35 Recent advances in our understanding of the New Madrid seismic zone

Thorough understanding of the New Madrid seismic zone will require integration of observations relating to surface features, the crust and the upper mantle. All contributions are welcomed.

Wednesday, 11 March 2026
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RCC, 104

Participants

• Chair Christine Powell
• Chair Charles Langston
• Chair Randy Cox

Presentations

• 8:30 AM
  Shallow Seismic and Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of Faults Associated with the Daytona Beach Sand Blows in Eastern Arkansas
  James Harris, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
  411505 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  Quaternary Faulting in the Reelfoot Rift of the Northern Mississippi Embayment
  Roy Van Arsdale, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
  411565 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  Kinematics of Late Quaternary Faulting Along the Eastern Reelfoot Rift Margin Revealed by Electric Resistivity Tomography (ERT)
  Ipsita Mitra, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and Randel Cox, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and M. Loke, Geotomo Software, Minden Heights, Penang and Kapil Karki, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and Sahidul Islam, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and Kaushik Sarker, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and Chris Cramer, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Thomas Brackman, Near Surface Geophysics Innovations, Bowling Green, KY
  411594 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  Temporal Seismicity and Moment Release on Faults of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
  Charles Langston, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Christine Powell, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
  411785 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  What Are Waveform Cross Correlations Telling Us About Earthquakes? A View From South Carolina
  Steven Jaume, College of Charleston, CHARLESTON, South Carolina
  411719 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  Northern Alabama Earthquake Ring
  Randel Cox, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
  411607 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  Advances in Strain Resolution of the New Madrid Seismic Zone using Enhanced GNSS and OPERA InSAR Time Series Data
  Hadi Heydarizadeh Shali, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Robert Smalley, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Demian Gomez, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Eric Kendrick, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  411653 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  Stress and Fault Slip Potential Maps of the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Surrounding Central United States
  Will Levandowski, Chapel Hill, NC and Yixin Zhang, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Christine Powell, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Seth Carpenter, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  411752 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  Mantle-to-surface contributions to heterogeneous stress fields in the Central and Eastern US
  Arushi Saxena, University of California, Davis , Davis, CA and M. Beatrice Magnani, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and Eunseo Choi, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
  411746 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  The New Madrid Seismic Zone - No Longer an Enigma
  Christine Powell, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
  411679 (Technical Sessions)