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Chapter A. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Loss estimation and procedures

This Professional Paper includes a collection of papers on subjects ranging from evaluation of building safety, to human injuries, to correlation of ground deformation with building damage. What these papers share is a common goal to improve the tools available to the research community to measure the nature, extent, and causes of damage and losses due to earthquakes. These measurement tools are c

The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 — Hydrologic disturbances

Seismic events have long been known to cause changes in the level of oceans, streams, lakes, and the water table. The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 induced significant hydrologic changes that were qualitatively similar to those changes observed for the Loma Prieta earthquake. What is different is that the hydrologic data sets collected from the Loma Prieta event have enough detail to enab

Landslides in colluvium

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Authors
Robert W. Fleming, Arvid M. Johnson

Potential effects of the Hawaii Geothermal Project on ground-water resources on the island of Hawaii

In 1990, the State of Hawaii proposed the Hawaii Geothermal Project for the development of as much as 500 MW of electric power from the geothermal system in the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano. This report uses data from 31 wells and 8 springs to describe the properties of the ground-water system in and adjacent to the East Rift Zone. Potential effects of this project on ground-water resources a
Authors
M. L. Sorey, E.M. Colvard

Campground talk and slide show on volcanoes for Chiricahua National Monument

The slides and the accompanying script presented here are based on a campground presentation at Chiricahua National Monument in 1994. Examples of eruptions at active volcanoes are used to help the audience visualize events that took place in the National Monument 27 million years ago. This presentation stresses the following themes: 1) The National Monument lies on the flank of an ancient volcano
Authors
J.S. Pallister, E. A. Du Bray

Surface degassing and modifications to vesicle size distributions in active basalt flows

The character of the vesicle population in lava flows includes several measurable parameters that may provide important constraints on lava flow dynamics and rheology. Interpretation of vesicle size distributions (VSDs), however, requires an understanding of vesiculation processes in feeder conduits, and of post-eruption modifications to VSDs during transport and emplacement. To this end we collec
Authors
K. V. Cashman, M. T. Mangan, S. Newman

The observational side of volcanology

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Authors
David A. Swanson, Hans-Ulrich Schmincke
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