Internet Links - Geology 100 Topic #20 Are We Ready for "The Big One?" (Earthquakes III)

Earthquake Prediction

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/prediction.html

This site lists USGS many scientific articles on earthquake prediction, inlcuding the the Parkfield
Prediction Experiment in California.

Earthquakes In The Midwestern and Eastern United States??!!

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/area.html

Brief descriptions of earthquakes from the 1600's to today that have caused notable damage in the Midwestern and Eastern United States. It is located within the UPSeis web site (run by the Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Technological University), which is a program created to teach young people (and not-so-young people) more about the planet we live on and how it works.

Responses to Iben Browning's Prediction of a 1990 New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquake

http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/to_order.html

This site gives information on how to order a USGS publication (USGS Circular 1083 by Spence, 1993), which deals with the USGS response to Iben Browning's prediction that a major earthquake would strike the region of New Madrid, Missouri, on about December 3, 1990. Although nearly all seismologists rejected Browning's prediction, it was so well publicized that public agitation rose to serious levels. This report tells how this earthquake prediction became credible to many members of the media, emergency preparedness personnel, and the general public. Appendixes to the report include many press clippings, some of Browning's work, and other material pertaining to this episode.


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