Looks like the USGS upgraded that quake last night near Silver Springs. At first it was coming in at 4.7. It rattled things pretty good where I was in Reno. The moment tensor fault plane solution from last night shows the same profile as the Alamo quake, a strike-slip fault plane, and typical for the seismicity of the Basin and Range area.
It was clear by the moment tensor solution that the Alamo quake was a strike slip fault and not an explosion which would show up as isotropic due to an explosion's compression and tensile forces. The seismic record also doesn't indicate anything suspicious. Anything happening near Area 51 always gets people's imaginations going. None of the data I looked at indicates anything but a normal quake profile.
No spoilers! AJ and Hecklefish don’t reveal the ghost story is a hoax until the episode is almost over. Relocate your sensible comment to the end of the thread please…,
Looks like the USGS upgraded that quake last night near Silver Springs. At first it was coming in at 4.7. It rattled things pretty good where I was in Reno. The moment tensor fault plane solution from last night shows the same profile as the Alamo quake, a strike-slip fault plane, and typical for the seismicity of the Basin and Range area.
It was clear by the moment tensor solution that the Alamo quake was a strike slip fault and not an explosion which would show up as isotropic due to an explosion's compression and tensile forces. The seismic record also doesn't indicate anything suspicious. Anything happening near Area 51 always gets people's imaginations going. None of the data I looked at indicates anything but a normal quake profile.
No spoilers! AJ and Hecklefish don’t reveal the ghost story is a hoax until the episode is almost over. Relocate your sensible comment to the end of the thread please…,