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<p>Created page with &quot;{{DISPLAYTITLE:Abbreviations}} ;AD:anno domini (in the year of the Lord) ;AFE:annual frequency of exceedance ;AlC:Akaike information criterion ;ALM:Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (zone of possible paleoseismic features) ;AM:Atlantic Margin ;AHEX:Atlantic Highly Extended Crust (seismotectonic zone) ;ANSS:U.S. Advanced National Seismic System ;ANT:Advanced Nuclear Technology ;APC:Action Plan Committee ;BA:Blytheville arch ;BC:before Christ ;BCFZ:Big Creek fault zone ;BFZ:Bl...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Abbreviations}}<br /> ;AD:anno domini (in the year of the Lord)<br /> ;AFE:annual frequency of exceedance<br /> ;AlC:Akaike information criterion<br /> ;ALM:Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (zone of possible paleoseismic features)<br /> ;AM:Atlantic Margin<br /> ;AHEX:Atlantic Highly Extended Crust (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;ANSS:U.S. Advanced National Seismic System<br /> ;ANT:Advanced Nuclear Technology<br /> ;APC:Action Plan Committee<br /> ;BA:Blytheville arch<br /> ;BC:before Christ<br /> ;BCFZ:Big Creek fault zone<br /> ;BFZ:Blytheville fault zone BL Bootheel lineament<br /> ;BL:Bootheel lineament<br /> ;BMA:Brunswick magnetic anomaly<br /> ;BP:before present<br /> ;BPT:Brownian passage time<br /> ;BTP:Branch Technical Position<br /> ;CAD:computer-aided design<br /> ;CBR:center, body, and range<br /> ;CCFZ:Crittenden County fault zone<br /> ;CDZ:Commerce deformation zone<br /> ;CENA:Central and Eastern North America<br /> ;CERl:Center for Earthquake Research and information<br /> ;CEUS:Central and Eastern United States<br /> ;CFZ:Commerce fault zone<br /> ;CFR:Code of Federal Regulations<br /> ;CGL:Commerce geophysical lineament<br /> ;CGRGC:Cottonwood Grove-Rough Creek graben<br /> ;Cl:confidence interval<br /> ;CNWRA:Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analysis<br /> ;COCORP:Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling<br /> ;COCRUST:Consortium for Crustal Reconnaissance Using Seismic Techniques<br /> ;COL:combined construction and operating license<br /> ;COLA:combined operating license application<br /> ;COMP:composite prior, composite superdomain<br /> ;CON:contemporary(with earthquake occurrence)<br /> ;COV:coefficient of variation<br /> ;CPT:cone penetration test<br /> ;CVSZ:Central Virginia seismic zone<br /> ;D&amp;G:Deweyand Gordon (1984 catalog)<br /> ;DEM:digital elevation model<br /> ;DNFSB:Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board<br /> ;DOE:U.S. Department of Energy<br /> ;DWM:Division of Waste Management<br /> ;ECC:Extended Continental Crust<br /> ;ECC-AM:Extended Continental Crust-Atlantic Margin (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;ECC-GC:Extended Continental Crust-Gulf Coast (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;ECFS:East Coast fault system<br /> ;ECFS-C:East Coast fault system-central segment<br /> ;ECFS-N:East Coast fault system-northern segment<br /> ;ECFS-S:East Coast fault system-southern segment<br /> ;EC-SFS:East Coast-Stafford fault system<br /> ;ECMA:East Coast magnetic anomaly<br /> ;ECRB:East Continent rift basin<br /> ;ECTM:Eastern Canada Telemetered Network<br /> ;E[M]:expected moment magnitude listed in the catalog for an earthquake<br /> ;ENA:eastern North America<br /> ;EP:Eau Plain shear zone<br /> ;EPRl:Electric Power Research institute<br /> ;EPRl-SOG:Electric Power Research lnstitute-Seismicity Owners Group<br /> ;ERM:Eastern rift margin<br /> ;ERM-N:Eastern rift