Living in Las Vegas

I didn’t feel anything, but I wish I did.  I don’t want to experience a California style earthquake, but I think a mini little Vegas-sized shaker could be fun.   Shortly after 7am this morning residents of North Las Vegas, Aliante and Nellis Air Force Base were jostled by mother earth for about 5 seconds.  One lady commented that while she felt the quake, her father in the other room and her neighbors didn’t feel it.

I did not know it, but Las Vegas has 7 fault lines running through it. This particular earthquake was along the Arrow Canyon Range fault that runs northeast along the northwestern side of I-15  I also didn’t know it, but Nevada is third most earthquake active state.  Apparently Nevada experiences thousands of earthquakes each year that are too small to feel and hundreds that could possibly be felt.  I knew we have mini earthquakes sometimes, but I didn’t know we were this shaky.

On a side note, this is my 100th post!