16/01/2012
New Evansville Earthquake Hazards Maps will be unveiled to civic leaders and the public next month.
The area is at risk from the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones, said Christine Martin, director of the Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistant Community Corporation, which will host the map presentations.
She said the maps can be used by businesses, city planners, utilities and emergency managers to better prepare for future earthquakes and may also interest property owners and the general public.
The mapping project was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and was developed with help from sources including Purdue University and The Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis, as well as the U.S., Indiana and Kentucky geological surveys.
Oliver Boyd, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said the maps were developed based on two scenarios: a magnitude 7.7 earthquake from the New Madrid fault and a magnitude 6.8 earthquake from the Wabash Valley fault.
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