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Evidence for high contemporary slip rates along the Eglington fault, Clark County, Nevada
Evidence for high contemporary slip rates along the Eglington fault, Clark County, Nevada
 
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Title: Evidence for high contemporary slip rates along the Eglington fault, Clark County, Nevada

Author: Craig M. dePolo, Wanda J. Taylor, and James E. Faulds
Year: 2013
Series: Open-File Report 2013-12
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Format: 8 pages, color
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The Eglington fault in northern Las Vegas Valley is an unusual fault in that it is expressed as a faulted warp at the surface and accommodated a large vertical surface offset (10-14 m) in latest Pleistocene sediments relative to its short length of 11 km. Coupled with a competing hydro-compaction hypothesis for faults within the Las Vegas Valley, the earthquake hazard of the Eglington fault has been poorly understood and likely underrepresented. Radiocarbon dates from faulted sediments in the area indicate that the vertical displacement across the fault has occurred in the last ~22 kyr. A preferred vertical fault slip rate of 0.6 m/kyr, and range of 0.25 to 0.9 m/kyr, are estimated using available data. How single event displacements are manifested along the Eglington fault and what the size of those displacements might be is not known, generating uncertainty in estimating the potential earthquake recurrence interval for the fault.

Original Product Code: OF1312