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Science 4 March 1983:
Vol. 219. no. 4588, pp. 1063 - 1065
DOI: 10.1126/science.219.4588.1063
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The Giles County, Virginia, Seismic Zone

G. A. BOLLINGER 1 and RUSSELL L. WHEELER 2

1 Seismological Observatory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061, and U.S. Geological Survey, Blacksburg
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225

A well-defined seismic zone recently detected in Virginia has an orientation that is not related to the surrounding geologic structures. The orientation of the zone appears to be related to features below the Appalachian overthrust belt. A damaging earthquake that is important in evaluating seismic hazard in the southeastern United States may have occurred in the zone in 1897.

Submitted on June 28, 1982
Revised on September 10, 1982


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