This tip sheet highlights presentations at the upcoming international meeting of SSA, which is an international scientific society devoted to the advancement of seismology and its applications in understanding and mitigating earthquake hazards and in imaging the structure of the Earth.

This December marks the bicentennial of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, which are the biggest earthquakes known to have occurred in the central U.S.

Researchers said on Wednesday that the risk of earthquakes in the US Midwest may be more widespread than geologists had previously thought.

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The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows.