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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

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 ...

San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are located on the Pacific Plate while San Francisco, Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are ... California Earthquake Data Center, this fault zone is one of ...