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With the dark clouds looming over the Las Vegas valley, you should be on the lookout for active weather throughout the ...
Seismic activity is on the rise in Central Idaho with over 52 small earthquakes recorded near the Sawtooth Fault ...
The U.S. Geological Survey listed the earthquake’s epicenter about 24 miles northeast of Nellis Air Force Base. The Nevada ...
A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, a former nuclear test site, sparking tremors along the ...
Multiple earthquakes hit just miles outside of a military base in Nevada, which played a significant role in America's ...
A dozen earthquakes were detected in a US town that sits on top of a fault line capable of unleashing a powerful and ...
Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...
The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...
Tourists in Crete were shaken and buildings damaged after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the ... situated along a complex fault boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.
A: We use shake tables to simulate earthquakes and see how soils, foundations and structures respond. By building test models and shaking them with real earthquake records, we can spot weaknesses and ...
The Cascadia fault line is the focus of the new study conducted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It breaks down the flooding potential a 9.0 earthquake could bring to the ...
Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock ... along the portion of a fault that slipped at the ...