The U.S. Geological Survey listed the earthquake’s epicenter about 24 miles northeast of Nellis Air Force Base. The Nevada ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, a former nuclear test site, sparking tremors along the ...

Fault lines exist on many major streets across ... but the odds of a devastating earthquake in Las Vegas are “astronomically low.” “Las Vegas itself is a pretty safe place in comparison ...

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 ...

las vegas -- Engineers moved some structures at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump after rock samples indicated a fault line unexpectedly ran beneath their original location, an Energy ...

A swarm of earthquakes originating in Death Valley has rippled through the area, raising concerns about the stability of fault lines near the Las Vegas Valley. Seismologists are closely monitoring ...

An earthquake of the caliber that rocked China this week causing catastrophic loss of life and widespread damage is unlikely to occur on less powerful faults in the Las Vegas Valley, but the ...

last week, however, earthquake insurance would have been nice to have. “Just 100 miles away from Las Vegas, there was significant damage,” Cassetty said. “We have fault lines running through ...

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's ...

but there are still several faults in the southern half of the state capable of producing a quake magnitude 6 or greater. The City of Las Vegas will be participating in the national Great Shake Out ...

UNLV Geoscience Professor Dr. Wanda Taylor has been studying earthquakes for ... but I didn’t know it was a fault line," says one woman. So how safe is Las Vegas if a significant rumble were ...