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Cataloging the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Central U.S., Earthquake Sequence

Susan E. Hough
Published: 01 November 2009
Seismological Research Letters (2009) 80 (6): 1045–1053.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.80.6.1045
... earthquakes ( Table 1 ). These events include a large aftershock on 17 December 1811, which Hough and Martin ( 2002 ) conclude was probably south of the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), and triggered earthquakes in the Louisville, Kentucky, region, on 27 January 1812 and the night of 7 February 1812 ( Hough...
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Magnitude Estimates of Two Large Aftershocks of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid Earthquake

Susan E. Hough, Stacey Martin
Published: 01 December 2002
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2002) 92 (8): 3259–3268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120010226
... of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Copyright © 2002 by the Seismological Society of America 2002 Manuscript received 23 August 2001. The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquake sequence included three well-documented mainshocks that have been analyzed in considerable detail (e.g., Nuttli, 1973...
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Triggered Earthquakes and the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Central United States, Earthquake Sequence

Susan E. Hough
Published: 01 December 2001
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2001) 91 (6): 1574–1581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120000259
...Susan E. Hough Abstract The 1811–1812 New Madrid, central United States, earthquake sequence included at least three events with magnitudes estimated at well above M 7.0. I discuss evidence that the sequence also produced at least three substantial triggered events well outside the New Madrid...
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Evidence for episodic sand-blow activity during the 1811-1812 New Madrid (Missouri) earthquake series

Roger T. Saucier
Journal: Geology
Published: 01 February 1989
Geology (1989) 17 (2): 103–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1989)017<0103:EFESBA>2.3.CO;2
...Roger T. Saucier Abstract Four major earthquakes of the 1811-1812 New Madrid series caused widespread ground disturbance, mostly in the form of sand blows, in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River. Although a recurrence interval of 600-700 yr has been estimated for major shocks, recent...
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Archeoseismology applied to the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 to 1812

Robert B. Herrmann, Shiang-Ho Cheng, Otto W. Nuttli
Published: 01 December 1978
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1978) 68 (6): 1751–1759.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0680061751
...Robert B. Herrmann; Shiang-Ho Cheng; Otto W. Nuttli abstract Recent studies of larger eastern North America earthquakes together with seismicity and focal mechanism studies in the New Madrid seismic zone permit estimates being made of static vertical displacements associated with the 1811 to 1812...
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The repeat time of the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid earthquakes: A geological perspective

Steven G. Wesnousky, Lisa M. Leffler
Published: 01 August 1992
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1992) 82 (4): 1756–1785.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0820041756
...Steven G. Wesnousky; Lisa M. Leffler Abstract The great New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 were accompanied by extensive liquefaction within the meizoseismal zone. We examined tens of kilometers of freshly excavated ditch banks within the southern limb of the New Madrid Seismic Zone...
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Map of the 16 December <span class="search-highlight">1811</span> <span class="search-highlight">New</span> <span class="search-highlight">Madrid</span> <span class="search-highlight">earthquake</span> (NM1) for (a) model 1 and...

Map of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid earthquake (NM1) for (a) model 1 and...

Published: 01 February 2004
Figure 4. Map of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid earthquake (NM1) for (a) model 1 and (b) model 3. The candidate fault rupture segments from Figure 3 are shown as thick black lines. Black circles are sites with MMI assignments; 7.0 ≤ (MMI - site corrections) < 8.0 are plotted as MMI VII
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Comparison of MMI observations for the <span class="search-highlight">1811</span>&#x2F;12&#x2F;16 <span class="search-highlight">New</span> <span class="search-highlight">Madrid</span> <span class="search-highlight">earthquake</span> for...

Comparison of MMI observations for the 1811/12/16 New Madrid earthquake for...

Published: 01 September 2001
Figure 10. Comparison of MMI observations for the 1811/12/16 New Madrid earthquake for an assumed M = 8.0 (symbols) with the median predictions based on the Atkinson and Boore ( 1995 ) ground-motion relations, for hard-rock (dotted line), firm-ground (light solid line), and soft-soil sites
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Ground‐Motion Simulations of 1811–1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States

Leonardo Ramirez‐Guzman, Robert W. Graves, Kim B. Olsen, Oliver S. Boyd, Chris Cramer, Stephen Hartzell, Sidao Ni, Paul Somerville, Robert A. Williams, Jinquan Zhong
Published: 28 July 2015
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2015) 105 (4): 1961–1988.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120140330
...Leonardo Ramirez‐Guzman; Robert W. Graves; Kim B. Olsen; Oliver S. Boyd; Chris Cramer; Stephen Hartzell; Sidao Ni; Paul Somerville; Robert A. Williams; Jinquan Zhong Abstract We performed a suite of numerical simulations based on the 1811–1812 New Madrid seismic zone ( NMSZ ) earthquakes, which...
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Strong Ground Motion Inferred from Liquefaction Caused by the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquakes

Thomas L. Holzer, Thomas E. Noce, Michael J. Bennett
Published: 04 August 2015
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2015) 105 (5): 2589–2603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130258
...Thomas L. Holzer; Thomas E. Noce; Michael J. Bennett Abstract Peak ground accelerations ( PGA s) in the epicentral region of the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Missouri, earthquakes are inferred from liquefaction to have been no greater than ∼0.35 g . PGA is inferred in an 11,380 km 2 area in the Lower...
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Magnitudes and Locations of the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Missouri, and the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquakes

