Fairview Peak is a
summit
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The term (mountain top) is generally used only for ...
in the
Clan Alpine Mountains
The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at above sea level. The mountains lie to ...
of the
U.S. state
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of
Nevada
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.
The elevation is .
Fairview Peak was so named on account of the scenic views it affords.
Variant names were "Fairview Cairn" and "Fairview Mountain".
The ghost town of
Fairview, Nevada
Fairview is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada, in the United States.
History
Discovery of silver in the area in 1905 led to several claims and the creation of a boom town in 1906. Some of the first mining claims were bought by George N ...
takes its name from the nearby peak.
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1954 earthquakes
A very large earthquake doublet
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In seismology, doublet earthquakes – and more generally, multiplet earthquakes – were originally identified as multiple earthquakes with nearly identical waveforms originating from the same Epicenter, location. They are now characteri ...
occurred on December 16, 1954. The Dixie Valley/Fairview earthquakes occurred four minutes apart, each with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). The initial shock measured 7.3 and the second shock measured 6.9 . Damage to man-made structures was minimal because the region was sparsely populated at the time, but oblique-slip motion on a normal fault resulted in the appearance of large fault scarp
A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other. The topographic expression of fault scarps results from the differential erosion of rocks of contrastin ...
s.
References
Mountains of Churchill County, Nevada
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