An interactive online map is a new resource for homeowners and businesses in Nevada to gauge ... key features is that the faults are shown as swaths instead of narrow lines. Users won’t be ...

Nevada residents, emergency planners and other public officials will now be able to easily locate homes, schools or businesses in relation to mapped earthquake fault lines throughout Nevada ...

The friction point: Nevada is one of 12 “point of contact” states that do their own checks. When a sale happens here, state administrators run the buyer’s name through domestic violence ...

Bonde said a grid of active geophones can sense mini-shocks in the earth created by a fault rubbing together, and then geophysicists can triangulate their source and map hidden fault lines.

From 30 feet below ground, in the trench behind the old Incline Elementary School, the story of the fault line made sense. "The trench is the first solid evidence of large-magnitude earthquakes in the ...