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Things have been very busy at the lab this week between earthquakes and fires. Tuesday evening we quickly deployed our new Communications On Wheels (COW), a mobile camera unit to get another view angle on the #DavisFiretinyurl.com/2p9dcjvf
There was a magnitude 4.39 earthquake at 8:06pm PDT on August 13th. The epicenter was just off Hwy 95 about half way between Las Vegas and Beatty. A mag 3.1 EQ followed ~6 minutes later, ~3 km / ~1.5 miles south of the M4.39 earthquake. Light shaking in Pahrump and Las Vegas.
We have been so excited to have our new director, Christie Rowe, at the NSL! We were able to welcome her at our NSL 50th anniversary party last week.
Each earthquake serves to widen the Basin and Range a small amount, moving Reno farther away from Salt Lake City. This small earthquake did the same in a very small manner. www.seismo.unr.edu/Events/main....
On Saturday afternoon there was a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on a normal fault that runs along the east flank of the Toiyabe Range near Austin Nevada. This fault has been the source of multiple large surface rupture events in the last 10’s of thousands of years.
Happy #FieldWorkFriday! This week, our crew installed a new fire camera at Summit Lake. This power system and telemetry equipment will also be able to support environmental sensors that will be installed in the future.
Locating earthquakes is a fundamental task in seismology with many important applications, but is not always as easy as it looks. Here we @nvseismolab.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1785/0220...