Links
National Earthquake Information Center
earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
Find out how scientists keep track of destructive earthquakes around the world at this website from the United States Geological Survey.
Mid-America Earthquake Center
mae.ce.uiuc.edu/index.html
Learn how to make your own earthquake simulation and find more educational tools at this website from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Virtual Times: The New Madrid Earthquake
hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/
Read firsthand accounts of the 1811 and 1812 earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri at this website.
Books
New Madrid Earthquake: Geography and Geology of the Southeast Missouri Lowlands
by Arthur Clay Magill. University Press of the Pacific, 2001.
On Shaky Ground: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
by Norma Hayes Bagnall. University of Missouri Press, 1996.
Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know) About Earthquakes
by Susan Hough. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape
by Edward A. Keller. Prentice Hall, 2002.
Articles
"New Madrid Seismic Zone May Be Cold And Dying, New Evidence Shows"
ScienceDaily, December 29, 2006.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061211221056.htm
"Scientists: Quake Could Devastate America's Heartland"
by Marsha Walton. CNN, April 18, 2006.
edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/18/new.madrid/
"How to Live Dangerously"
by George J. Church, Dan Cray, Edward W. Desomon, and J. Madeleine Nash. Time, January 30, 1995.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982409,00.html
"Middle America's Fault"
Time, November 19, 1979.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948796,00.html
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