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 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 ...

There have been no reports of damage in the sparsely populated area in northwestern Elko County halfway between Elko and ...

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 ...

it also causes deformation farther east in the crust of western Nevada creating the complex web of faults in the Walker Lane. Anyone who felt the earthquake is requested to fill out a form on the ...

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake Monday in Nevada rumbled through the Lake Tahoe ... but is near multiple unnamed faults that dot the rugged, empty terrain southeast of Reno. The quake’s epicenter ...

A cluster of nine small earthquakes hit Spanish Springs on Sunday and Monday – with two at 3.1 and 3.4 in magnitude that would've been felt in downtown Reno high rises. It was the region’s ...

how wide are faults? 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 ...