Evansville Hazard Mapping Project

In tri-state Evansville area of Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois the USGS is partnering with a local working group to produce urban earthquake hazard maps for the community.  

Map of sites in the Wabash Valley seismic zone where liquefaction features (dikes) from prehistoric earthquakes have been documented.

In the Evansville area, the project is being lead by representatives from the State Geologic Surveys of Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, the Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistant Community Corp., the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) emergency managers, CUSEC State Geologists, and the USGS.

Meetings

Initial planning workshop, 6/11/03

• Participant comments
• Photos
  

Filling in the project plan, 9/4/03

Working group meeting, 4/7/04

Advisory Board meeting, 5/13/04

• Membership roster
  
• Follow-up survey results

Advisory Board meeting, 9/15/04

Researchers Tri-State Earthquake Hazards Mapping Group, 11/3/04

Sub-Committee on Database Design

Newspaper articles	7.5' quadrangles comprising the mapping study area.
Project Plan
Participants