Almost two weeks ago, a moderate earthquake centered around Yerington, shook that small town and Reno, which is about 70 miles northwest.
People felt it throughout that region. But aside from its size, earthquakes in Nevada are pretty common — ranking the state fourth in the nation for seismic activity. Thousands of small tremors happen yearly here.
This one, though, might have significantly impacted one of the state’s rarest creatures, the Devils Hole pupfish near Pahrump.
Residents of the Bay Area were under a temporary tsunami warning on Thursday morning, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast. In two minutes, the shock traveled in the earth hundreds of miles to the Nevada border, affecting the endangered Devils Hole pupfish.
Guests: Christie Rowe, professor and director, Nevada Seismological Laboratory; Jeff Goldstein, biologist, National Park Service
