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82 relations: Aftershock, Alabama, Arkansas, Aulacogen, Blytheville, Arkansas, Boston, Cairo Rail Bridge, Cairo, Illinois, Caruthersville, Missouri, Charleston, Missouri, Christmas, Continental drift, Crowley's Ridge, Dale, Illinois, Dendrochronology, Dyersburg, Tennessee, Earthquake, Earthquake prediction, Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, Era (geology), Evansville, Indiana, Fault (geology), Federal Emergency Management Agency, Gadsden, Alabama, Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm, Hayti, Missouri, Henderson, Kentucky, Iben Browning, Illinois, Indiana, Infrastructure, Intraplate earthquake, Kentucky, Kentucky Bend, Marianna Fault, Marianna, Arkansas, Marked Tree, Arkansas, Meizoseismal area, Memphis, Tennessee, Midwestern United States, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, Mount Carmel, Illinois, Nature (journal), Neoproterozoic, New Madrid Seismic Zone, New Madrid, Missouri, Northwestern University, Oklahoma, ..., Plate tectonics, Purdue University, Reelfoot Lake, Rift, Rodinia, San Andreas Fault, Sand boil, Science (journal), Science Daily, Seiche, Seismic zone, Seismicity, Soil liquefaction, Southern United States, St. Louis, Supercontinent, Taxodium distichum, Tennessee, Transport, United States Geological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Missouri, Virginia Tech, Wabash Valley Seismic Zone, Water purification, West Salem, Illinois, West Tennessee, 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes, 1968 Illinois earthquake, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, 2008 Illinois earthquake. Expand index (32 more) »
Aftershock
An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock.
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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.
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Aulacogen
An aulacogen is a failed arm of a triple junction.
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Blytheville, Arkansas
Blytheville is the largest city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Cairo Rail Bridge
Cairo Rail Bridge is the name of two bridges crossing the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois.
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Cairo, Illinois
Cairo is the southernmost city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the county seat of Alexander County.
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Caruthersville, Missouri
Caruthersville is a city in and the county seat of Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States, located along the Mississippi River in the Bootheel region of the state's far southeast.
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Charleston, Missouri
Charleston is a city in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Continental drift
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other, thus appearing to "drift" across the ocean bed.
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Crowley's Ridge
Crowley's Ridge (also Crowleys Ridge) is an unusual geological formation that rises 250 to above the alluvial plain of the Mississippi embayment in a line from southeastern Missouri to the Mississippi River near Helena, Arkansas.
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Dale, Illinois
Dale is an unincorporated community which is located in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States.
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Dendrochronology
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.
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Dyersburg, Tennessee
Dyersburg is a city and the county seat of Dyer County, Tennessee, in the United States.
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Earthquake prediction
Earthquake prediction is a branch of the science of seismology concerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of future earthquakes within stated limits, and particularly "the determination of parameters for the next strong earthquake to occur in a region.
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Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone
The Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), also known as the East Tennessee Seismic Zone and the Southern Appalachian Seismic Zone, is a geographic band stretching from northeastern Alabama to southwestern Virginia that is subject to frequent small earthquakes.
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Era (geology)
A geologic era is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an eon into smaller units of time.
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Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.
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Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden is a city in and the county seat of Etowah County in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm
The Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm occurred in central Arkansas beginning in August 2010.
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Hayti, Missouri
Hayti (pronounced "HAY-tie") is a city in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.
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Henderson, Kentucky
Henderson is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River in Henderson County in western Kentucky in the United States.
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Iben Browning
Iben Browning (January 9, 1918 – July 18, 1991) was an American business consultant, author, and "self-proclaimed climatologist." He is most notable for having made various failed predictions of disasters involving climate, volcanoes, earthquakes, and government collapse.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Indiana
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.
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Intraplate earthquake
The term intraplate earthquake refers to a variety of earthquake that occurs within the interior of a tectonic plate; this stands in contrast to an interplate earthquake, which occurs at the boundary of a tectonic plate.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.
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Kentucky Bend
The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend or Bessie Bend, is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri.
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Marianna Fault
The Marianna Fault is a fault located in the Crowley's Ridge area near Marianna, Northeastern Arkansas.
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Marianna, Arkansas
Marianna is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Arkansas, United States.
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Marked Tree, Arkansas
Marked Tree is a city in Poinsett County, Arkansas United States, along the St. Francis River, at the mouth of the Little River.
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Meizoseismal area
The meizoseismal area in an earthquake is the area of maximum damage.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.
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Mount Carmel, Illinois
Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from.
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New Madrid Seismic Zone
The New Madrid Seismic Zone, sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the southern and midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
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New Madrid, Missouri
New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.
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Reelfoot Lake
Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of U.S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion counties.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Rodinia
Rodinia (from the Russian родить, rodít, meaning "to beget, to give birth", or родина, ródina, meaning "motherland, birthplace") is a Neoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled 1.3–0.9 billion years ago and broke up 750–633 million years ago.
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San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California.
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Sand boil
Sand boils or sand volcanoes occur when water under pressure wells up through a bed of sand.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science Daily
Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
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Seiche
A seiche is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water.
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Seismic zone
In seismology, a seismic zone is an area of seismicity potentially sharing a common cause.
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Seismicity
Seismicity is a measure which encompasses earthquake occurrences, mechanisms, and magnitude at a given geographical location.
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Soil liquefaction
Soil liquefaction describes a phenomenon whereby a saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress, usually earthquake shaking or other sudden change in stress condition, causing it to behave like a liquid.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Supercontinent
In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.
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Taxodium distichum
Taxodium distichum (bald cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae that grows on saturated and seasonally inundated soils in the lowlands of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States.
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Tennessee
Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.
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Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech, and traditionally known as VPI since 1896, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in Lugano, Switzerland.
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Wabash Valley Seismic Zone
The Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (also known as the Wabash Valley Fault System or Zone) is a tectonic region located in the Midwest of the United States, centered on the valley of the Lower Wabash River, along the state line between southeastern Illinois and southwestern Indiana.
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Water purification
Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from water.
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West Salem, Illinois
West Salem is a village in Edwards County, Illinois, United States.
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West Tennessee
West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the state of Tennessee.
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1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes
The 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.5–7.9 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day.
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1968 Illinois earthquake
The 1968 Illinois earthquake (a "New Madrid event") was the largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois.
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1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, a major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in Skamania County, in the State of Washington.
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC).
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2008 Illinois earthquake
The 2008 Illinois earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the Midwest state of Illinois.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone
