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Wabash Valley Seismic zone

Wabash Valley Seismic zone. By R odrigo R. Alexa P. Cortez M. Jasmine L. Location Illinois, Southwestern Indiana, Missouri, & Tennessee. North American plates. Evansville, Springfield, St. Louis, M emphis. Divergent. Plates began to actively pull apart in W abash Valley region.

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Wabash Valley Seismic zone

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  1. Wabash Valley Seismic zone By Rodrigo R. Alexa P. Cortez M. Jasmine L.

  2. Location • Illinois, Southwestern Indiana, Missouri, & Tennessee. • North American plates. • Evansville, Springfield, St. Louis, Memphis.

  3. Divergent Plates began to actively pull apart in Wabash Valley region. Plates moving about 1-2 millimeters per year.

  4. Features • Severe earthquakes • Could cause floods • Many cities would be affected.

  5. Major Tectonic Events • 2002- Magnitude 4.6 • Evensville Indiana 2008- Magnitude 504 West salem, Illinois 6 hour aftershock

  6. Residents should be warned and prepared for the after effects. • It is not known when it will strike. • 7.3 earthquake

  7. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11630.aspx • http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2002/usfnbk/ • http://web.archive.org/web/20080422001034/http://cusec.org/S_zones/Wabash/fact+sheet.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Valley_Fault_System

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