CHEROKEE VILLAGE — There will be a program about earthquakes at the next Spring River Gem and Mineral Club meeting from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, at the Omaha Center in Cherokee Village.

The presentation is called Earthquakes: The New Madrid Seismic Zone. It will cover the seismic zone and provide updates on ongoing research at the Arkansas Center of Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer to identify and characterize specific features related to historic and prehistoric earthquakes in eastern Arkansas.

Visitors are welcome. More information is available by calling Dorothy Rolland at (870) 257-2393 or Petr Oberding at (870) 257-2947.

This article was published Sunday, August 17, 2008.

Three Rivers, Pages 119 on 08/17/2008

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