Fault Line Beneath Lake Tahoe Could Be Devastating

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Earth Observation News: Nevada, USA

Lake Tahoe Fault Line a Major Concern

POSTED: 10:08 am PST December 26, 2006
UPDATED: 1:23 pm PST December 26, 2006

The biggest fault beneath Lake Tahoe could be due to rupture any time, according to an evaluation being prepared by researchers who probed Tahoe and nearby Fallen Leaf Lake earlier this year. Potentially tsunami-spawning faults lurk beneath the lake. A magnitude 7 or greater earthquake could trigger an underwater landslide that quickly displaces huge amounts of water, potentially sending giant waves surging into parks, campgrounds, homes and marinas along the lake's shore, and possibly overtopping a dam that regulates flow into the Truckee River. In addition, it appears from sediment layers that the last big earthquake on the West Tahoe fault was 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. That's significant, because the fault seems to

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