 |
Earthquake
Information | Earthquake
Preparedness Research Projects | About the Seismo Lab | Links |
Reno/Carson Fault Map |
| The map below shows the principal Quaternary and
suspected Quaternary faults in western Nevada. Faults are shown schematically,
with balls on the downthrown side and arrows indicating strike-slip
motion. The lines with dots are seismogenic lineaments. Click here or on a fault to view more information. |
|
| Modified from the paper ``Earthquake
Occurrence in the Reno-Carson City Urban Corridor'' by Craig M.
dePolo, John G. Anderson, Diane M. dePolo, and Jonathan G. Price,
published in the Seismological Research Letters, Volume 68, May/June,
1997, pages 401-412. Kris Pizarro of the Nevada
Bureau of Mines and Geology drafted the map. |
| A high-resolution of the map (268kb) can be found here in Adobe PDF format |
| Home | What's New | Comments | Plain Text Version |
 University
of Nevada |
Page maintained by: John Louie Last modified: 1/31/2003 Disclaimers |