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- Title
- St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project--A Progress Report-November 2008.
- File
- PB2010101528.pdf
- Author(s)
- Karadeniz, D.; Rogers, J. D.; Williams, R. A.; Cramer, C. H.; Bauer, R. A.
- Source
- January 2009, 17 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- USGS-OFR-2009-1059
- Abstract
- The SLAEHMP is a key part of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, which seeks to reduce the Nations risk from earthquake hazards; other metropolitan areas that are a part of this national program include Seattle, Wash., Evansville, Ind., Memphis, Tenn., Reno, Nev., and the Wasatch Front, Utah urban corridor. The project addresses earthquake hazards throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area, a densely populated urban zone, which is split between Missouri and Illinois. The region has experienced strong ground shaking as a result of pre-historic and contemporary seismicity associated with the major neighboring seismic source areas, including the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (WVSZ) and New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). The goal of the St. Louis project is to produce practical hazards maps and an internet-accessible database that can be used by those in the geosciences, design communities, and city and county planning agencies and would allow these groups to more accurately plan for events of this nature.
- Keywords
- St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project (SLAEHMP); Emergency response; Internet accessible database; Linear response analysis; Forecasting; Foundations (Structures); Seismic monitoring; Liquefaction; United States Geological Survey (USGS); Hazard maps; Computer codes; Maps; Earthquakes