bit, but it’s difficult to tell within a 24-hour period,” said Tom Rennie, a seismic analyst with the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. “These sequences last for a long time.”
The swarm started Nov. 26 as part of normal movement of the chunks of the earth’s crust — called tectonic plates — that move because of the forces of the earth. This swarm is in the area of the Mount Rose fault but these quakes are not on that fault, the seismic lab said.
