Nevada earthquakes

  • Nevada quakes continue. Are they foreshocks rather than aftershocks?

    Ralph Maughan

    On Feb. 21, 2008 there was a moderately powerful earthquake of 6.3 near Wells, Nevada. Naturally that was followed by many aftershocks. But now geologists are wondering if something unusual may be underway, especially as the quakes seem to have migrated toward populous Reno, Nevada. Sometimes moderately large quakes are foreshocks of a really big…

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