After an estimated 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled Reno yesterday, Nevadans may wonder: what is considered a big earthquake?

After an estimated 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled Reno yesterday, Nevadans may wonder: what is considered a big earthquake?

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Intraplate earthquakes occur away from tectonic plate boundaries: their locations ...

An earthquake jolted western Nevada on Monday afternoon, with the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at UNR reporting a ...

Intraplate earthquakes occur away from tectonic plate boundaries: their locations are difficult to predict, risking huge damage and loss of life. The 2001 Bhuj earthquake (featured in this book) was ...

His rationale was that the the temblor was believed to be an oceanic intraplate earthquake. Yusuke Yamashita, an assistant professor of seismology with Kyoto University’s Research Center for ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

I study earthquakes, seismic waves, and Earth processes in many parts of the world, and have long been obsessed with the enigma of why earthquakes occur in the Eastern United States (EUS), deep in the ...

An earthquake has been detected in the Peak District. According to the British Geological Survey (BGS), the tremor's epicentre was north of the town of Buxton, close to Combs Head. The 2.5 ...

Mobile seismic stations are used to study: the structure of the lithosphere, spatial and temporal seismicity in intraplate settings especially in postglacial faults, the reasons behind periodic swarms ...