Earthquakes in Nevada

Latest earthquakes in Nevada, United States: 4 in the last 24 hours, 87 in the last 30 days. Updated Nov 10, 2026 00:18 UTC.

Nevada lies in the Basin and Range province, where the crust is slowly being stretched apart. The stretching breaks the land into long mountain ranges separated by valleys, and the faults at the edge of each range produce earthquakes. Nevada is one of the most seismically active states in the lower 48, though most events are small and happen in thinly populated areas. The strongest in the USGS catalog is the magnitude 7.1 Fairview Peak earthquake of December 16, 1954. Only about four minutes later, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the nearby Dixie Valley, in a rare pair of large events. Earlier, the magnitude 6.8 Pleasant Valley earthquake of October 3, 1915 broke the ground for tens of kilometers. The western edge of the state, near Reno and Lake Tahoe, also feels the influence of the Sierra Nevada fault system. The list below shows earthquakes recorded in Nevada during the past 30 days.