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 ...

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 ...

That sends waves through the earth and other faults do feel those waves," Rowe said. "That said, this kind of earthquake happens pretty frequently in Nevada. So, we can't say that the 7.0 affected ...

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 ...

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 magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the Nevada-California border shortly after 3 p.m. Monday, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor, with an epicenter in Yerington, ...

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 ...

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...