This is a breaking news story and will be updated. An earthquake jolted western Nevada on Monday afternoon, with the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at UNR reporting a magnitude estimate of 5.8 ...

RENO, Nev. — Nevada's largest earthquake in 66 years left little more than cracked asphalt and shaken residents in its wake, but according to the top scientist at the state's seismological lab ...

What she was feeling was Nevada's largest earthquake in 66 years; a magnitude 6.5 temblor epicentered along US Route 95 about 36 miles from Tonopah. It struck at roughly 4:03 a.m. Her kids were ...

The death in Nevada is illustrative of the significant earthquake risk the Silver State, though not as bad as California, still endures. The Reno area, for instance, has a seismic risk that ...

It was just before 11 p.m. on Oct. 2, 1915, when brief, recurring temblors felt by residents of two Nevada communities turned out to be precursors of what would prove to be the largest earthquake ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes have rumbled under northwestern Nevada like a seismic drumroll since midsummer, and in recent days, they have built to a crescendo. This does not necessarily mean a ...

Nevada has experienced four earthquakes since 8am ET, with the strongest reaching a 4.0 magnitude. The swarm hit Valmy, which is about 200 miles southwest of Reno, on Monday. The US Geological ...

Areas within 30 miles of Las Vegas have a 12-percent chance of experiencing a magnitude 6.0 earthquake within the next 50 years, according to the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. And most ...

A swarm of hundreds of earthquakes in Nevada has intensified recently, prompting experts to warn people to be ready in case larger ones hit. Starting in July, some 750 earthquakes, mostly ...

The earthquake activity that began in July 2014 in the Sheldon Wildlife Refuge in far northwest Nevada is continuing to shake residents. University of Nevada, Reno seismologists are monitoring the ...