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Umpteenth minor earthquake right at Reno’s doorsteps

Snapshot I grabbed from the (live) Nevada Seismological Lab’s helicorder webcam showing the earlier (approx) Mag 4 shaker that jolted me upright - click for the large version:

Details of this one can be found here. The listing of recent earthquake activity in Nevada can be found here. And, just because precautions can’t hurt (there’s an increased risk now of a ‘Big One’ coming down the pike, perhaps even as far up as a mag 7 quake which, if the epicenter of that one remains at/near Mogul, close to the Peavine Peak like all the previous ones we’ve had over this past week, would wreak serious havoc here in Reno) there’s valuable earthquake preparedness info right here.

For the incurably curious, a map to the epicenter (which is the point at ground level right above the hypocenter - which is the “real” originating center of a quake’s release of energy) of this one is below:

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Now let’s keep our fingers crossed that this series dies off quickly; as remote as the possibility of a Big One in this neck of the woods is, we’re still in the middle of Earthquake Country. And of course, neighboring California can well do without the unsolicited shake, rattle and roll as well.

Added: the local Reno Gazette-Journal or RGJ has a section with news articles on the series here. And this most recent tremble has its story up now, too right here. After the mag 6 quake hit Wells, late last February, the ground hasn’t stopped shaking… It seems to have been traveling to the West, somewhat.

Added later: I found an AP news item about the Friday night special we had here, two nights ago:

Felices fiestas

Al margen de todo, espero que estas próximas fiestas de Navidad y de Año Nuevo deparen paz, buena salud, sosiego, y felicidad. ¡Felices fiestas!

Es un clásico navideño aquí en EE.UU. titulado “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”, o sea: castañas tostadas en una hoguera - una imagen tradicional y reconocible en todas partes. Para los curiosos: me encontré hace mucho tiempo una versión MIDI de esta canción; simplemente lo convertí a un archivo de audio, asignando instrumentos virtuales en un sintetizador por software.

Parece que estamos en otoño…

No se porqué me desperté, pero ya decía yo que está haciendo fresquito:

Jo, a menos siete grados y eso que ni estamos en diciembre… En fin: ¡viva la calefacción!

(Agregado más tarde: eso de arriba es sólo un segmento de pantallazo, no la condición meteorológica actual.)