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Central U.S. quake threat debated

The earthquake risk of the central United States may not be as high as feared.

References:

Kerkela, S. . . . P. Segall. 1998. Strain accumulation in the New Madrid seismic zone from GPS data, 1993–1997. Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. December. San Francisco.

Newman, A., S. Stein, et al. 1998. Smaller-than-expected motions and implied lower-than-expected seismic hazard from GPS surveys across the New Madrid seismic zone. Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. December. San Francisco.

Sources:

Paul Segall
Stanford University
Department of Geophysics
Stanford, CA 94305

Seth Stein
Northwestern University
Department of Geological Science
1847 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 25 & 26, December 19 & 26, 1998, p. 400. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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