<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">T63. Intraplate Earthquakes, Seismotectonics, and Geodynamics in Eastern and Central North America</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Greetings all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We are convening a topical session on “</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Intraplate Earthquakes, Seismotectonics, and Geodynamics in Eastern and Central North America” </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-4 Nov. 2015, in Baltimore. We hope to bring together a variety of geoscience and engineering insights and ideas such as those energized by the 2011 Virginia earthquake, new approaches, EarthScope, and GeoPRISMS. The session will include invited keynote talks by Bill Holt (Stony Brook U.), Frank Pazzaglia (Lehigh U.), and Bill Thomas (U. Kentucky and Geol. Survey of Alabama). It is sponsored by four GSA Divisions (Structural Geology and Tectonics, Geophysics, Environmental and Engineering Geology, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology), EarthScope, and the USGS. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">A parallel </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">poster</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> session is planned if enough abstracts are submitted. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We hope you will consider submitting an abstract (deadline 11 August). </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">You may submit two volunteered abstracts for the Annual Meeting if one of these abstracts is a </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">poster</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> (including digital </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">poster</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">) </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">presentation</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">. Please forward this e-mail to anyone who may be interested.</span></p><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Wright Horton (USGS), Chris Powell (CERI, U. Memphis) and Rob Williams (USGS)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">T63. Intraplate Earthquakes, Seismotectonics, and Geodynamics in Eastern and Central North America</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2015/sessions/topical.asp" target="_blank">http: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