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Meers Fault is a fault in Oklahoma that extends from Kiowa County to Comanche County. It is marked by a 22–26 kilometers (14–16 mi) long conspicuous fault scarp but the fault extends beyond the ends of this scarp. The Meers fault is part of a group of faults that lie between the Anadarko Basin and the Wichita Mountains.
Thrust fault: Active: 2008 Sichuan (M8.0) Lost River Fault: Idaho, United States: Normal: Active: 1983 Borah Peak (M6.9) Lusatian Fault: Germany: Thrust fault: Macquarie Fault Zone >400: South Pacific Ocean: Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults: Active: 1989 Maquarie Isl. (8.2), 2008 Macquarie Island earthquake (M7.1) Mae Chan Fault: 120 ...
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
English: Map of seismicity in Oklahoma and surrounding areas for earthquakes of greater than or equal to magnitude 3.0. Inset maps are color-coded. Data from USGS-ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat). Equidistant conic projection used.
Structures of Kansas showing the Nemaha Uplift/Ridge. The Nemaha Ridge (also called the Nemaha Uplift and the Nemaha Anticline [1]) is located in the Central United States.It is a buried structural zone associated with a granite high in the Pre-Cambrian basement that extends from approximately Omaha, Nebraska to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Humboldt Fault (red) and Midcontinent Rift (green) in Kansas and Nebraska. The Nemaha uplift is a deep fault zone which runs diagonally across east Kansas and extends from just south of Omaha, Nebraska to Oklahoma City. This fault zone directly overlies a granite "high" in the Precambrian basement and is structurally active as the Humboldt Fault.
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The Kansas River at Lawrence, Kansas, aerial view from the north with Lake View Lake (the oxbow lake in the right foreground) and I-70 crossing. The first map showing the Kansas River is French cartographer Guillaume de L'Isle's "Carte de la Louisiane," which was drawn about 1718.