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 ...

For Nevada, it’s not a question of if “the ... behind California and Alaska. There are active earthquake faults in nearly every part of the state. In the Las Vegas Valley, even a moderately ...

Nevada is located on a single plate (the North American), nonetheless with faults capable of producing earthquakes in the 7-plus range, Bogolub said. Nevada’s 7 most powerful earthquakes The ...

The Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno is beginning ... U.S. Geological Survey study to create an earthquake hazard map in the Reno-Carson City urban corridor. “There are several ...

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

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 ...

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake Monday in Nevada rumbled ... The epicenter’s location is not on a known fault, according to mapping from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, but is near multiple ...

A cluster of nine small earthquakes hit Spanish Springs on Sunday and Monday – with two at 3.1 and 3.4 in magnitude that would've been felt in downtown Reno high rises. It was the region’s ...

The earthquakes that struck near Ridgecrest Friday and Saturday took place on two separate fault lines that don't connect to the San Andres fault, The Sacramento Bee reported. However ...

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...