Expertise
Developing and maintaining the CEUS paleoliquefaction database and illustrating the database with GIS-based maps. Converting seismic hazard data into maps. Use of image processing and GIS to better understand paleoseismology and earthquake potential of the New Madrid seismic zone.
Education
Murray State University, Murray, KY, M.S., Geosciences, 1999
Murray State University, Murray, KY, B.S., Psychology, 1996
Professional History
M. Tuttle & Associates, Georgetown, ME, GIS/Web Specialist, 2016-present
Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, Technical Information Specialist, 1999-2016
Mid-America Remote Sensing Center, Murray State University, Research Assistant, 1996-1999
Selected Publications and Reports
Tuttle, M.P., Forman, S.L., Dyer-Williams, K., Tucker, K., and Velez, C., 2025, Paleoliquefaction Study and Earthquake Source Characterization of the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, Eastern United States.GeoHazards, v. 6, 45p, https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards6010013.
Tuttle, M.P., Dyer-Williams, K., Forman, S.L., Tucker, K., and Velez, C., 2024, Follow-Up Paleoliquefaction Studies of the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, Technical Letter Report, TLR-RES-DE-SGSEB-2024-2 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 69p.
Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., and Tucker, K., 2023, Improving estimates of the timing, locations, and magnitudes of paleoearthquakes in the Central Virginia seismic zone, Final Technical Report, Earthquake Hazard Program, U.S. Geological Survey award number G21AP10219, 37 p., https://mptuttle.com/downloads/G21AP10219_Final_Technical_Report.pdf.
Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., and Tucker, K., 2023, Paleoliquefaction studies of the Central Virginia seismic zone, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency, RIL 2023-04.
Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., and Tucker, K., 2022, Review of paleoliquefaction data, evaluation of scenario earthquakes, and estimation of source areas, magnitudes, and recurrence of large earthquakes impacting Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Final Technical Report, Earthquake Hazard Program, U.S. Geological Survey award number G21AP10006, 69 p., http://mptuttle.com/downloads/G21AP10006_Final_Technical_Report-rev.pdf.
Tuttle M. P., Al-Shukri, H, Mahdi, H., Hussein, R., Dyer-Williams, K., and Tucker, K., 2020, Geophysical and paleoseismic investigations of large sand blows along a northwest-oriented lineament near Marianna, Arkansas, Final Technical Report, Prepared for U.S. Geological Survey award G18AP00083, 31 p.
Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., and Tucker, K., 2020, Paleoliquefaction in the Central Virginia seismic zone and surrounding area, Final Technical Report, Earthquake Hazard Program, U.S. Geological Survey award number G18AP00027, 49 p.
Tuttle, M. P., Wolf, L. W., Starr, M. E., Villamor, P., Lafferty, R. H., III, Morrow, J. E., Scott, R., Jr., Forman, S. L., Hess, K., Tucker, K., Dunahue, J., and Haynes, M. L., 2019, Evidence for large New Madrid earthquakes about A.D. 0 and B.C. 1050, Central United States, Seismological Research Letters, v. 90, n. 3, p. 1393-1406.
Tuttle, M. P., Wolf, L. W., Dyer-Williams, K., Mayne, P., Lafferty, R. H., Hess, K., Starr, M. E., Haynes, M., Morrow, J., Scott, R., Busch, T., Villamor, P., Dunahue, J., Rathgaber, M., Tucker, K., Karrenbauer, C., and Moseley, C., 2019, Paleoliquefaction studies in moderate seismicity regions with a history of large earthquakes, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency, NUREG/CR-7257, 450 p.
Contributed to: Tuttle, M. P., Wolf, L. W., Mayne, P. W., Dyer-Williams, K., and Lafferty, R. H., 2018, Guidance document: Conducting paleoliquefaction studies for earthquake source characterization, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency, NUREG/CR-7238, 185 p.
Contributed to: Tuttle, M., and Dyer-Williams, K., 2017, Filling the gap in the paleoearthquake record between the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones, Final Technical Report, Prepared for U.S. Geological Survey grant G12AP20068, 88 p.
Contributed to: Tuttle, M. P., 2016, Earthquake potential of the central Virginia seismic zone, Final Technical Report, Prepared for U.S. Geological Survey grant G13AP00045, 32 p.
Contributed to: Tuttle, M. P., and Hartleb, R., 2012, Appendix E. Central and Eastern U.S. paleoliquefaction database, uncertainties associated with paleoliquefaction data, and guidance for seismic source characterization, in The Central and Eastern U.S. Seismic Source Characterization for Nuclear Facilities, Technical Report, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, U.S. DOE, and U.S. NRC, 135 p. plus database.
Cramer, C. H., Rix, G. J., and Tucker, K., 2008, Probabilistic Liquefaction Hazard Maps for Memphis, Tennessee, Seismological Research Letters, v. 79, n. 3, p. 416 - 423.
Cramer, C., Gomberg, J., Schweig, E., Waldron, B. and Tucker, K., 2006, First USGS Urban Seismic Hazard Maps Predict the Effects of Soils, Seismological Research Letters, v. 77, n. 1, p. 23-29.
Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., Schweig, E. S., Prentice, C. S., Moya, J. C., and Tucker, K. B., 2005, Liquefaction induced by historic and prehistoric earthquakes in western Puerto Rico, Mann, P., ed., In Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 263-276.
Cramer, C., Gomberg,J., Schweig, E., Waldron, B. and Tucker, K., 2004, The Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee seismic hazard maps, USGS, Open-File Report 2004-1294, 41 p.
Gomberg, J., Waldron, B., Schweig, E., Hwang, H., Webbers, A., Van Arsdale, R., Tucker, K., Williams, R. A., Street, R., Mayne, P., Stephenson, W., Odum, J., Cramer, C., Updike, R., Hutson, S., Bradley M., 2003, Lithology and Shear-wave Velocity in Memphis, Tennessee, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 986-998.
