with the largest exceeding magnitude 4.0. Prior to Monday's earthquake, the fault line near Yerington had recorded thousands of smaller tremors, according to the Nevada Seismological Lab.
New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...
The Parker Butte earthquake, as it has been renamed, occurred about 7 kilometers deep along the Wabuska Lineament between Yerington and Silver Springs.
(FOX5) - Any day, anytime, anywhere in Nevada, there could be an earthquake. There are usually ... between metro Las Vegas and some of the big faults that are along the Nevada/ California border.
A magnitude-5.5 earthquake Monday afternoon rattled parts of Nevada and California. The earthquake at 3:08 p.m. was centered near the central Nevada town of Yerington, about 60 miles southeast of ...
The East Coast was rocked by another earthquake on Monday ... unable to easily identify active faults. There is a difference between faults and fault lines. The USGS explains a fault is a ...
New research shows that slow, silent stress buildup and fault geometry are crucial in triggering earthquakes A new study has ...