April 18, 2008

Earthquake and seismology experts available at Purdue

Here is a list of earth and atmospheric scientists specializing in earthquakes and seismology:

Larry W. Braile, professor of earth sciences and head of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Braille oversees the seismograph and works with the seismology station at Purdue to record local and worldwide earthquakes. He has done extensive studies of the New Madrid fault, which runs through the Mississippi River Valley. The fault, named for a town in southeastern Missouri, in 1811 and 1812 caused the strongest earthquakes ever in the contiguous United States.

CONTACT: (765) 494-5979 (Office),  braile@purdue.edu

Jennifer Haase, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. Haase is a seismologist and studies geophysics, earthquake seismology and satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere. She has worked on projects for the Indiana Department of Transportation and the U.S. Geological Survey on assessments of seismic hazard in Indiana, with a focus on Evansville. She also has researched California earthquakes at the California Institute of Technology.

CONTACT: (795) 494-8677, jhaase@purdue.edu

A Web site with information about the earthquake and a map of impact by county is available at https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
Quakes/us2008qza6.php

A Web site with historical information about earthquakes in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone is available at https://www.cusec.org/S_zones/Wabash/

Writer: Elizabeth Gardner, (765) 494-2081, ekgardner@purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

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