A new network of geodetic field stations has greatly improved monitoring of relative motion across a seismic zone in the central United States. It seems that rapid deformation is occurring across this fault system.
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Tuttle, M. New Madrid in motion. Nature 435, 1037–1038 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4351037a
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