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Felt this one in Reno (~80km away) pretty good, strongest I've felt at this location even though I'm up on a hill on a higher Vs. Shake intensity report classified it a III.

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Walker Lane appears to be named directly for explorer Joseph Rutherford Walker (1798-1876), whose name also appears on the Walker River and Walker Pass in the southern Sierras. According to Locke, Billingsley, and Mayo, 1940, "In 1935, finding a

throughgoing shear zone in the region of Goldfield, Billingsley named it

Walker Lane, after the explorer who followed a route affected by the

shape of the land along this zone." (No 1935 paper by Billingsley is cited.)

It seems the name was little used until Clark Burchfiel resurrected it in a 1965 paper.

Burchfiel, C., 1965, Structural geology of the specter Range Quadrangle, Nevada, and its regional significance: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 76 (2), p. 175-192.

Locke, A., Billingsley, P., and Mayo, E.B., 1940, Sierra Nevada Tectonic Pattern: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 51 (4), p. 513-539.

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Thanks for the data-dive! I’ve wondered about the naming. 😎👍

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Where does the northern most extension of the Walker Lane lead to? Where does it meet the Pacific Plate, if it does.?

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Good article! FOP Pacific Cell had a great traverse thru the area south of this in 2019. As soon as I saw the beachball diagram, I started thinking of rotating blocks.

It is fascinating how the current stress field is reoccupying older breaks in the crust. The strain is taking the easy way, rather than bust thru new material.

Now, where’s that guidebook? 😎👍

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