The New Madrid Chapter of EERI is developing the New Madrid Earthquake Scenario (NMES) with the aid of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and many other professional organizations. The purpose of the NMES is to provide estimates of governmental, social, business, and economic impacts of one or more New Madrid seismic zone earthquakes. The particular earthquake scenario chosen and the needed scenario products will be determined by workgroups, which will include, or may be subgroupings of, the following: geoscience and geotechnical engineering; architecture and structural engineering; federal, state, and local government; response and recovery; utilities and lifelines; business continuity; finance and insurance; and societal impacts and personal economic loss. After reviewing the documents below, please consider participating. For more information, contact Dr. Greg Hempen.
Newsletters
- July 2010 (PDF)
- October 2010 (PDF)
Scenario Documents
- NMES Overview (30kb Word doc)
- NMES Narrative for CUSE (36kb Word doc)
- NMES Vision-Mission-Plan (32kb Word doc)
- Seismic Symposium flyer (28kb Word doc)
Presentations given at the April 20, 2007 Workshop
- New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Workshop (48kb PDF)
- The Central US Earthquake Threat (410kb PDF)
- Seismic Risk for Structures (9.5Mb PDF)
- Earthquake Scenario Related Projects/Exercises in Central U.S. (126kb PDF)
- Vision for the New Madrid Earthquake Scenario (30kb PDF)
- Seattle Fault Scenario (511kb PDF)
- HAZUS Modeling for the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Scenario: Lessons Learned & Suggestions for a New Madrid Earthquake Scenario (697kb PDF)
- New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Organization (14kb PDF)
Past Events
An Advanced-Practice Specialty Conference on Advancing New Madrid Region Time-History Determination took place in Memphis, TN from June 3 – June 5, 2009.
