An earthquake jolted western Nevada on Monday afternoon, with the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at UNR reporting a magnitude estimate of 5.8. The quake's magnitude earlier had been estimated at ...

Nevada earthquake: Magnitude-6.5 temblor struck near Tonopah, closes down highway Though the largest quake of this sequence hit just after 4 a.m. Friday morning, Kent stressed Nevada is not yet ...

On Oct. 11, the Nevada Seismological Lab recorded a 1.6-magnitude earthquake about 11 miles southwest of Henderson and a 0.9-magnitude earthquake 13 miles northwest of Las Vegas three days later.

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rattled western Nevada just before sunrise today (May 15), waking up people at 4:03 a.m. local time (11:03 UTC), well before their morning alarms went off, according to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A preliminary magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit near Yerington, Nevada. It has fluctuated between M5.5 to 5.8. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck around 3:10 p.m ...

Far fewer significant earthquakes occur in Southern Nevada than in the north, but the filling of Lake Mead in the mid-1930s has been blamed for a series of subsequent temblors measured 4 to 5 in ...

An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.5 hit a remote area of Nevada on Friday morning, about 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas and near the California border, the US Geological Survey says.

Earthquake swarms are not unusual for Nevada, Savran said. Another swarm, the 2014-2015 Sheldon swarm in the northwest corner of Nevada, had “orders of magnitude more earthquakes and lasted for ...

Earlier this year, Nevada saw its largest earthquake in 66 years, when a 6.5 magnitude quake hit a remote area about 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The powerful May earthquake was felt “in ...

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake in Yerington, Nevada was felt in Sacramento, California region and South Lake Tahoe in Placer County, according to USGS ...