Hi all, Here again is a list of recent scientific articles related to Central and Eastern U.S. earthquake hazards.  Busy month! Natasha McCallister (nramsey at memphis.edu) is compiling the articles.  If you publish something of interest, please send Natasha or me the reference and we will send it out in our next list, or feel free to post it yourself!  Don't forget that this is a place to share articles, meetings, and discussion on all central and eastern U.S. earthquake hazards and related issues.  Thanks! Buddy Atkinson, G. and Beresnev, I., 2002,  Ground motions from large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 92, pp. 1015-1024. Cox, R.T., Hill, A.A., Larsen, D., Holzer, T., Forman, S.L., Noce, T., Gardner, C., Morat, J., 2007, Seismotectonic implications of sand blows in the southern Mississippi Embayment:  Engineering Geology, v. 89, p. 278-299. Forte, A. M., Mitrovica, J. X., Moucha, R., Simmons, N .A., and Grand, S. P., 2007, Descent of the ancient Farallon slab drives localized mantle flow below the New Madrid seismic zone: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, L04308, doi:10.1029/2006GL027895. Newman, A., 2007, Earthquake risk from strain rates on slipping faults, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88, p. 60. Pujol, J., Pezeshk, S., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., 2002, Unexpected values of Qs in the unconsolidated sediments of the Mississippi embayment: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 92, pp. 1117-1128.   Rydelek, P., 2007, New Madrid strain and postseismic transients: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88, p. 60-61. Stein, S., 2007, New Madrid GPS: Much ado about nothing?: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88, p. 59. Tavakoli, B. and Pezeshk, S., 2005, Empirical-Stochastic Ground-Motion Prediction for Eastern North America:  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 95(6), pp. 2283-2296, doi:10.1785/0120050030.   Wang, Zhenming, 2006, Understanding Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments: An Example in the New Madrid Seisimic Zone of the Central United States: Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquakes Engineering, Paper No. 416.    Wolf, L. W., M. P. Tuttle, S. Browning, and S. Park, 2006, Geophysical surveys of earthquake-induced liquefaction deposits in the New Madrid seismic zone: Geophysics, v. 71, p. B223-B270. __________________________________________________________________ Eugene Schweig Central and Eastern U.S. Coordinator Earthquake Hazards Program Office U.S. Geological Survey address:                                                 U.S. Geological Survey                                     (901) 678-4974 3876 Central Ave., Ste. 2                        Fax: (901) 678-4897 MEMPHIS, TN  38152-3050 ___________________________________________________________________