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 ...

But powerful earthquakes also can occur in intraplate fault zones, sometimes far from where tectonic plates meet. Significant earthquakes were frequent in Reno's early days. In a 55-year stretch ...

But powerful earthquakes also can occur in intraplate fault zones, sometimes far from where tectonic plates meet. "We're not on a plate boundary here in Nevada," Bogolub explained. "But what we do ...