margin-north<br /> ;ERM-RP:Eastern rift margin-river (fault) picks<br /> ;ERM-S:Eastern rift margin-south<br /> ;ERM-SCC:Eastern rift margin-south/Crittenden County<br /> ;ERM-SRP:Eastern rift margin-south/river (fault) picks<br /> ;ERRM:Eastern Reelfoot Rift Margin<br /> ;ESP:early site permit<br /> ;ESRl:Environmental Systems Research institute<br /> ;ETSZ:Eastern Tennessee seismic zone<br /> ;EUS:Eastern United States<br /> ;FAFC:Fluorspar Area fault complex<br /> ;FGDC:Federal Geographic Data Committee<br /> ;ft:foot or feet<br /> ;FTP:file transfer protocol ft/s feet per second ft/yr feet per year<br /> ;ft/s:feet per second<br /> ;ft/yr:feet per year<br /> ;FWLA:Fugro William Lettis &amp; Associates<br /> ;FWR:Fort Wayne rift<br /> ;Ga:billion years ago<br /> ;GC:Gulf Coast<br /> ;GCVSZ:Giles County, Virginia, seismic zone<br /> ;GHEX:Gulf Coast Highly Extended Crust (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;GlS:geographic information system<br /> ;GLTZ:Great Lakes tectonic zone<br /> ;GMC:ground-motion characterization (model)<br /> ;GMH:Great Meteor Hotspot (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;GMPE:ground-motion prediction equation<br /> ;GMRS:ground-motion response spectra<br /> ;GPR:ground-penetrating radar<br /> ;GPS:global positioning system<br /> ;GSC:Geological Survey of Canada<br /> ;Gyr:giga years (109 years)<br /> ;HF:Humboldt fault HlD hazard input document l0 maximum intensity<br /> ;HID:hazard input document<br /> ;Io:maximum intensity<br /> ;lAEA:international Atomic Energy Agency<br /> ;lBEB:Illinois Basin Extended Basement (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;lPEEE:individual Plant Examination for External Events<br /> ;lRM:lapetan rifted margin<br /> ;lSC:international Seismological Centre<br /> ;lTC:informed technical community<br /> ;ka:thousand years ago<br /> ;K-Ar:potassium-argon<br /> ;km:kilometer(s)<br /> ;km2:square kilometer(s)<br /> ;km/sec:kilometers per second<br /> ;K-S:Kijko-Sellevoll<br /> ;K-S-B:Kijko-Sellevoll-Bayes kyr thousand years<br /> ;kyr:thousand years<br /> ;LDO:Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory(catalog)<br /> ;LHS:Latin hypercube sampling<br /> ;LLNL:Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<br /> ;ln(FA):logarithm of felt area (with felt area measured in km2)<br /> ;LS:least squares<br /> ;LSA:La Salle anticlinal belt<br /> ;LWLS:locally weighted least squares m meter(s)<br /> ;m:meter(s)<br /> ;M:magnitude<br /> ;M,MW:moment magnitudes<br /> ;Ma:million years ago<br /> ;MAR:Marianna (RLME source)<br /> ;mb:body-wave magnitude (short period)<br /> ;mbLg:body-wave magnitude determined from higher-mode (Lg) surface waves<br /> ;MC:coda magnitude<br /> ;MCMC:Markov Chain Monte Carlo MD duration magnitude<br /> ;MD:duration magnitude<br /> ;MESE:Mesozoic and younger extended crust<br /> ;MESE-N:Mesozoic-and-younger extended crust or Mmax zone that is -narrow”<br /> ;MESE-W:Mesozoic-and-younger extended crust or Mmax zone that is -wide”<br /> ;mi.:mile(s)<br /> ;mi.2:square mile(s)<br /> ;MlDC:midcontinent<br /> ;MidC:Midcontinent-Craton (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;Mfa:felt-area magnitude<br /> ;ML:local magnitude<br /> ;Mmax,:Mmax maximum magnitude<br /> ;MMl:modified Mercalli intensity<br /> ;mm/yr:millimeters per year<br /> ;MN:Nuttli magnitude<br /> ;Mo:Scalar seismic moment<br /> ;MRS:Midcontinent rift system m/s meters per second<br /> ;m/s:meters per second<br /> ;MS:surface-wave magnitude<br /> ;MSF:Meeman-Shelby fault<br /> ;Mw: <br /> ;Myr:million years<br /> ;NAD83:North American Datum