A comparison of the seismicity of three regions of the Eastern U.S.
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 69 (3) , 757-772
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0690030757
Abstract
Frequency-intensity data from the Southeastern U.S., Central Mississippi Valley, and Southern New England are compared. They are all quite parallel to one another and consistent with a slope of about 0.57. There is no evidence for the existence of upper bounds to maximum epicentral intensity in these data sets. Linear extrapolation of the frequency-intensity data to intensities of X leads to expected probabilities for the occurrence of large earthquakes. The largest events which have occurred in these three regions are consistent with these probabilities.Keywords
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