Data Set S1 for "Coseismic Sackungen in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, USA"
November 13, 2018
The New Madrid Seismic Zone presents significant seismic hazard to the central and eastern United States. We mapped newly-identified coseismic ridge-spreading features, or sackungen, in the bluffs east of the Mississippi River in western Tennessee. We use this mapping dataset in an accompanying manuscript to show that sackungen form during earthquakes on the Reelfoot fault and may fail in preferred orientations. Ultimately, these data can be used to infer fault source and mechanism and improve the paleoseismic record used in hazard models.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Title | Data Set S1 for "Coseismic Sackungen in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, USA" |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9RFHA23 |
| Authors | Jaime E. Delano, Ryan D Gold, Richard Briggs, Randall W Jibson |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Earthquake Hazards Program |
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