Synopsis
The greatest sequence of earthquakes in the history of the lower 48 states took place in 1811-12 along the Mississippi River between Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. These unprecedented and unsurpassed cataclysms left more than 5,000 square miles of permanently disturbed earth manifesting thousands of faults, fissures, landslides, sand boils, and other morphoseismic landforms. This book is a set of self-guided tours of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, complete with maps, detailed road logs, photographs, and a guide to the best restaurantes and local cuisine. See for yourself. take a day. Spend a weekend. Take an earthquake vacation. Visit the most active fault zone in Mid-America. Drive down "Earthquake Alley." Fall into an earthquake crevasse. Walk on a sand boil. Stand in an explosion crater. Fish an earthquake lake. Fina a lost city. View where the MIssissippi River ran backwards. Climb a seismic slump. See the world's largest seismic sand boil. Talk to a witness tree. Explore historic New Madrid. Written with geologic accuracy and rigor, it is an ideal guide for geology classes, yet it is also written for amateurs and the public at large. The New Madrid Seismic Zone is the largest outdoor earthquake laboratory in the world, and, perhaps, the most famous. This book provides education, entertainment, and enjoyment for everyone.
About the Author
Dr. David Stewart is a seismologist, hydrologist, author, and lecturer and is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on the New Madrid fault zone of the central U.S. He is a former engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey in Southern California, a former instructor at the Emergency Management Institute (FEMA) in Emmitsburg, MD, a former Director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), and former professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapen Hill, and Southeast Missouri State University, where he was the Director of the Center for Earthquake Studies. He served from 1990-93 on the editorial board of Earthquake Spectra, internatiional journal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). He is author or coauthor of more than a dozen books and over 200 published articles, some of which have been translated into more than ten languages. His brochure, "Earthquake Guide to Home and Office," has distributed more than a million copies. He is author of the book, "Damages & Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes," published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which is used by National Guard units, Red Cross chapters, insurance companies, hosipitals, state and county emergency management agencies as a basos for earthquake planning in the Midwest. He has been quoted in many newspapers and magazines throughout the world and has been on television in 44 countries.
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