Welcome
from the Director
Welcome to our newly
redesigned website. Our new site covers everything from
basic earthquake safety and mitigation issues, to a calendar of events
and the science behind this region's seismicity. We want to have
a site that is informative and easy to navigate and welcome
any comments that you might have. We are always looking for ways to
improve our site and we welcome your feedback. Thanks for visiting...
Jim
Wilkinson
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Launched in 2006, the mission of the New Madrid Seismic Zone Catastrophic Planning Project is to increase national readiness for a catastrophic earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). This multi-year, multi-agency initiative is the largest planning effort ever undertaken in United States History. Specifically, national readiness will be increased by developing a series of annexes or supplements to existing base plans for response and recovery to a series of major earthquakes in the NMSZ and integrating them into a single document with federal, regional, tribal, state, and local components. Additionally, the mission is to identify any issues that can not be resolved based on current capabilities and to propose recommended courses of action for decision makers involved in this project. The project is expected to culminate in 2011 with a series of major command exercises, coinciding with the 200th Anniversary of the 1811-1812 earthquakes.
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Read more about the New Madrid Catastrophic Planning Project...
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New Report on Impact of Earthquakes in the Central United States
September 2008 - The Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center at the University of Illinois announces the release of its report entitled ‘Impact of Earthquakes on the Central USA’. The report is the one of the products of the largest earthquake consequence assessment project in United States history, the New Madrid Seismic Zone Catastrophic Planning Project. The report contains earthquake impact assessments for the eight CUSEC Member States, and lists damage and other consequences to the built environment as well as social and economic impacts. The earthquake scenarios used represent the New Madrid, the Wabash Valley, and East Tennessee seismic zones. The analysis employs new and more reliable hazard and inventory data that has not been used before.
The project is managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, and the work was undertaken in partnership with the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at the George Washington University, with contributions for the Association of CUSEC State Geologists, IEM, FEMA, US Geological Survey, and CUSEC. The report is available for download at IDEALS. Bound paper and CD copies are available from
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, MAE Center Program Coordinator.
CUSEC Launches new Website
September 2008 - We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest version of the CUSEC website. Our new site has been redesigned from the ground up to better serve our visitors. It has been organized in a way that will offer easy to find information on earthquakes in the central US, earthquake safety, current programs in the central U.S., CUSEC publications, and more. New Features include -
- Fully Searchable Site
- Updated Publications Library
- Easy to Navigate Menu System
- CSS Styling for better compliance across browsers
- Updated information & safety tips
- and Much, Much, More...
Please take a moment to look around the website and we welcome any feedback you may have.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:46 )
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