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Living on an Active Earth: Perspectives on Earthquake Science (2003)
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR)

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and A.L. Moore, A tsunami about 1,000 years ago in Puget Sound, Washington, Science, 258, 1614-1617, 1992; R.E. Karlin and S.E.B. Abella, Paleoearthquakes in the Puget Sound region recorded in sediments from Lake Washington, Science, 258, 1617-1620, 1992; R.L. Schuster, R.L. Logan, and P.T. Pringle, Prehistoric rock avalanches in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, Science, 258, 1620-1621, 1992; G.C. Jacoby, P.L. Williams, and B.M. Buckley, Tree ring correlation between prehistoric landslides and abrupt tectonic events in Seattle, Washington, Science, 258, 1621-1623, 1992.

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R.A. Bennett, B.P. Wernicke, and J.L. Davis, Continuous GPS measurements of contemporary deformation across the northern Basin and Range Province, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 563-566, 1998; W. Thatcher, G.R. Foulger, B.R. Julian, J. Svarc, E. Quilty, and G.W. Bawden, Present-day deformation across the Basin and Range Province, western United States, Science, 283, 1714-1718, 1999.

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R.B. Smith and L. Siegel, Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Oxford University Press, New York, 242 pp., 2000.

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T.C. Hanks and A.C. Johnston, Common features of the excitation and propagation of strong ground motion for North American earthquakes, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 82, 1-23, 1992.

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S.F. Obermeier, P.J. Munson, C.A. Munson, J.R. Martin, A.D. Frankel, T.L. Youd, and E.C. Pond, Liquefaction evidence for strong Holocene earthquake(s) in the Wabash Valley of Indiana-Illinois, Seis. Res. Lett., 63, 321-336, 1992. Although small, nondestructive earthquakes are relatively common in the Wabash River Valley of southeastern Illinois and southern Indiana, no large earthquakes have struck the region in 200 or so years of historical record. Nevertheless, paleoliquefaction features indicative of very large earthquakes have been identified, including clastic dikes ranging up to 2.5 meters in width, are widespread throughout a region of about 200 kilometers by 250 kilometers. The most widespread set of these formed during a large event about 6100 years ago. The fact that the largest dikes cluster within a region about 50 kilometers in diameter suggests that the source of the earthquake was there, near the Illinois-Indiana border with a size of Mw about 7.5. More restricted sets of dikes formed in this same region during an event about 12,000 years ago and in a smaller region within Indiana about 3000 years ago.

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A.J. Crone and K.V. Luza, Style and timing of Holocene surface faulting on the Meers fault, southwestern Oklahoma, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 102, 1-17, 1990.

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A.J. Crone, M. Machette, L. Bradley, and S. Mahan, Late Quaternary Surface Faulting on the Cheraw Fault, Southeastern Colorado, U.S. Geological Survey Map I-2591, Reston, Va., 1997.

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D. Amick and R. Gelinas, The search for evidence of large prehistoric earthquakes along the Atlantic seaboard, Science, 251, 655-658. 1991. Near Charleston, prehistoric sand-blow craters, similar to those that formed in 1886, formed four times in the 5000 years before 1886. Small twigs and bark that fell into these ancient craters soon after they were formed yield radiocarbon ages of about 600, 1250, 3200, and 5150 years. Judging from the size and geographic extent of the craters formed 600 and 1250 years ago, the magnitude of the causative earthquakes was at least Mw 7.5.

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R.T. Marple and P. Tawani, The Woodstock lineament; A possible surface expression of the seismogenic fault of the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake, Seis. Res. Lett.,63, 153-160, 1992.

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C. Powell, G. Bollinger, M. Chapman, M. Sibol, A. Johnston, and R. Wheeler, A seismotectonic model for the 300-kilometer-long eastern Tennessee seismic zone, Science, 264, 686-688, 1994.

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A. Frankel, C. Mueller, T. Barnhard, D. Perkins, E. Leyendecker, N. Dickman, S. Hanson, and M. Hopper, National Seismic-Hazard Maps: Documentation June 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-532, Denver, Colo., 111 pp, 1996.

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