[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] Proceedings from workshop on Mmax east of the Rocky Mountains

[Oliver Boyd]

NEW PUBLICATION: 

On September 8-9, 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission co-sponsored a workshop on Mmax east of the Rocky
Mountains. Mmax is the magnitude of the largest earthquake that is thought
to be possible within a specified geographic area. Mmax is an important
variable in seismic-hazard computations.

The minutes of the workshop are now available online as a 308-page USGS
Open-File Report titled "Sizes of the Largest Possible Earthquakes in the
Central and Eastern United States‹Summary of a Workshop, September 8­9,
2008, Golden, Colorado". To download the report, please go to
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1263/ <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1263/> .
The first half of the report is text and the second half is the PowerPoint
slides of the 15 invited speakers. A 30 MB PDF file contains both the text
and the slides. In addition, a directory contains each speaker's slides as
an individual downloadable PowerPoint file.

Before the workshop, a foundation document went to the invitees to provide a
common basis for discussions. That document is the 44-page Open-File Report
"Methods of Mmax Estimation East of the Rocky Mountains". It's available at
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1018/ <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1018/> .
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Rus Wheeler
research geologist
phone: (303) 273-8589
fax: (303) 273-8600
email: wheeler at usgs.gov

paper mail:
Russell L. Wheeler
U.S. Geological Survey
P.O. Box 25046, M.S. 966
Lakewood, CO 80225

physical address, FedEx, UPS:
1711 Illinois St., rm. 442
Golden, CO 80401


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