An earthquake jolted western Nevada on Monday afternoon ... "But what we do have is active faults — kind of a fancy word of saying 'a crack in the rock.' "When you have rock moving against ...

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

Like most of their earthquake monitoring stations ... in between metro Las Vegas and some of the big faults that are along the Nevada/ California border. It’s a critical site for recording ...

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 ...

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

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

The earthquake struck at 7.46 p.m. PT about three miles northwest of Dublin, California, at a depth of around seven miles, according to the USGS. It was originally measured at a magnitude of 4.2, but ...

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 ...

135-kilometer-long (~84 miles) fault located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range ... They describe how the faults are expressed in the landscape and summarize recent advances in the ...