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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.333333015441895px">colleagues</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">,<br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">Please
consider submitting an abstract to the special session<b> </b></span><span class="gmail-s2"><b>Intraplate Earthquakes:
Central and Eastern North America and Worldwide</b></span><span class="gmail-s2"> at the 2017 SSA Annual
Meeting to be held April 18-20 in Denver.  </span></font></p><p class="gmail-p1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s2">The <b>abstract submission deadline is Jan 11, 2017.  </b></span></font><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conference website:<b> </b></span><a href="http://meetings.seismosoc.org" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://meetings.seismosoc.org</a></p>

<p class="gmail-p1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s2">We are
looking forward to </span><span class="gmail-s1">stimulating and insightful discussions about intraplate
seismicity and deformation and special contributions from our invited
presenters:  Berk Biryol, Eric Calais, Bill Holt and Rob Williams.</span></font></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Looking forward to seeing you there,</span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lillian,
Chris, Will</span></p>

<p class="gmail-p3"><span class="gmail-s1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Session chairs:</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p3"><span class="gmail-s1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lillian
Soto-Cordero <span class="gmail-s3"><i><a href="mailto:lis213@lehigh.edu">lis213@lehigh.edu</a> </i></span></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p3"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Christine
Powell </span><a href="mailto:capowell@memphis.edu" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s3"><i>capowell@memphis.edu</i></span></a></p><p class="gmail-p3"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Will
Levandowski </span><a href="mailto:wlevandowski@usgs.gov" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s3"><i>wlevandowski@usgs.gov</i></span></a></p>

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<p class="gmail-p3"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s4"><b>Session
description</b>: </span><span class="gmail-s1">Low
strain rates and long recurrence intervals pose particular challenges to our
understanding of the characteristics of and mechanisms responsible for
seismicity in plate interiors.  </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Nevertheless, continued investigation of intraplate earthquakes
is needed to mitigate the damage they will produce to heavily populated areas
and to ill-prepared infrastructure.  </span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This special session seeks to span the
spectrum of studies on intraplate seismicity: its spatial and/or
temporal distribution, scaling relationships, the role of crustal and/or upper
mantle structures and dynamics, and seismic hazard implications. We invite
contributions from new results derived from the use of EarthScope Transportable
Array data and from studies worldwide.</span></p>

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