Snowfall
502"
season total at the main lodge
Mammoth Lakes in 1982
What happened
- Earthquake & volcanoUSGS hazard designation and sustained media coverage
Years of USGS monitoring presence, continuing earthquake activity and repeated negative national media coverage kept a volcano stigma attached to Mammoth through the 1980s and 1990s.
years of USGS presence, ongoing earthquake activity, and plenty of negative media coverage, did nothing good for real estate values
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The ground
263 recorded earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the Long Valley Caldera, the largest at M4.3.