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August 31, 2021 - 11:05 am
 
Updated August 31, 2021 - 11:40 am

While northwestern Nevada prepares for the Caldor Fire, northeast Nevada had a jolt of its own.

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake registered just after 10:20 a.m. about 16 miles south of Wells, according to an email from the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey. It initially was recorded as a 5.4.

No other information was immediately available.

Contact Tony Garcia at tgarcia@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0307. Follow @TonyGLVNews on Twitter.

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