This is a breaking news story and will be updated. An earthquake jolted western Nevada on Monday afternoon, with the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at UNR reporting a magnitude estimate of 5.8 ...

LYON COUNTY, Nev. (KOLO) - A magnitude 2.62 convulsion hit near Yerington on Saturday, April 19, at 7:49 a.m., according to ...

A number of small earthquakes since early Sunday in northern Nevada have been recorded by the Nevada Seismological Laboratory ...

NORTHERN NEVADA, Nev. (KOLO) - In the past 60 days, more than 24 earthquakes have occurred within 55 kilometers of Sunday ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Earthquakes — one in December and another ... And what scientists are doing is working, said Brandon Senger, the Nevada Department of Wildlife’s supervising fisheries biologist.

(CNN)-- Experts are mystified by a "swarm" of earthquakes hitting Reno, Nevada. Quakes aren't uncommon there, but analysts just do not know what has caused 344 of them in the area in the past week ...

Nevada has experienced four earthquakes since 8am ET, with the strongest reaching a 4.0 magnitude. The swarm hit Valmy, which is about 200 miles southwest of Reno, on Monday. The US Geological ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

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