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Sierra County Department of Social Services
Dorn, Christina Case Manager
202 Front Street
Loyalton, CA 96118
Phone: : 530-993-6720
Fax: : 530-993-6767
VI Radio and Television Stations
& Emergency Management Information
KVMR 89.5 Variety
Business Manager Brian McInerney
120 Bridge Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
Office (530) 265-9073
STAR 94.FM Hot AC
1255 East Main St. #A
Grass Valley, CA
530.272.3424
KNCO AM 830 News Talk
1255 E Main St
Grass Valley, CA.
Listener Line (530) 477-5626
Business Line (530) 272-3424
River 103.7 The River
Panama and Mike
961 Matley Lane #120
Reno, NV 89502
(775) 829-1964
Loyalton Senior Center
Limited Regional Transit
Address: 302 1st St,
Loyalton, CA 96118
Phone: (530) 993-4770
Most people residing in the High Sierra Area are probably not too concerned about seismic hazards. However, moderate to strong earthquakes do
occasionally strike in the Sierra Nevada. Such earthquakes usually happen because (1) vertical adjustments are still being made within the recently
uplifted (geologic time wise) Sierran block and (2) the range is wedged between two tectonically active areas: On the west side, the North American
and Pacific plates continue to crunch and grind past each other, while to east, extensional faulting continues to shape the Basin and Range province.
These geologic processes cause stress not only to accumulate within the two individual regions, but also within the Sierra Nevada province. Consequently,
at least 20 earthquakes greater than magnitude five (M5), three of which were greater than M6), have been recorded within the area since 1855.
Some of these have generated ground shaking and landslides that have caused significant damage to structures and roads.
