Earthquake hazard studies in southeastern Missouri

This report is intended to be a compact review of the current "state of the art" of operating a seismic telemetry network as applied to the New Madrid area, and incidentally, to the Adak, Alaska network because of the author's position as technical director of that network under a joint agreement with CIRES of the University of Colorado. The experiences and opinions expressed herein are necessarily those of the author and as such are limited to his acquaintance with the matter, and should not be construed to contradict or diminish the efforts of others operating telemetry networks under considerably different circumstances.