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St. Louis Geotechnical Database, v2003

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2023

Citation

Boyd, O.S., 2023, St. Louis Geotechnical Database, v2003: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91DPSFU.

Summary

The St. Louis area has experienced minor earthquake damage at least 12 times in the past 205 years. The St. Louis metropolitan area, with a population of about 2.8 million, faces earthquake hazard from large earthquakes in the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones, as well as a closer region of diffuse historical and prehistoric seismicity to its south and east. Also, low attenuation of seismic energy in the region and a substantial number of historic older unreinforced brick and stone buildings make the St. Louis area vulnerable to moderate earthquakes at relatively large distances compared to the western United States. This geotechnical database was compiled by James Palmer and others at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Oliver S Boyd
Originator :
Oliver S Boyd
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
SDC Data Owner :
Geologic Hazards Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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StL_geotech_final_RV_v2003.mdb 30.61 MB application/x-msaccess
StLouisGeotechnicalDatabase_v2003_VersionHistory.txt 351 Bytes text/plain
Tables.zip 2.38 MB application/zip
DATA_README.txt 2.05 KB text/plain

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to provide users with the geotechnical database that formed the basis of the St. Louis urban seismic hazard maps.

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