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Collaborative Research: Investigating Seimogenesis and Faults in Eastern North America Usi — NSF Award to University of California

Earthquakes are known to occur at plate boundaries, yet these natural hazards can also occur within stable continental regions beyond the plate boundary, such as in eastern North America. The hazard and risk posed by earthquakes in eastern North America is great because the region includes half of the top ten most popu

Award titleCollaborative Research: Investigating Seimogenesis and Faults in Eastern North America Usi
Award ID2525871
AwardeeUniversity of California-Berkeley
CityBERKELEY
StateCA
Amount obligated$139,058
Principal investigatorWeiqiang Zhu
ProgramSPSE-Study of Physics of Earth
Start date09/01/2025
AbstractEarthquakes are known to occur at plate boundaries, yet these natural hazards can also occur within stable continental regions beyond the plate boundary, such as in eastern North America. The hazard and risk posed by earthquakes in eastern North America is great because the region includes half of the top ten most populous metropolitan areas in the United States and generates 25% of its GDP. Though earthquakes are rare in the region, the recent April 2024 Mw4.8 earthquake in New Jersey highlight
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