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Great Dixie Valley Quake Signals Vast Shifts in Land
Scientists led by Prof. David Slemmons study Dixie Valley Nevada after a major earthquake that caused 26 mile fault scars and a possible 20 foot vertical shift. The sparsely populated basin reported no casualties, though experts warn intruding into a populated area could have been disastrous.
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David Slemmons
University of Nevada
Slemmons
Dixie Valley
Fallon
Sparsley
San Francisco
Manhattan Island