[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] New continental earthquakes book

[Seth Stein]

New Madrid fans may be interested in a new Geological
Society of America book

Continental Intraplate Earthquakes: Science, Hazard, and Policy Issues
edited by Seth Stein and Stephane Mazzotti

This volume brings together a sampling of research addressing issues
of continental intraplate earthquakes, including a core of papers from
special sessions held at the spring 2004 Joint Assembly of the American
and Canadian Geophysical Unions in Montreal. Papers address the broad
related topics of the science, hazard, and policy issues of large
continental intraplate earthquakes in a worldwide context. One group
of papers addresses aspects of the primary scientific issue: where are
these earthquakes and what causes them? Answering this question is crucial
to determining whether they will continue there or migrate elsewhere. A
second group of papers addresses the challenge of assessing the hazard
posed by intraplate earthquakes. Although it may be a very long time
before the scientific issues are resolved, the progress being made is
helping attempts to estimate the probability, size, and shaking of future
earthquakes, and the uncertainty of the results. A third group of papers
explores the question of how society should mitigate the possible effects
of future large continental intraplate earthquakes. Communities around
the world face the challenge of deciding how to address this rare, but
real, hazard, given the wide range of other societal needs. Continental
intraplate earthquakes will remain a challenge to seismologists,
earthquake engineers, policy makers, and the public for years to come,
but significant progress toward understanding and addressing this
challenge is now being made.

For the table of contents and ordering information, see

http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=9&pID=SPE425

Seth Stein
William Deering Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1850 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-5265 FAX: (847) 491-8060 E-MAIL: seth at earth.northwestern.edu
http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/seth