Active state for quakes Nevada is the nation’s third-most earthquake active state, behind Alaska and California, the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology reports. More than 220,000 quakes have ...

This story was originally published in the 2024 edition of Discovery magazine, the College of Science's publication. This ...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has stopped short of letting the Earthquakes build a private soccer complex at ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...

“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 ...

As Nevada gears up for International ShakeOut Day on October 17, schools across the state are preparing students for potential earthquakes. At Tom Williams Elementary School, second graders ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Did you feel it? According to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory with the University of Reno, a 4.3 earthquake was discovered northwest of Tonopah. It happened around 6: ...

A recent shake table test at the University of Nevada, Reno, revealed that in the retrofitted ... In that test the model was subjected to a series of simulated earthquakes starting with small ...

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 ...

reducing the risk of a dam breach during an earthquake,” according to a news release. The Nevada State Public Works Division, the grant sub-applicant, has undertaken a yearslong project to fortify the ...