Reno urged to prepare for the worst:
RENO, Nev. (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.
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 5.1 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.
Don’t worry, I’m sure residents can count on the same great FEMA response we saw in New Orleans!
This is poking some long dormant thing in my memory.
Wasn’t there a plan many, many years ago (40?) to detonate nuclear weapons underground to dislodge natural gas reserves?
Or is this just God punishing sinners?