- Note - Geologist Jim Berkland successfully predicted
yet another quake...this one near Lake Tahoe and registering
5.2. Berkland had forecast there was an 80% probability
there would be a 3.5-6.5M quake in Northern California between June 20-27, 2005.
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- USGS
report: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_zuau.html
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- 4.8 Earthquake Strikes Outside Truckee - Rattles
Residents.
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- 6-26-5
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- TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) -- An
earthquake struck Sunday morning several miles north of Lake Tahoe, according
to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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- A Nevada County Sheriff's Department dispatcher said
there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries from the quake,
felt as far away as Sacramento, about 100 miles southeast of here.
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- At Glenshire General Store in Truckee, workers prepared
to dash out the door as the ground shook.
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- "It was just one big thump. Everything shook but
nothing fell off the shelves," said owner Tina Stull. "It was
just a big, strong jolt. We had a lot of scared people. Everybody just
sort of froze."
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- Employee Pam McCowan added: "It went on long enough
that we considered running out of the store."
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- The magnitude-4.8 quake hit at 11:45 a.m. and was centered
about 8 miles east of Truckee.
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- Bill Straka, of Palo Alto, was hiking in the Sierra Nevada
near Donner Pass at about 7,300 feet when the quake hit.
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- "We heard a rumbling sound, enough so that I stopped
and wondered what it was. Then we felt a fairly sharp little bump under
us on the ground," Straka said by cell phone.
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