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English: Seismicity map of earthquakes in the U.S. State of Oklahoma since 1973 known to have greater than or equal to 3.0 magnitude on the moment magnitude scale. Date 6 July 2016
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.
The Oklahoma earthquake swarms are an ongoing series of human activity-induced earthquakes affecting central Oklahoma, southern Kansas, northern Texas since 2009. [6] [7] [8] Beginning in 2009, the frequency of earthquakes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma rapidly increased from an average of fewer than two 3.0+ magnitude earthquakes per year since 1978 [9] to hundreds each year in the 2014–17 ...
Seismotectonics is the study of the relationship between the earthquakes, active tectonics and individual faults of a region. It seeks to understand which faults are responsible for seismic activity in an area by analysing a combination of regional tectonics, recent instrumentally recorded events, accounts of historical earthquakes and geomorphological evidence.
Seismic hazard and seismicity map for Oklahoma and vicinity for the year 2017 – incorporates hazard from induced seismicity 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model in Oklahoma from the United States Geological Survey – does not incorporate hazard from induced seismicity
Seismicity is a measure encompassing earthquake occurrences, mechanisms, and magnitude at a given geographical location. [1] As such, it summarizes a region's seismic activity. The term was coined by Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter in 1941.
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.
Seismology (/ s aɪ z ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i, s aɪ s-/; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies.