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 ...

Nevada earthquake had no injuries, aftershocks felt. Major fault lines in Las Vegas, frequent seismic activity. California and Nevada brace for more future earthquakes. On Tuesday evening ...

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 state is striped with fault lines, and more than two dozen earthquakes of 6.0 and above have struck Nevada in records dating back to 1860. Here's a look back at the highest-magnitude ...

Findings showed that the San Andreas Fault has an increase in small earthquakes in late summer and early fall, while the faults along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada see more earthquakes in ...

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's ...

According to the California Earthquake Authority, earthquake risks across the Sacramento region are caused by three fault lines: Cleveland Hills, Sierra Nevada Fault, and San Joaquin Fault.