A dozen earthquakes were detected in a US town that sits on top of a fault line capable of unleashing a powerful and ...

US city rocked by back-to-back earthquakesNevada has experienced an uptick in seismic activity over the last 24 hours.The US ...

The dozens of earthquakes in the same area are 'unusual' and concerning to scientists, who said it's unclear what's going to ...

"Nevada is the third most seismically ... were put through a simulated response to a major earthquake on the Mt. Rose fault line, coordinating a regional reaction with local law enforcement ...

The region’s active fault lines, including the Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps and the Central Nevada Seismic Belt, contribute to the state’s earthquake activity. The Pleasant Valley fault ...

I was in the kitchen cooking cookies for our yard sale this weekend, all of a sudden there was a rumbling!” one resident told ...

At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to ...

The numbers shift over time. There were 301 Tennessee earthquakes in 2018 but just 11 in 1994. The ground shakes when there is a sudden slip on a fault. The sudden slip releases energy in waves ...

(Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons) When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth’s surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, ...

For the first time, a video of the shift could help researchers understand how and when fault slips occur alongside other earthquake phenomena, like shaking and rolling. "In 25 years (since ...

LOS ANGELES -- Could a monster earthquake sink a portion of Northern California? A new study calculates the risk of where and how much land could sink. The Cascadia fault line is the focus of the ...