2.2 magnitude earthquake Wednesday in south Carson City
A small earthquake, measuring a magnitude 2.2 happened Wednesday morning in South Carson City, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory.
The shaker happened at around 8:30 a.m., 5.2 miles south, southeast of Carson City. It came in as 2.16 magnitude, which seismologists rounded to 2.2.
A series of micro-quakes, (so small they are not felt) that happened before the 2.2 event and then a couple of smaller ones, a .06 and a 1.1 that proceeded.
Hundreds of aftershocks have been reported since the March 20, 4.5 earthquake that shook the Carson City region, followed later by a 3.2 aftershock. The main earthquake occurred at a depth of five miles beneath the surface of northern Carson Valley, near the southwest flank of Prison Hill.
The magnitude 4.5 earthquake produced moderate shaking near the epicenter in Carson City and Minden. Residents in the surrounding Carson Valley, Reno, Sparks and Tahoe/Truckee regions reported light to weak shaking. Minor damage was reported in south Carson City, and Carson Valley and people as far away as Fallon, Susanville, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno who reported feeling the event via the U.S. Geological Survey “Did You Feel It?” website.