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November 17, 2002 | Andrew Bridges, Associated Press Writer
The magnitude 7.9 earthquake that rocked Alaska on Nov. 3 has lent new credence to the theory that large temblors can trigger seismic activity even thousands of miles away. Immediately after the earthquake, the largest to strike on land since the 1906 quake that leveled most of San Francisco, seismic instruments recorded increased activity as far away as California. There, swarms of tiny temblors shook the Geysers, north of San Francisco, and Long Valley, in the eastern Sierra.
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July 26, 1992 | JENIFER WARREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
This would seem the perfect place for an earthquake. There are no skyscrapers to topple, no bridges to crumble, no dams to crack. In fact, there is no sign of life at all, save for the ghostly contrails of Air Force jets passing high above the desert floor. Still, when a 5.6 temblor rustled the sagebrush here late last month, it caused a major stir across Nevada. The federal government wants to build the nation's first dump for high-level radioactive waste nearby.
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August 5, 1999 | JOHN M. GLIONNA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Squinting against the enveloping gloom, engineer Jim Niggemyer boards the dusty yellow mining train for its long, slow descent into the depths of America's nuclear solution--through the twisting tunnel that may one day lead to a nuclear-age pharaoh's tomb. Far out in the bleak desert 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, government researchers are busy drilling, heating and analyzing the depths of this ancient mountain for its likely future as the nation's first high-level nuclear graveyard.