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Assessing The Impact Of Additional Seismic Sources On The Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment For The Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Suchan Lamichhane, Barbara Luke, Wanda Taylor, William Savage
Assessing The Impact Of Additional Seismic Sources On The Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment For The Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Suchan Lamichhane, Barbara Luke, Wanda Taylor, William Savage
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- The densely populated (~2M) Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (LVV) is underlain by sediments that are cut by six mapped, active normal faults that comprise the Las Vegas Valley Fault System (LVVFS). Recent research indicates that these faults have the potential to generate earthquakes up to a maximum magnitude of 6.8.
- The current (2008) USGS national seismic hazard model (NSHM) explicitly considered only the Eglington fault of the LVVFS (the remaining 5 LVVFS sources were classified as "Class B" in the USGS fault and fold database and effectively given a weight of zero in the 2008 NSHM) and also did not …