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Comment by joecool1029

So since I live near epicenter, there's one thing that changed geographically very recently. Nearby round valley reservoir was being worked on for years, last fall they got the authorization to pump it back to full and it was told it might take years. Rainy asf winter though so it's pumped back almost full from already 66% to 92% now. I'm wondering if billions of gallons of water getting added nearby affected pressure on the fault. Here's today's operations data (we just had 3.5in of rain past couple days too): https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf

EDIT: just had another aftershock right after posting this. Felt the 2.0 a couple hours ago too

EDIT2: yup usgs finally added it https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95...

parent joecool1029 2 years ago

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