A new report from the Mid-America Earthquake Center is now available in print and online. This report contains earthquake impact assessments for the CUSEC Member States due to earthquakes caused by the New Madrid Seismic Zone. It reports Phase II work from a major New Madrid Earthquakes Catastrophic Event Planning project funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The report gives damage estimates to the built environment, projected impacts on transportation and utility networks as well as possible social and economic consequences. It supersedes the report, “Impact of Earthquakes on the Central USA,” published in 2008. The analysis employs the best available and most reliable hazard and inventory data that has ever been assembled for the CUSEC Member States.
The work was undertaken by the MAE Center at the University of Illinois in partnership with the Center for Technology, Security and Policy at Virginia Tech University and the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at the George Washington University, with contributions from the Association of CUSEC State Geologists, US Army Corps of Engineers, IEM, FEMA, U.S. Geological Survey, and CUSEC. Bound paper and CD copies are available from Nasiba Alrawi, IT Coordinator, email: nalrawi2@illinois.edu.
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