For 50 years, the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) has served as a statewide public service unit while embedded as a research division within the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering.
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 ever recorded in the Silver State.
“We’ve noticed a cluster of earthquakes happening around Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley,” said Dr. Christie Rowe, Director of the Nevada Seismological Lab at the University of ...
The Earthquake Engineering Lab is home to our three biaxial shake tables as well as our 6-degree-of-freedom table. The building includes 29,000 square feet of laboratory, office and auditorium space.
The University of Nevada, Reno has been awarded $12.2 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, it was announced Wednesday. This will fund the ...
A number of earthquakes shook Central Nevada and California early this morning. The first quake occurred between Reno and Las Vegas in Nevada. It was a shallow 5.2-magnitude quake that struck at 1 ...