Not enough to knock things down but I felt the building shake!
Edit: 5.5 about 50 miles from here. Nothing major. But enough to get just a wee bit scared, if only for a few moments.
New Jersey had one about six months ago that registered 4.8.
We felt it in The Bronx!
It’s definitely an alarming experience.
Glad you're OK!!
shareIt wasn't big enough to be dangerous. But those first few moments you don't know that.
shareHow frequent are earthquakes in Reno?
shareNot rare, we are around 200 miles NE of San Francisco, famous for being vulnerable to earthquakes. In 11 years I have experienced three (including this one), all pretty similar. I should amend what I wrote above, in that 5.5 certainly has the potential to be dangerous, it is a matter of where the epicenter is and what is located there.
shareEarthquakes are rare where I live, but I did feel a small one once. Big enough that I felt it and said to myself "Is that... No... Maybe?" And it was!
4 years ago we had a 5.1 earthquake about an hour from here. Oddly I did not even feel that one.
‘I’ll see you in hell before I see you in Reno’
shareWOW...GLAD YOU'RE ALRIGHT....AS A CALIFORNIAN....I KNOW THOSE SHAKY FUCKERS ARE FREAKY.
shareI didn't know they got earthquakes in Nevada. I know it's right next door to CA, but the nearest faultline is over on the coast. What gives?
share“Earthquakes are an everyday thing in Nevada,” said William Savran, network manager for the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, based at the University of Nevada, Reno, in an October interview. Nevada’s history is full of temblors, from the biggest one in the state’s recorded history in 1915, which was a magnitude 7.3 that struck about 50 miles south of Winnemucca, to the magnitude 6.5 Monte Cristo earthquake that struck near Tonopah in May 2020. Since 1915 eight of Nevada’s largest earthquakes have all registered magnitude 6 or over. And according to a report titled “Nevada’s Earthquake History” on shakeout.org, a website managed by the Southern California Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California, tens of thousands of microearthquakes happen every year in Nevada. On average, Savran said, about 10 earthquakes a day occur in Nevada, typically small ones.
But why is Nevada so prone to earthquakes?
“Pretty much any mountain range that you see in Nevada has some faulting associated with it,” Savran said. “So there’s a pretty large potential for earthquakes here.” The Silver State also has “dozens of active faults,” an article about Nevada’s earthquake risks on UNLV’s website says. “Few in the Las Vegas Valley realize that Nevada is the nation’s third-most seismically active state — behind California and Alaska — with active faults statewide capable of ‘the big one,’” the article says. Nevada also shares with California the Walker Lane, an “approximately 1000-kilometer-long (625 miles) corridor riddled with hundreds of earthquake faults,” according to an article on UNR’s website. As such, earthquake experts urge Nevadans to always be prepared for an earthquake. Information on earthquake preparedness can be found on the Nevada Division of Emergency Management’s website. “We definitely have the potential for large earthquakes here,” Savran said.
---reviewjournal.com
Nevada is a more mountainous region that most people realize.
shareGood God! No wonder you guys have issues with earthquakes! Look at this!
https://nbmg.unr.edu/_images/Geohazards/Qfaults.JPG
SOS
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Fascinating stuff. So apparently all those mountains have faults underneath them. That makes sense. I keep forgetting the San Andreas isn't the only fault on the western side of the US. It's just the biggest and most studied.
I'll have to go see what Nevada has to show with a geological fault map. Thanks for the info :)
5.5 sounds pretty serious, glad you were pretty far from the epicenter.
That earthquake in Jersey had to send shockwaves deep underground and across the Hudson River to be felt here in New York.
Wild nature sure can keep a person on their toes!