A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, a former nuclear test site, sparking tremors along the ...

Doug rides the roller coaster terrain of America's Basin and Range Province. The Basin and Range geologic province is where the Earth’s crust has been raised up and stretched and broken apart ...

The Basin and Range Province of western North America, as seen by Terra’s MODIS imager on Feb. 27, 2020. (Credit: NASA.) This whole region is known as the Basin and Range. Anyone who has driven across ...

Extending from West Texas to California to the north through Utah, the Basin and Range Province features a complex pattern of steep mountain ranges interspersed with flat plains and valleys.

Basin & Range, curated by Checko Salgado, spotlights Basin and Range Province, a geographical area with Oregon’s Crater Lake at one end and Guadalajara, Mexico, at the other. The entire state of ...

They are: the Colorado Plateau, the Arizona Transition Zone and the Basin and Range Province. The Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona is the largest portion, covering 42 percent of the state.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the tremor at 5:35 am local (8:35am ET) near Valmy that sits on top of the Basin and Range Province, which stretches across much of the western US.