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Brian Stump, Earth Sciences, U.S.G.S. to raise Texas’ earthquake hazard risk

Houston Chronicle

Originally Posted: Jan 28, 2015

….”Once the locations have been completed, only then can we assess possible causes,” said Brian Stump, a seismologist with Southern Methodist University, in a Jan. 15 address to the Irving city council.

Whatever the cause, the frequency of North Texas tremors and the occurrence of earthquake “swarms” around Texas towns of Irving in 2014, Azle in 2013 and Snyder in 2011 have raised some concern at the USGS…. READ MORE

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