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Topographic map of the active part of the Slumgullion Landslide on July 31, 2000, Hinsdale County, Colorado
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James A. Messerich, Jeffrey A. Coe
West-central Florida coastal classification maps - Anclote Key to Venice Inlet
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Robert A. Morton, Russell L. Peterson
Preliminary assessment of landslide-induced wave hazards: Tidal Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
A large potential rock avalanche above the northern shore of Tidal Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, was investigated to determine hazards and risks of landslide-induced waves to cruise ships and other park visitors. Field and photographic examination revealed that the 5 to 10 million cubic meter landslide moved between AD 1892 and 1919 after the retreat of Little Ice Age glaciers from Tid
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Gerald F. Wieczorek, Matthias Jakob, Roman J. Motyka, Sandra L. Zirnheld, Patricia Craw
The Sidebar Computer Program, a seismic-shaking intensity meter: users' manual and software description
The SideBar computer program provides a visual display of seismic shaking intensity as recorded at one specific seismograph. This software allows a user to tap into the seismic data recorded on that specific seismograph and to display the overall level of shaking at the single location where that seismograph resides (usually the same place the user is). From this shaking level, SideBar also estima
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John R. Evans
Major and catastrophic storms and floods in Texas: 215 major and 41 catastrophic events from 1953 to September 1, 2002
Many Texas storms represent some of the largest storms in the world. Flooding from large storms has affected Texas throughout its history, causing many deaths and much economic loss and hardship. Floods occur regularly in Texas, and destructive floods occur somewhere in the State every year. Many of these floods are destructive because they often occur in areas where extreme flooding had not occur
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Raymond M. Slade, John M. Patton
Additional information for “TREMOR: A Wireless, MEMS Accelerograph for Dense Arrays” (Evans et al., 2003)
The length of Evans et al. (2003) necessitated transfer of several less germane sections to this alternate forum to meet that venues needs. These sections include a description of the development of Figure 1, the plot of spatial variability so critical to the argument for dense arrays of strong-motion instruments; the description of the rapid, integer, computational method for PGV used in the TRE
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John R. Evans, Robert H. Hamstra, Paul Spudich, Christoph Kundig, Patrick Camina, John A. Rogers
An Account of Preliminary Landslide Damage and Losses Resulting from the February 28, 2001, Nisqually, Washington, Earthquake
The February 28, 2001, Nisqually, Washington, earthquake (Mw = 6.8) damaged an area of the northwestern United States that previously experienced two major historical earthquakes, in 1949 and in 1965. Preliminary estimates of direct monetary losses from damage due to earthquake-induced landslides is approximately $34.3 million. However, this figure does not include costs from damages to the elevat
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Lynn M. Highland
What Became of the Water on Mars?
Focuses on several exploratory missions to the planet Mars to investigate the role of water within the planet. Facts about Mars that were gathered from two National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbiters, the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey; Features of Mars that are similar with the planet Earth; Factors that contribute to the possible existence of water in Mars; Background on the ge
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M. H. Carr
Erratum: Empirical evidence for site coefficients in building code provisions
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Authors
Roger D. Borcherdt
A compendium of P- and S-wave velocities from surface-to-borehole logging; summary and reanalysis of previously published data and analysis of unpublished data
For over 28 years, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been acquiring seismic velocity and geologic data at a number of locations in California, many of which were chosen because strong ground motions from earthquakes were recorded at the sites. The method for all measurements involves picking first arrivals of P- and S-waves from a surface source recorded at various depths in a borehole (as opp
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David M. Boore
Wide-angle seismic recording from the 2002 Georgia Basin Geohazards Initiative, northwestern Washington and British Columbia
This report describes the acquisition and processing of shallow-crustal wide-angle seismicreflection and refraction data obtained during a collaborative study in the Georgia Strait, western Washington and southwestern British Columbia. The study, the 2002 Georgia Strait Geohazards Initiative, was conducted in May 2002 by the Pacific Geoscience Centre, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the University
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Thomas M. Brocher, Thomas L. Pratt, George D. Spence, Michael Riedel, Roy D. Hyndman
The plan to coordinate NEHRP post-earthquake investigations
This is the plan to coordinate domestic and foreign post-earthquake investigations supported by the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). The plan addresses coordination of both the NEHRP agencies—Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Science Foundation (NSF), and U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)—and their partner
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Thomas L. Holzer, Roger D. Borcherdt, Craig D. Comartin, Robert D. Hanson, Charles R. Scawthorn, Kathleen Tierney, T. Leslie Youd