OK - my hubby is a native Los Angelan. Was born & lived all of his life until he left for college there. We go back & visit quite a bit as the rest of his family still resides there. As I understand it, it's not the little ones you have to worry about. The little ones actually relieve the pressure. It's when you don't have one for a while that you have to worry. Anyway, they're a family of know it alls, so I could be wrong -- but that's what I was told. ;)

this one was 3.6
 

Hey! Just had another one there!

Here a Mexico City native... you are right!! it is actually kind of good to have the little ones... trouble when it has been long without any!

Please be calm and safe!!!

5.0 that will wake you up!
 

we just had another one tonight a 5.0 definitely felt this one!

ok they say that it was a 4.9 very short time later we have had 10 aftershocks. Shook my bird a bit but all is well here for now....

Yep. My report said it was 4.9....that would surely shake me up!!

Hi. You can go to google and type usgs (united states geological services) and keep up with info there. We are near Evansville Indiana and have had something similiar since last Thursday. We had a 5.2 quake on that day and a 4.0, 4.6 ,4.5,3.7 yesterday and approx and 26 other smaller quakes since then too. Yes that 5.2 woke us up big time at 4:30 in the am! You have been shaking a lot too!!!!

I was about ready to post the same thing. The 5.2 one woke me up then we felt the first aftershock. It was such an odd thing to feel.

Just saw this and thought of you guys....

Reno shaking: AP article


By SANDRA CHEREB, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 29, 8:26 PM ET

RENO, Nev. - Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes.
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What they can't say is whether the hundreds of temblors that have rattled the area for two months — the largest a magnitude 4.7 Friday night — are subsiding or a prelude to bigger things to come.

"You're not going to get an earthquake prediction today," John Anderson, director of Seismology Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, said Tuesday during a briefing with Gov. Jim Gibbons and emergency managers on the seismic activity.

Scientists are calling the swarm of temblors that began Feb. 28 the "Mogul earthquake sequence", in reference to the neighborhood where hundreds of mostly minor earthquakes have occurred.

But the shaking is unusual, seismologists say, because the intensity of the quakes has increased over the past few weeks. Generally, earthquakes tend to occur and are followed by smaller aftershocks.

In this case, the earth's rumblings have continued unabated, with barely negligible bumps occurring often minutes apart, followed by occasional larger shakers.

It's impossible to know if the temblors are foreshocks of a bigger quake to come, or aftershocks of what has been, experts said.

Up until April 15, sizable quakes that could be felt were occurring about once every third day.

Then, the rate increased, with about three, 2.0 or larger incidents occurring daily.

On April 24, when the first 4.2 quake was registered, "all of a sudden we were seeing 20 (of the magnitude) 2s and larger per day," said state geologist Jon Price.

"This is an exceptionally vigorous sequence of earthquakes," Price said.

During the past week alone, more than 500 occurrences have been recorded.

Most recently, two measuring 3.1 and 3.2 in magnitude occurred around 11 p.m. Monday. Another 3.1 was recorded at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.

The largest so far was a 4.7 quake that was registered at 11:40 p.m. Friday. It was preceded 11 seconds earlier by a 3.3 quake, and followed 3 minutes later by one registering 3.4.

The temblors sent goods flying off shelves, cracked walls, broke glass and collapsed part of a water flume west of Reno. There were no injuries.

They are mostly shallow, occurring just beneath the surface to within a mile or two.

"Shallow makes us believe this is absolutely not volcanic," Price said.

Mapping of the quakes shows they are clustered around the Mogul and Somersett neighborhoods in northwest Reno, in an area about 2.5 miles long and 1/3 of a mile wide.

Craig dePolo with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, said he understands the anxiety of residents who have lived with the persistent shaking.

"What's going on is extraordinary," he agreed. "People are being needled by little earthquakes ... for months."

"And the best we can say is we don't know what going to happen."

DePolo, who said he's been through many earthquakes, acknowledged that he, too, is "a little nervous."

The governor and emergency managers urged residents to be prepared by strapping down water heaters or any heavy items that could fall and injure people and to have first aid and food provisions on hand.

Frank Siracusa, head of the Nevada Division of Emergency Management, said state, regional and local agencies train constantly for disasters and have been in daily contact.

"I'd like to say we're prepared, but we can never be too prepared," he said.

The governor said he's "very concerned about the safety of the public," and stressed that residents need to be prepared to minimize risk in the event of a disaster.

Gibbons, himself a geologist, said the earth's movement is what makes the mountains and Nevada landscape so special.

"I find it fascinating about our earth and how it continually evolves over time," he said.

But with Nevada being the second most seismically active state in the continental U.S., he echoed the advice of experts who said large earthquakes are inevitable.

"At some point ... we are going to have a magnitude 6 or 7," Gibbons said.

Earthquake magnitudes are calculated according to ground motion recorded on seismographs. An increase in one full number — from 5.5 to 6.5, for example — means the quake's magnitude is 10 times as great.

A quake with a magnitude of 6 can cause severe damage, while one with a magnitude of 7 can cause widespread, heavy damage.

Thank you for sharing that info, I have been so busy that I haven't watched the news since friday. I did feel one of them that we had at 4:30 in the am. It woke up one of my yorkies and had to let her out. Bed shook a bit and I wasn't sure if it was another one, turns out it was.