Illinois Geological Hazards

Illinois faces two major seismic zones, the New Madrid Seismic Zone and the Wobash Valley Earthquake Zone. The New Marid earthquake zone is located in the middle of the Mississippi River including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Wobash Valley is located between the southeastern part of Illinois and the southwest part of Indiana. The earliest Illinois earthquake report occurred in Cascacia in 1795. This special phenomenon lasted only one and a half minutes.

George Ekbrau (1895-1972) of the Illinois State Geological Survey is not going to develop the concept of "Kankakee Torrent" named after "Brother Elmer" and "Cancaki Illinois". Glacier Meltwater (now considered to represent the meltwater flood of some glaciers) is a combination of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana glacial melt water drainage system. Another example of a prestigious researcher who helped fill this history is Johnson (1935-1997) of Professor Hillt of William Hilton, whose quaternary geology studies showed him in this area I made it a leading expert. Dr. Hilt Johnson of Stratigraphy and Petrochemical Rafting in Illinois State Kansas has a background of research and education that contributes to glacier and ice marginal geology, topography, sedimentology. , Knowledge of permafrost conditions and ice sheet dynamics.

Geological studies of USGS include major social problems such as geological hazards and disasters, climate change and change, energy and mineral resources, ecosystem and human health, groundwater availability. Our geological activity science strategy, the changing world of geology 2010-2020 - The implementation of the US Geological Survey Science Strategy, along with strategic actions and products to advance the scientific direction of the USGS science strategy, We will present the target "Challenge - USA. Geological Survey of Science, 2007-2017. "

Hazards are usually divided into three broad categories: nature, technology, and artificiality. Natural disasters are often related to weather and geological events such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and so on. Technical hazards are human activities such as the construction of dams and dams, the manufacture, transportation, storage and use of hazardous materials. Artificial hazards are often related to attacks by criminals or terrorists using weapons such as explosives, biological substances or chemicals. However, natural disasters can also become more complicated.