Fairview Peak is located near to Highway 50 between Fallon & Austin, Nevada.  On December 16, 1954 at 3:08am, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck about seven miles west of here.  It was part of a series of six earthquakes & two aftershocks felt between July & December.  The result of the December earthquake exposed a 50-mile long fault along the base of Fairview Peak & over in the Stillwater Range, uplifting the mountains six feet in a matter of moments.  In other areas, the land rose an abrupt 20 feet.  Here nearly 70 years later one can still see the fault line exposed below Fairview Peak.