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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">Please post these this
Conference announcements to the Listserver. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red">ADVANCING NEW <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">MADRID</st1:place></st1:State> REGION
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red">TIME-HISTORY DETERMINATION</SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red">
</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">A Shlemon Specialty Conference<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Memphis, TN, June 3 – 5, 2009<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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</SPAN>The Conference concerns the most recent research and the various methods
to develop and use intraplate earthquake time histories, particularly in the
<st1:place w:st="on">Central U.S.</st1:place><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The conference hopes to bring together
researchers, design practitioners, government-agency specialists, and large
facilities’ design managers to raise the state of practice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>Contributed posters or
presentations are encouraged. Acceptable topics include Central US Time
History assessment or use, and Time Histories calculated
for particular <st1:place w:st="on">Central US</st1:place> sites.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The meeting
schedule will be adjusted for contributed </SPAN>presentations and posters<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The objective of
the conference is to raise the state of practice and extend the confident use of
time histories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Noted researchers
(as invited speakers) and those who create and/or use time histories (as
presenters) will discuss elements and methodologies for determining and using
time histories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The conference will
also be concerned with the precision and accuracy of the methodologies and what
added information would lead to the greatest reduction in uncertainty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Authors are encouraged to present time
histories for different <st1:place w:st="on">Central U.S.</st1:place> regional
locations or cities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A compact disc
may be created of the proceedings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Intraplate earthquake time histories are a controversial topic,
particularly compared to western <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> evaluations (a plate margin with
many more applicable events and recordings).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New Madrid Seismic Zone’s and other
sources’ intraplate seismicity, attenuation, spectra, and local site conditions
pose difficult issues concerning unique Central U.S. properties, methodologies,
and their accuracies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an
extremely important topic as the Bicentennial approaches for the Great New
Madrid Series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Memphis</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>’ <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Center for
Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)</SPAN> <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">are strongly
supporting the conference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Several
different practice areas play important roles in the development of time
histories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These areas range from
local site investigations and hazard studies to regional studies of
paleoliquefaction, faulting, tectonic movement and stress fields, velocity
models and areas of engineering seismology.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>The design community depends upon
proper time histories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The noted
intraplate time-history issues impact the built environment of (nuclear,
traditional, and advanced design) power plants, transportation and utility
infrastructure, and business development and continuity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are also the broader implications
for world-wide intraplate regions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
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T</SPAN>he key presenters are: </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">Gail Atkinson</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO"> (</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">University of Western Ontario</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">),
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Characteristics of ground motions in inactive
regions and associated constraints on time history methods;
<STRONG>Martitia Tuttle</STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(USGS, Memphis, TN)</SPAN></STRONG><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">,</B> </SPAN>Geological Record of Ancient
Earthquakes in the Central US<SPAN style="COLOR: black">; </SPAN><B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">Rob Williams</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">
(USGS, Golden, CO), </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Shear-wave
velocity structure in the Central US</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">;
<B>Dominic Assimaki</B> (Georgia Tech), </SPAN>Nonlinear site response in
ground motion predictions<SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">; <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jack Baker</B> (Stanford University),
Active Region Time History Selection/Generation Approaches; <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Chris Cramer</B> (</SPAN>CERI,
University of Memphis<SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">), Central
& Eastern US Time History Selection/Generation Approaches; and, <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Reginald DesRoches</B> (Georgia Tech),
Engineering Applications and Issues for the Central US. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Please make your plans to attend and to provide an abstract for a poster
or presentation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Abstracts for
presentations or posters are invited by May 11, 2009.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The cost of the Shlemon Specialty
Conference and the hotel are very reasonable for attendees relative to other
meetings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Registration,
abstract submission and preliminary program information are available at <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: red">www.aegweb.org</SPAN></B>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> A flyer/registration form is attached.
</SPAN>If you have any questions, please contact Julie Keaton
(aegjuliek@aol.com), Oliver Boyd (olboyd@usgs.gov) or Greg Hempen (<A
href="mailto:Greg_Hempen@urscorp.com"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Greg_Hempen@urscorp.com</SPAN></A>).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Submitted by Greg Hempen, PhD, PE, RG
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