Scientists discover 'moving mountains'

Reno researchers have for the first time recorded a cluster of nearly 1,600 small earthquakes 20 miles beneath Lake Tahoe – the world’s second-largest alpine lake. Based on observations from the university’s Nevada Seismic Network and an ultra-sensitive Global Positioning System (GPS) station at Slide Mountain, the researchers believe the quake cluster coincided with an unprecedented 8-millimeter uplifting of the ski resort mountain in the Sierra Nevada.

“We’ve been watching earthquakes for 30 years in the Tahoe area and have never witnessed an earthquake ‘swarm’ anything like this,” said Ken Smith

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