HEADS UP! Back to back surface earthquake occurred in Nevada -- a hundred miles apart -- both at dormant volcanic locations.

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/4172014-nevada-volcanoes-rumbling-3-0m-event-strikes-lunar-crater-volcanic-complex/

First, a 3.0M struck near the Lunar Craters volcanic complex.
Occurring at 0km , recorded as a surface earthquake.

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nevada-volcano-earthquake2.jpg

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nn00444070#summary(
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nn00444070#summary)

Event Time

2014-04-17 23:04:29 UTC

2014-04-17 16:04:29 UTC-07:00 at epicenter

2014-04-17 18:04:29 UTC-05:00 system time

Location
38.684°N 115.709°W depth=0.0km (0.0mi)

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This surface event literally means a shallow rupture in the crust has
occurred, the earthquake happening actually at, or near the surface.

In this case, the surface is already prone for movement at the Lunar
Craters of Nevada — a natural weak spot in the crust.

Lunar Craters volcanic field 2255 m / 7,398 ft
Nevada, USA , 38.25°N / -116.05°W
Last Eruption: approximately 15,000 years ago

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/craters-nevada.jpg

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/lunar_crater.html(
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/lunar_crater.html)

The Lunar Crater volcanic field is a zone of vulcanism covering over
300 km2 at the southern end of the Pancake Range in the Great Basin
Desert, Nevada. It contains numerous cinder cones and lava flows,
fissures, and, most visibly, the 150 m deep Lunar Crater, a 1050 m
wide and nearly circular maar (explosion crater) believed to have
formed about 15,000 years ago.
Lunar Crater is one of Nevada’s 6 National Natural Landmarks.
Background:
From Wood and Kienle, 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States
and Canada: Cambridge University Press, 354p., p.256-262, Contribution
by John C. Dohrenwend (cited on CVO / USGS website (
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Nevada/description_nevada_volcanics.html#lunar_crater
) ):

The Lunar Crater volcanic field, an apparent middle to late Pliocene
and Pleistocene continuation of the Reveille Range volcanic field
immediately to the southwest, is superposed across the
25-million-year-old Lunar Lake caldera, a crudely circular topographic
basin on the crest of the Pancake Range. The field contains
approximately 95 late Pliocene and Pleistocene vents and at least 35
associated lava flows contained within a northeast-trending zone, up
to 10 kilometers wide and approximately 40 kilometers long, that
extends obliquely across the flanks and crest of the range. Vents
include cinder cones, elongate fissures, and at least two maars. Lunar
Crater, a nearly circular maar, approximately 130 meters deep and
1,050 meters wide, is the most distinctive feature of the field. A
second maar, approximately 550 meters wide and 65 meters deep, occurs
at the south end of a northeast-trending chain of coalesced cinder
cones. Several other northeast-trending alignments of closely spaced
and coalesced cinder cones characterize the field. Lava flows range up
to 1.9 kilometers wide and 6.1 kilometers long with thicknesses from
less than 3 meters to as much as 25 meters. Progressive degradation of
the cones and flows is very similar to that displayed by other
basaltic volcanic fields in the southwest Basin and Range (including
the Cima, Crater Flat, and Coso fields). Many of the flows in the
northeast and central parts of the field are veneered with varying
thicknesses of air-fall tephra. In other areas, all but the youngest
flows are mantled with extensive deposits of aeolian silt and fine
sand.

The Lunar Crater volcanic field is in the central Great Basin,
approximately 105 kilometers east-northeast of Tonopah, Nevada, and
140 kilometers southwest of Ely, Nevada. U.S. Highway 6 runs through
the center of the Lunar Crater field.
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The 2nd earthquake which occurred in Nevada was ALSO a surface event.

Occurring at 0km depth, again near dormant volcanoes, however these
volcanoes are being MINED FOR GOLD. The actual earthquake occurring
several miles away from the strip mines in this screenshot:

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/surface-earthquakes-nevada-april-17-2014.jpg

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000pp5e#summary(
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000pp5e#summary)

Event Time

2014-04-17 17:07:21 UTC

2014-04-17 10:07:21 UTC-07:00 at epicenter

2014-04-17 12:07:21 UTC-05:00 system time

Location
40.834°N 116.344°W depth=0.0km (0.0mi)
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Overall, this is a further sign of the obvious unrest occurring along
the Western portion of the craton.