At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines, requiring a shift to 3D models for better earthquake ...

This USGS map of the California-Nevada region displays ... See where the faults lie in Los Angeles. The Southern California Earthquake Center has a similar clickable map detailing the (known ...

Scientists say the size of earthquake faults may have been previously underestimated, extending potentially dangerous ...

But powerful earthquakes also can occur in intraplate fault zones, sometimes far from where tectonic plates meet. "We're not on a plate boundary here in Nevada," Bogolub explained. "But what we do ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

Nevada has experienced four earthquakes since 8am ET ... Valmy sits within a region of active fault lines, including the Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps and the Central Nevada Seismic ...