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Lady Freedom Returns

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Fri May 22, 2015, 04:52 PM May 2015

5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Eastern Nevada, Including Las Vegas

This alert flash was passed to me via Facebook...


By Sean Breslin
Published May 22 2015 04:03 PM EDT @ weather.com
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook eastern Nevada just before noon local time Friday morning, surprising many residents and Las Vegas tourists who claimed they felt the tremor.

The quake was centered 24 miles south-southwest of Caliente, Nevada, near the border shared by Nevada, Utah and Arizona, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred just 2.6 miles below the surface. The epicenter was about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.


read more @ http://www.weather.com/news/news/eastern-nevada-earthquake-las-vegas
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5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Eastern Nevada, Including Las Vegas (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns May 2015 OP
Clearly God hates Cliven Bundy! KamaAina May 2015 #1
The whole West Coast Is Shakin' fredamae May 2015 #2
My god..I had no idea. dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #3

dixiegrrrrl

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3. My god..I had no idea.
Fri May 22, 2015, 08:13 PM
May 2015

I do know that a lot of earthquakes on the West Coast happen in the spring..we even used to joke about that.
But did not realize there were so many on the same day from BC on down.

Thanks for posting this.

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