of 1983<br /> ;NAP:Northern Appalachian (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;Nd:neodymium<br /> ;NEDB:National Earthquake Database<br /> ;NEl:Nuclear Energy institute<br /> ;NElC:National Earthquake information Center<br /> ;NF:Niagara fault zone<br /> ;NMESE:Non-Mesozoic and younger extended crust<br /> ;NMESE-N:Mesozoic-and-younger extended crust or Mmax zone that is -narrow”<br /> ;NMESE-W:Mesozoic-and-younger extended crust or Mmax zone that is -wide”<br /> ;NMFS:New Madrid fault system<br /> ;NMN:New Madrid North fault<br /> ;NMS:New Madrid South fault<br /> ;NMSZ:New Madrid seismic zone<br /> ;NN:New Madrid north (fault segment as designated by Johnston and Schweig, 1996)<br /> ;NOAA:National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<br /> ;NPP:nuclear power plant(s)<br /> ;NR:Nemaha Ridge<br /> ;NRC:U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<br /> ;NRHF:Nemaha Ridge-Humboldt fault<br /> ;NSHMP:National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project<br /> ;NW:New Madrid west (fault segment as designated by Johnston and Schweig, 1996)<br /> ;OKA:Oklahoma aulacogen (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;OKO:Oklahoma Geological Survey Leonard Geophysical Observatory(catalog)<br /> ;OSL:optically stimulated luminescence Pa probability of activity(of being seismogenic)<br /> ;Pa:probability of activity (of being seismogenic)<br /> ;PEZ:Paleozoic Extended Crust (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;PGA:peak ground acceleration<br /> ;PM:Project Manager<br /> ;PPRP:Participatory Peer Review Panel<br /> ;PSHA:probabilistic seismic hazard analysis<br /> ;PVHA:probabilistic volcanic hazard analysis<br /> ;RCG:Rough Creek graben<br /> ;RF:Reelfoot fault<br /> ;RFT:Reelfoot thrust (fault)<br /> ;RLME:repeated large-magnitude earthquake (source)<br /> ;RR:Reelfoot rift zone<br /> ;RS:Reelfoot South (fault segment)<br /> ;SA:spectral acceleration<br /> ;SCL:St. Charles lineament<br /> ;SCML:south-central magnetic lineament<br /> ;SCR:stable continental region<br /> ;SCSN:South Carolina Seismic Network<br /> ;SEUS:Southeastern United States (catalog)<br /> ;SEUSSN:Southeastern United States Seismic Network<br /> ;SGFZ:Ste. Genevieve fault zone<br /> ;SHmax:maximum horizontal stress, compression, or principal stress<br /> ;SLR:St. Lawrence rift (seismotectonic zone)<br /> ;SLTZ:Spirit Lake tectonic zone<br /> ;SLU:Saint Louis University(catalog)<br /> ;SNM:Sanford et al. (2002 catalog)<br /> ;SOG:Seismicity Owners Group<br /> ;SPT:standard penetration test<br /> ;SRA:Stover, Reagor, and Algermissen (1984 catalog)<br /> ;SRTM:Shuttle Radar Topography Mission<br /> ;SSC:seismic source characterization<br /> ;SSE:safe shutdown earthquake<br /> ;SSHAC:Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee<br /> ;Str&amp;Tur:Street and Turcotte (1977 catalog)<br /> ;SUSN:Southeastern United States Network<br /> ;TC:technical community<br /> ;TFl:technical facilitator/integrator<br /> ;Tl:technical integration<br /> ;USGS:U.S. Geological Survey<br /> ;USNSN:U.S. National Seismograph Network<br /> ;UTC:Coordinated Universal Time<br /> ;VP/VS:ratio of P-wave velocity to S-wave velocity<br /> ;WES:Weston Observatory (catalog)<br /> ;WlPP:Waste isolation Pilot Project<br /> ;WQSZ:Western Quebec seismic zone<br /> ;WRFZ:White River fault zone<br /> ;WUS:Western United States<br /> ;WVFS:Wabash Valley fault system<br /> ;WVSZ:Wabash Valley seismic zone<br /> ;WWSSN:World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network</div>

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