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Earthquakes

• Recent Earthquakes
  • USGS earthquakes page
  • Latest earthquakes magnitude > 2.5 in US and > 4.5 globally
  • Recent Central US Earthquakes, Interactive Display

• Earthquake Catalog Search
  • USGS NEIC earthquake search
  • New Madrid earthquake catalog search

• Earthquake Source Parameters
  • SLU Moment Tensors

• Significant Local Earthquakes
  • April 18, 2008 Mw=5.3 Southern Illinois
  • August 23, 2011 Mw=5.7 Virginia

• Central U.S. Earthquake History
  • Introduction to New Madrid Earthquakes
  • Nuttli paper on 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes

    The Mississippi Valley Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812:
    Intensities, Ground Motion and Magnitudes - O.W. Nuttli
    B. S. S. A., February 1973

  • Street paper on 1811-1812 sequence of New Madrid earthquakes

    A Contribution to the Documentation of the 1811-1812
    Mississippi Valley Earthquake Sequence - R. Street
    Earthquake Notes, April-June 1982

  • Accounts of 1811-1812 earthquakes by R. Street (updated 2011)
  • Nuttli-Brill catalog of historical earthquakes in the central U. S.

• Earthquake Hazards and Preparedness
  • St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project
  • The Great Central U. S. Shake Out
  • Missouri Seismic Safety Commission

• Earthquake Damage Photos
  • August 31, 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake Photos
  • Macelwane Collection of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Photos
  • Macelwane Collection of the June 7, 1917 San Salvador Earthquake Postcards
  • Macelwane Collection of the Great 1923 Tokyo Earthquake Postcards
  • Macelwane Collection of the 1925 Canadian Earthquake Photos
  • 1933 Long Beach, California Earthquake Photos
  • 1937 Anna, Ohio Earthquake Photos
  • November 9, 1968 Southern Illinois Earthquake
  • Robert B. Herrmann Photo Collection from the 1999 Central Taiwan Earthquake
  • April 18, 2008 Southern Illinois Earthquake

• Outreach and Education
  • HEC-TV Web Cast The science behind earthquakes (interactive program with schools December 13, 2011)
    

• Earthquake Posters
  • USGS Earthquake Summary Posters
  • SLM compilation of photos of the February 22, 2011 Christchurch, NZ earthquake damage 9,461,574 bytes
  • SLU compilation of photos of the March 11, 2011 Tohuku, Japan earthquake damage 135,307,385 bytes
  • SLU compilation of photos of the August 23, 2011 Virginia, USA earthquake damage 4,357,640 bytes
  • SLU compilation of photos of the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake damage
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• Earthquake Instrumentation
  • Earthquake Recording at Saint Louis University
  • Wiechert Instrument History for Station SLM

You can find more information about the Center, seismology, and many other earthquake-related topics by visiting the Center's homepage, or by contacting Dr. Robert Herrmann.