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Heather DeShon, Earth Sciences, new earthquake map shows quakes continue along fault line found in February

Dallas Morning News

Originally Posted: October 20, 2015

On Friday — or, as I like to say, two small earthquakes ago — our local earthquake task force (consisting of U.S. Geological Survey and SMU seismologists and Dallas and Irving city hall-passers) met to get a better look at that two-mile-long Irving-to-Northwest Dallas fault line uncovered in February. And what they saw was the new map posted above, which pinpoints quakes and smaller “events” detected by seismographs between January 1 and October 16. MORE