“The overall message of the map is that there are lots of faults in Nevada and that we could have a major earthquake pretty much anywhere in the state,” said Jonathan Price, director and state ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Nevada on Monday ... prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

A swarm of nearly 200 small earthquakes ... earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault. At the same time, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San ...

“The simple reason is there are a lot of active faults in Nevada ... 6.0 Small temblors in Southern Nevada Far fewer significant earthquakes occur in Southern Nevada than in the north ...

And according to a report titled “Nevada’s Earthquake History” on shakeout.org, a website managed by the Southern California ... has “dozens of active faults,” an article about Nevada ...