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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/26/reno.quake.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's
largest
city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday
after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.
A man cleans up the groceries that toppled from the shelves at a store in
Reno after Friday night's earthquake.
More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city
after a magnitude-4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around
Reno since one measuring 5.2 in 1953, said researchers at the
seismological
laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and
dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of injuries or
widespread major damage.
Seismologists said the recent activity is unusual because the quakes
started
out small and continue to build in strength. The normal pattern is for a
main quake followed by smaller aftershocks.
"A magnitude-6 quake wouldn't be a scientific surprise," John Anderson,
director of the seismological lab, said Saturday. "We certainly hope
residents are taking the threat seriously after last night." Watch
residents clean up earthquake damage »
But Anderson stressed that there was no way to predict what would happen
and
said the sequence of quakes also could end without a major one.
Reno's last major quake measured 6.1 on April 24, 1914, and was felt as
far
away as Berkeley, California, said Craig dePolo, research geologist with
the
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.
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A rockslide triggered by Friday night's quake was blamed in a 125-foot
breach in a wooden flume that carries water to one of two water treatment
plants in Reno, a city of about 210,000.
A backup pump was used to divert water to the plant, and the breach was
not
expected to cause any water shortages, said Aaron Kenneston, Washoe County
emergency management officer.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday night's quake was centered around
Mogul, just west of Reno. The area of upscale homes along the eastern
Sierra
was rattled by more than 100 quakes the day before, the strongest a
magnitude-4.2 that caused high-rise casinos to sway in downtown Reno.
The strongest aftershock measured 3.7 and was recorded after noon
Saturday.
Mike Lentini of Reno said Friday night's quake felt "like a big truck hit
the building" and awakened his family.
"It's the unknown. It's shaking, and when's it going to stop?" he said
Saturday. "And when stuff starts falling off the shelves, it's a whole
other
ballgame."
Jars of mayonnaise and bottles of ketchup and shampoo fell from shelves at
a
Wal-Mart store in northwest Reno. Overhead televisions swayed at a sports
bar in Sparks, 11 miles east, where bartender Shawn Jones said the rumble
was significantly stronger than Thursday's event.
"The bottles were shaking, so I sent everybody outside," he said.
Hundreds of mostly minor quakes have occurred along one or possibly more
faults since the sequence began February 28, said Ken Smith, a
seismologist
at the Reno laboratory. The quakes have occurred along an area about 2
miles
long and a half-mile wide.
"We can't put a number on it, but the probability of a major earthquake
has
increased with this sequence," Smith said Saturday. "People need to
prepare
for ground shaking, because there's no way to say how this will play out."
Among other things, scientists urged residents to stock up on water and
food, to learn how to turn off water and gas, and to strap down
bookshelves,
televisions and computers.
"It's getting a little bit frightening," resident Daryl DiBitonto told the
Reno Gazette-Journal. "I'm very concerned about this increase in not only
activity but also in magnitude."
The quakes around Reno began a week after a magnitude-6 temblor in the
northern Nevada town of Wells, near the Utah border. The February 21 quake
caused an estimated $778,000 in damage to homes, schools and historic
downtown buildings, dePolo said.
Scientists said they're unsure whether the seismic activity at opposite
sides of Nevada is related.
Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the U.S., behind
California and Alaska. The Wells quake was the 15th of at least magnitude
6
in the state's 143-year history.
A magnitude-7.4 quake south of Winnemucca in 1915 is the most powerful in
state history
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