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Exploring the Structure and Evolution of the North American Continent

The EarthScope scientific community is conducting multidisciplinary research across the Earth sciences utilizing freely available data from instruments that measure motions of the Earth's surface and record seismic waves, and from a drill hole that recovered rock samples from depths at which earthquakes originate.


Solicitation for the next EarthScope National Office

Steering Committee Nominations

Thematic Working Groups

Network Station Map

Click this map find and access data from the thousands of EarthScope scientific instruments located through the contiguous United States and Alaska
New Madrid Seismicity
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29 Jul 2010 - Did erosion resulting from climate change cause the New Madrid earthquakes?

Nature Article
Nature News & Views
Purdue Press Release
MSNBC Article in the News
SAFOD Clay Nanocoatings
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28 Jun 2010 - Clay nanocoatings and fault creep at SAFOD

Scientific American 60s-Science Podcast
UMich Press Release
Geology paper
SAFOD News
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1 Jun 2010 - Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault Zone in 1 June EOS

EOS article on SAFOD
New Phase III Core Atlas v. 4 [14.1MB]
First EarthScope Institute
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25 May 2010 - EarthScope Institute on the Spectum of Fault Slip Behaviors, Oct. 11-14, 2010, Portland, Oregon

Workshop Information
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EarthScope Partners