Update: Earthquake Rocks Mother Lode

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Earthquake in the Walker Colville area, west of HWY 395 in California

Update at 5:17 p.m.: Initial reports from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say the earthquake had its epicenter in Smith Valley, Nevada. This was revised to the Walker/Coleville area of ​​California, west of Interstate 395, which was closed from that area to the Nevada Stateline due to a rockslide. Here are more details about the earthquake and its aftershocks.

Original post 4:20 pm: Sonora, CA – An earthquake lasting more than 30 seconds shook Mother Lode this afternoon.

At Clarke Broadcasting Studios on South Washington Street in Sonora, the building began to shake but no items fell from the shelves or pictures shattered. Then came calls pouring into the studio with reports of earthquakes in Tulum and Calaveras counties from Arnold to Columbia, Sonora, Twin Hart and Groveland.

The Southern California Earthquake Data Center reported a magnitude of 6.2 initially and then lowered to 5.9. It was centered in Smith Valley, Nevada, located 30 miles southeast of Gardnerville and Minden, Nevada, as shown on the map below, and is also near Markleville. Aftershocks last in the range of 3.1 to 4.2 degrees. Interstate 395 was closed in the Walker/Coleville area to the Nevada state line due to the rockslide caused by the earthquake.

USGS earthquake map

Written by Tracy Petersen.

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