ELKO COUNTY ... Daniel Trugman, an assistant professor at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, said the two largest earthquakes occurred on normal faults. These kind of faults and orientation ...

As to the science, Rowe said, the quakes have helped shape the landscape of Elko County and Northern Nevada. “Many earthquakes on these faults have ... to find other lines of funding, because ...

Nevada has experienced a series of four earthquakes since 8 AM ET on Monday, with the strongest registering a magnitude of 4.0. The tremors struck near Valmy, located roughly 200 miles southwest of ...

Myanmar is vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on a geological fault line. Located along one of the world's most ... of the Center for Neotectonic Studies at the University of Nevada at Reno, US ...

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

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...