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Magnetic potential map of the Reelfoot Rift. The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
New Madrid fault and earthquake-prone region considered at high risk today. The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.2–8.2 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day.
Locations of quakes magnitude 2.5 or greater in the Wabash Valley (upper right) and New Madrid (lower left) Seismic Zones. The Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (also known as the Wabash Valley Fault System or Zone) is a tectonic region located in the Midwestern United States, centered on the valley of the Lower Wabash River, along the state line between southeastern Illinois and southwestern Indiana.
The 1968 Illinois earthquake (a New Madrid event) [ 4 ] was the largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois. Striking at 11:02 a.m. on November 9, it measured 5.3 on the Richter scale. [ 5 ] Although no fatalities occurred, the event caused considerable structural damage to buildings, including the toppling of chimneys ...
45°N124°W / 45°N 124°W The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States. It is capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis ...
Earthquake predictionis a branch of the science of seismologyconcerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitudeof future earthquakeswithin stated limits,[1][a]and particularly "the determination of parameters for the nextstrong earthquake to occur in a region".[2] Earthquake prediction is sometimes distinguished from ...
Erroneous earthquake prediction Iben Browning (January 9, 1918 – July 18, 1991) was an American business consultant, author, and "self-proclaimed climatologist ." [ 1 ] : p. 2 He is most notable for having made various failed predictions of disasters involving climate , volcanoes , earthquakes , and government collapse.
An intraplate earthquake is an earthquake that occurs in the interior of a tectonic plate, in contrast to an interplate earthquake on the boundary of a tectonic plate. It is also called an intraslab earthquake, especially when occurring in a microplate. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Intraplate earthquakes are relatively rare compared to the more familiar ...