Intraplate Earthquakes

Pradeep Talwani is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of South Carolina. He has over thirty years' experience researching intraplate earthquakes, particularly in the Eastern US and Canada, and is a leading authority on the largest intraplate earthquake to strike the Eastern US in recorded history: the 1886 event at Charleston, South Carolina. Professor Talwani served as Director of the South Carolina Seismic Network from 1990 until 2009, when he retired, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

List of contributors; 1. Introduction Pradeep Talwani; 2. Intraplate earthquakes in Australia Dan Clark, Andrew McPherson and T. Allen; 3. Intraplate seismicity in Brazil Marcelo Assumpção, Joaquim Ferreira, Lucas Barros, Hilario Bezzera, George Sand França, José Roberto Barbosa, Eduardo Menezes, Luís Carlos Ribotta, Marlon Pirchiner, Aderson do Nascimento and João Carlos Dourado; 4. Earthquakes and geological structures of the St Lawrence Rift System Maurice Lamontagne and Giorgio Ranalli; 5. Intraplate earthquakes in North China Mian Liu, Hui Wang, Jiyang Ye and Cheng Jia; 6. Seismogenesis of earthquakes occurring in the ancient rift basin of Kachchh, Western India B. K. Rastogi, Prantik Mandal and S. K. Biswas; 7. The New Madrid seismic zone of the Central United States Roy Van Arsdale; 8. The impact of earthquake activity in Western Europe from the historical and architectural heritage records Thierry Camelbeeck, Pierre Alexandre, Alain Sabbe, Elisabeth Knuts, David Garcia Moreno and Thomas Lecocq; 9. Intraplate earthquakes induced by reactivation of buried ancient rift system along the eastern margin of the Japan Sea Aitaro Kato; 10. Deep controls on intraplate basin inversion Sören B. Nielsen, Randell Stephenson and Christian Schiffer; 11. Unified model for intraplate earthquakes Pradeep Talwani; 12. Intraplate seismic hazard: evidence for distributed strain and implications for seismic hazard Susan E. Hough; 13. Conclusions Pradeep Talwani; Index.