Tag: faults

January 20, 2021

Bloomberg News: Interview with Jim Faulds about Walker Lane Fault System

Jim Faulds explains the Walker Lane fault system and resulting geothermal resources in the first part of this Bloomberg TV film.   A Tesla Co-Founder’s Big...

May 27, 2020

NEW NBMG STORY MAP

Plate Tectonics, Faults, and Folding: An Introduction to the Structure of the Earth, Crustal Movement, and Associated Land Forms. This wonderful story map by Rachel...

October 16, 2019

A New Plate Boundary in the Making? The Walker Lane

Blue Dot 159, by Dave Schlom and Matt Fidler, Sept. 20, 2019 Listen to this 53-minute audio interview with Jim Faulds. “Dave investigates the idea...

April 24, 2019

NBMG Research Featured in Wired Magazine

An article in WIRED magazine recently released describes cutting-edge research by Jim Faulds, Bill Hammond, and Rich Koehler (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology) on...

December 16, 2016

Fairview Peak and Dixie Valley Earthquakes M7.1 and M6.9 — December 16, 1954

  You can visit the site of these earthquakes and view the scarps using this road guide: The Great Highway 50 Rock Tour, by D.D...

January 16, 2016

AEG Meeting—Earthquake Hazards in Carson City—by Craig dePolo

ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGISTS, GREAT BASIN SECTION (AEG) MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, January 21, 2016 SPEAKER: Dr. Craig dePolo, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...

August 28, 2014

American Canyon M6.1 Earthquake in CA – data from Nevada Geodetic Laboratory

A message from Bill Hammond at the NBMG Nevada Geodetic Laboratory: American Canyon M6.1 earthquake in the northern San Francisco Bay area: NBMG researchers have...

August 13, 2014

Earthquake Faults in Las Vegas—video on News 3

Late Quaternary faults in Las Vegas are in need of a modern state-of-the-art analysis of their earthquake potential. This news clip, prepared by Channel 3...

February 7, 2014

New OFR on Eglington Fault—Clark County

Open-File Report 13-12 Evidence for High Contemporary Slip Rates along the Eglington Fault, Clark County, Nevada by Craig M. dePolo, Wanda J. Taylor, and James...

July 19, 2012

GPS data and Death Valley Fault Zone

Faculty from Nevada Geodetic Laboratory (NGL) recently published an article on Death Valley (J. Geophys. Res., 117, B06404,doi:10.1029/2011JB008552). Their research uses GPS data from the NGL MAGNET network to infer an interpretation of geologic e…