Study details evidence for past large earthquakes in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 11:22
in Earth & Climate
The Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), a zone of small earthquakes stretching from northeastern Alabama to southwestern Virginia, may have generated earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater within the last 25,000 years, according to a study published June 27 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.