Out in the Nevada desert, tucked away in a deep, water-filled limestone cavern, lives one of the rarest fish on the ...

Scientists say the size of earthquake faults may have been previously underestimated, extending potentially dangerous ...

Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle—but did you know the U.S. has its own version? It's called the Nevada Triangle.

Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines, requiring a shift to 3D models for better earthquake ...

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) earlier this month accepted two stipulations issuing civil penalties to Great Basin Transmission Company (Great Basin) and Aspen Developers Corp.

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 ...

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

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...