And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Jan-26-Tue-1999/news/10483106.html ">http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Jan-26-Tue-1999/news/10483106.html ======================================================== January 26, 1999 Two temblors rock plateau at Test Site One earthquake By Keith Rogers Review-Journal A pair of earthquakes rattled Frenchman Flat at the Nevada Test Site on Monday, where a surge of seismic activity this month crescendoed into a moderate, magnitude 4.3 temblor at 10:52 a.m., authorities said. The earthquake was followed about an hour later by a smaller, 3.5-magnitude jolt in the same location -- Frenchman Lake on the plateau -- where four other earthquakes of at least magnitude 3 have occurred this month, according to officials at the University of Nevada, Reno Seismological Laboratory. While instruments monitored by the Reno lab recorded the largest of Monday's two quakes at magnitude 4.3, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Denver listed it as a magnitude 4.5. Department of Energy spokesman Darwin Morgan said both earthquakes Monday were felt by the few employees who work at the Hazardous Spills Test Facility, near the epicenters on the dry lake bed at Frenchman Flat. "They both described it as a pretty good ride. A shaking. The secretary said she could hear the windows rattling. It's one thing she said she'd never want to do again," Morgan said. Unlike the 2.7-magnitude earthquake that shook northwest Las Vegas on Dec. 14 and was noticed by only some area residents, Monday's earthquake at the Nevada Test Site was strong enough to cause moderate damage. Luckily, no injuries or damage was reported. David Von Seggern, a seismologist at the UNR lab, said Monday's magnitude-4.3 earthquake was the largest of six this month at Frenchman Lake, about 15 miles north of the government town Mercury, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "We've been having a swarm of events," he said, referring to other magnitude-3 or greater earthquakes. Two of the quakes were detected Saturday, and the others were on Jan. 5 and Jan. 11. "This is kind of new. We haven't seen a magnitude 3 in this area for about three years," Von Seggern said. He said all six of the Frenchman Flat earthquakes have been near or along the Rock Valley Fault, the same fault geologists believe triggered a much stronger, magnitude-5.6 earthquake at Little Skull Mountain on June 29, 1992. Ground shaking from that quake knocked out windows, cracked walls and brought down ceiling panels at the Yucca Mountain Project field operations center, 12 miles from the proposed nuclear waste repository site. The federal government is studying whether Yucca Mountain, located 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas near the test site, can be the repository for the nation's high-level nuclear waste. Sens. Richard Bryan and Harry Reid, both D-Nev., respectively described Monday's earthquakes as "another wake-up call" and more evidence the Yucca Mountain Project and the temporary waste storage bill in Congress are "on shaky ground." "Nevada ranks third in the nation for current seismic activity," the senators said in a joint statement. "Since 1976, there have been 621 seismic events of magnitude greater than 2.5 within a 50-mile radius of the proposed waste sites at (the Nevada Test Site) and Yucca Mountain." Test site spokesman Morgan said the location of this month's earthquakes is not far from where full-scale nuclear weapons tests have been conducted below and above ground, although the release of strain Monday in the Earth's crust was much deeper -- seven miles beneath the surface -- instead of several thousand feet down where some of the cavities from nuclear tests are. ========================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 1945: "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." "The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
