Forum Shakes Out Soil Map Ground Survey to Aid Planning for Quakes

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Next year, local officials will have a new tool to plan emergency responses to an earthquake in the Evansville area.

The U.S. Geological Survey has been working with officials and university researchers in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois to survey the soils in the Evansville area and create a series of earthquake hazard maps.

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Forum Shakes Out Soil Map Ground Survey to Aid Planning for Quakes

Evansville was targeted because of its location in both the Wabash Seismic Zone and the area that would feel a...

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