Data Set S1 for "Coseismic Sackungen Record Evidence of Strong Shaking and Fault Source in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, USA"

Description

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.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RFHA23
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5babe5a1e4b08583a5cf5442.xml

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  • paleoseismic-record
  • usgs-5babe5a1e4b08583a5cf5442
  • mississippi-river
  • fault-source
  • new-madrid-seismic-zone
  • ghsc
  • reelfoot-fault
  • sackungen
  • geologic-hazards-science-center
  • earthquake-hazard
  • fault-mechanism
  • earthquake-hazards-program
  • ehp
  • tennessee-usa
  • hazard-models
  • coseismic-ridge-spreading-features
  • usgs
  • fault
  • earth-science

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