W. H. Bakun, M. G. Hopper
Published: 01 February 2004
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2004) 94 (1): 64–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120020122
...Figure 4. Map of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid earthquake (NM1) for (a) model 1 and (b) model 3. The candidate fault rupture segments from Figure 3 are shown as thick black lines. Black circles are sites with MMI assignments; 7.0 ≤ (MMI - site corrections) < 8.0 are plotted as MMI VII...
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Survey of Historic Buildings Predating the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes and Magnitude Estimation Based on Structural Fragility

Vladimir G. Kochkin, Jay H. Crandell
Published: 01 January 2004
Seismological Research Letters (2004) 75 (1): 22–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.75.1.22
...Vladimir G. Kochkin; Jay H. Crandell © 2004 by the Seismological Society of America 2004 Accurate estimation of the magnitudes of the 1811-1812 earthquakes is an important step in the assessment of earthquake hazard in the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ). Expert opinion on the magnitudes...
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Recorded intensities for past Illinois <span class="search-highlight">earthquakes</span>: (a) <span class="search-highlight">1811</span> <span class="search-highlight">New</span> <span class="search-highlight">Madrid</span> ( H...

Recorded intensities for past Illinois earthquakes: (a) 1811 New Madrid ( H...

Published: 10 February 2016
Figure 3. Recorded intensities for past Illinois earthquakes: (a) 1811 New Madrid ( Hough et al. , 2000 ; Stein and Stein, 2014 ), (b) 1909 Aurora ( Huysken and Fujita, 2013 ), (c) 1968 Illinois ( Gordon et al. , 1970 ), and (d) 1972 M s  4.0 northern Illinois ( Heigold, 1972 ).The color
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Why the New Madrid Earthquakes are M 7–8 and the Charleston Earthquake is ∼ M 7

Chris H. Cramer, Oliver S. Boyd
Published: 28 October 2014
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2014) 104 (6): 2884–2903.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120120257
... attenuation and local soil conditions, magnitude should be the main influence on intensity values at large distances. We apply this concept by comparing the mean MMI at distances of 600–1200 km for each of the four largest New Madrid 1811–1812 earthquakes, the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake...
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The Earthquake Potential of the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Martitia P. Tuttle, Eugene S. Schweig, John D. Sims, Robert H. Lafferty, Lorraine W. Wolf, Marion L. Haynes
Published: 01 August 2002
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2002) 92 (6): 2080–2089.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120010227
...Martitia P. Tuttle; Eugene S. Schweig; John D. Sims; Robert H. Lafferty; Lorraine W. Wolf; Marion L. Haynes Abstract The fault system responsible for New Madrid seismicity has generated temporally clustered very large earthquakes in A.D. 900 ± 100 years and A.D. 1450 ± 150 years as well as in 1811...
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Earthquake signals in tree-ring data from the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for paleoseismicity

Roy B. Van Arsdale, David W. Stahle, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Margaret J. Guccione
Journal: Geology
Published: 01 June 1998
Geology (1998) 26 (6): 515–518.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0515:ESITRD>2.3.CO;2
...Roy B. Van Arsdale; David W. Stahle; Malcolm K. Cleaveland; Margaret J. Guccione Abstract Severe ground shaking and the formation of Reelfoot Lake during the great New Madrid earthquakes of a.d. 1811–1812 had a profound effect on baldcypress trees that still survive in Reelfoot Lake of northwestern...
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Estimating Earthquake Magnitudes from Reported Intensities in the Central and Eastern United States

Oliver S. Boyd, Chris H. Cramer
Published: 15 July 2014
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2014) 104 (4): 1709–1722.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120120352
...Oliver S. Boyd; Chris H. Cramer Abstract A new macroseismic intensity prediction equation is derived for the central and eastern United States and is used to estimate the magnitudes of the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Missouri, and 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquakes. This work improves upon...
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Evidence for Large New Madrid Earthquakes about A.D. 0 and 1050 B.C., Central United States

Martitia P. Tuttle, Lorraine W. Wolf, Mary Evelyn Starr, Pilar Villamor, Robert H. Lafferty, III, Juliet E. Morrow, Robert J. Scott, Jr., Steven L. Forman, Kathleen Hess, Kathleen Tucker, James Dunahue, Marion L. Haynes
Published: 20 March 2019
Seismological Research Letters (2019) 90 (3): 1393–1406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180371
..., and radiometric dating support the timing of the liquefaction events. With the addition of the A.D. 0 and 1050 B.C. events to the New Madrid earthquake chronology (A.D. 1811–1812, A.D. 1450, A.D. 900, A.D. 0, 1050 B.C., and 2350 B.C.), a recurrence time of approximately 1100 yrs is estimated for the period...
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Evidence for Large Prehistoric Earthquakes in the Northern New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central United States

Yong Li, Eugene S. Schweig, Martitia P. Tuttle, Michael A. Ellis
Published: 01 May 1998
Seismological Research Letters (1998) 69 (3): 270–276.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.69.3.270
...Yong Li; Eugene S. Schweig; Martitia P. Tuttle; Michael A. Ellis Abstract We surveyed the area north of New Madrid, Missouri, for prehistoric liquefaction deposits and uncovered two new sites with evidence of pre-1811 earthquakes. At one site, located about 20 km northeast of New Madrid, Missouri...
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Analysis of the seismic origin of landslides: Examples from the New Madrid seismic zone

RANDALL W. JIBSON, DAVID K. KEEFER
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 April 1993
GSA Bulletin (1993) 105 (4): 521–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1993)105<0521:AOTSOO>2.3.CO;2
... landslides analyzed are representative of two groups of land-slides that previous research on the geomorphology and regional distribution of landslides in this region indicates may have been triggered by the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes. Slope-stability models of aseismic conditions show that neither...
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