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Friday, October 15, 2010
Daily Dunklin Democrat

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Because many Missourians live within the New Madrid Seismic Zone, one of the most active seismic zones in the country, each February Missouri observes Earthquake Awareness Month.

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Sue Loughlin
Tue Oct 05, 2010, 05:00 AM EDT

                                         Students learn about earthquake safety

TERRE HAUTE — Tornadoes and floods aren’t the only natural disasters Vigo County residents should prepare for, students at Honey Creek Middle School learned Monday.

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By Michelle Rupp
Updated: Sep 30, 2010 7:09 PM CDT

Little Rock-A drill Wednesday to help government agencies prepare for the possibility of a major earthquake in Arkansas. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management and FEMA both involved in that drill.  Testing reaction to a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.  The hypothetical epicenter was Blytheville.  Experts say a quake that big would be felt as far away as Little Rock. 

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By: Megan Lynch

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KMOX) – How many years have we been hearing about the risk of another major earthquake in our region?

State officials are questioning whether we would know what to do if it hits.

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By: James Dowd
Posted: September 16, 2010

Brian Blake has saved the date.

And he hopes you'll join him.

Specifically, Blake is looking ahead to 10:15 a.m. on April 28, 2011. That's when members of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium will sponsor ShakeOut, an eight-state earthquake drill. The volunteer initiative may be as simple as developing an earthquake safety program or as detailed as holding an organization-wide evacuation exercise, Blake said.

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By:  Earle Farrell
Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010, 4:49 PM CDT

MARION, Ark. - Most people in the Mid-South know all about the New Madrid fault line, but what you may not know is researchers at the University of Memphis have found yet another fault near Marion, Arkansas.  Beatrice Magnani with the University of Memphis Earthquake Center and her crew of graduate students are busy mapping out a newly discovered fault line.  This team of researchers from the University of Memphis is stringing miles of wire along a line that they think is just above the fault. They put out sensors which record the vibrations bouncing back from deep underground.

Down at the other end is another truck that is recording the data. Once all this information is gathered it will be combined to give an image of what it looks like below the surface of the earth.  So the question is, could this fault line produce another earthquake anytime soon?

"We don't know," said Magnani. "What I know is that the length of the fault is 30 miles and if this fault activates all at the same time it could produce 6.9, 7.0 magnitude, which would be devastating to the area."

National Geographic Television will air a special on all this research sometime next year.


Source: www.myfoxmemphis.com

By Karin Hill
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JONESBORO — Although Northeast Arkansas has been spared from major earthquakes in the recent past, the fact remains this region is situated along a major fault line.  For that reason local officials are joining a multi-state preparedness program — the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut Drill — designed to provide people and organizations with life-saving information.

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As New Zealanders recover from a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the country's city of  Christchurch on Friday, September 3, of 2010, transportation officials in the central U.S. continue their efforts in making the Interstate 40 / Hernando-DeSoto Bridge earthquake resistant. 

Since 2000, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), along with the state of Arkansas and the federal government have been retrofitting the bridge to be able to withstand a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.  According to Chuck Langston, director of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), the work on this bridge will benefit the region's economy during the relief and recovery phase following a major earthquake.

You can read more about the retrofitting of the Interstate 40 / Hernando-DeSoto Bridge at
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/sep/07/bridge-work-to-affect-thousands/

 

Article by:  Roger Bilham

Thanks to the planet’s exploding population, more than a billion housing units will be built during the next half century. Many of those will be in urban areas that are vulnerable to catastrophic earthquakes such as the magnitude-7 quake that killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti in January. Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who studies the earthquake vulnerability of cities, sat down recently with Science News contributing editor Alexandra Witze to talk about why builders routinely flout earthquake-engineering regulations, and how urban residents can be kept safe.

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Article by: Marie Saavedra, KY3 News

Branson, Mo. -- Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the earthquakes on the New Madrid fault. Wednesday, those quakes were at the front of many minds during an emergency drill at Branson's convention center.

Much like Houston and other cities became hubs for evacuees during Hurricane Katrina, the Ozarks is a location on call for victims of an earthquake on the New Madrid fault. Several agencies partnered together to role play as a shelter and a care site for some minor medical needs. Representatives from the State Emergency Management Agency were on hand to make sure the dry run went according to plan.

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Article by:   Randy Boswell - Windsor Star

A team of U.S. scientists has solved a longstanding mystery surrounding the cause of a rare and massive series of earthquakes that shook much of central North America nearly 200 years ago and -- in a remarkable confluence of geology and history -- helped thwart an American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812.

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Article by:  Fred Rasmussen - Baltimore Sun

 

The state has felt its share of quakes, particularly during the 1880s

 

It's the cliche reaction voiced by those who have just experienced an earthquake, and it seems to be a staple of earthquake reporting. "It sounded like a train or a heavy truck going by the house," witnesses explain, even though they might live miles from the nearest railroad line or highway, and this reaction is dutifully regurgitated in newspaper and TV accounts. It's only when the china starts tinkling, the chandelier starts to sway a bit, the bed and windows vibrate that "survivors" really get nervous and become a little more colorfully creative about the "Big One" with reporters.

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Article by:  Heidi Koontz - USGS

 

A team of scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey will be conducting a series of seismic profiling tests near the New Madrid Fault during the first part of June. Using the "Thumper" truck, researchers with the USGS and University of Texas hope to gather new insight into another region south of the New Madrid Fault zone that likely experienced large earthquakes 5000 to 7000 years ago.

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