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Call for Papers/Posters for the Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazard Summit III

Date: 09/08/2014

On behalf of Bill Lund, Utah Geological Survey:
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE SEISMIC HAZARDS SUMMIT III UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND WESTERN STATES SEISMIC POLICY COUNCIL

January 12 – 17, 2015
Utah Department of Natural Resources Building, Auditorium Salt Lake City, Utah 

The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) and the Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC), in conjunction with the Utah Division of Emergency Management, the Utah Professional Geologists Licensing Board, the Utah Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Licensing Board, the United States Geological Survey, the Intermountain Section of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, and the University of Utah Seismograph Stations will convene a Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit III (BRPSHSIII) to bring together geologists, seismologists, geodesists, engineers, emergency managers, and policy makers to present and discuss the latest earthquake-hazards research, and to evaluate research implications for hazard reduction and public policy in the Basin and Range Province.

Major Basin and Range Province seismic-hazard topics to be explored at BRPSHSIII by more than 30 invited experts will include:

• Perspectives and User Needs

• Mmax Issues in the Basin and Range Province

• Ground Motions from Normal-Faulting Earthquakes

• Fault Segmentation and Rupture Patterns in the Basin and Range Province

• Earthquake Engineering and Risk Mitigation

• Emergency Management and Public Policy

• Using Geodesy to Characterize Seismic Hazard in the Basin and Range Province

A one-day pre-meeting short course and post-meeting field trip are planned:

• Short Course – Characterizing Hazardous Faults—Techniques, Data Needs, and Analysis

• Field Trip – Salt Lake City’s Earthquake Threat and What Is Being Done About It

More information: http://geology.utah.gov/ghp/workgroups/brpshs.htm