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The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Forecasts
The magnitude (Mw) 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay region of central California at 5:04 p.m. P.d.t. on October 17, 1989, killing 62 people and generating billions of dollars in property damage. Scientists were not surprised by the occurrence of a destructive earthquake in this region and had, in fact, been attempting to forecast the location of the next large earthquake in
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Ruth A. Harris
Chapter C. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Building Structures
Several approaches are used to assess the performance of the built environment following an earthquake -- preliminary damage surveys conducted by professionals, detailed studies of individual structures, and statistical analyses of groups of structures. Reports of damage that are issued by many organizations immediately following an earthquake play a key role in directing subsequent detailed inves
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Mehmet Çelebi
The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Landslides
Central California, in the vicinity of San Francisco and Monterey Bays, has a history of fatal and damaging landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, coastal and stream erosion, construction activity, and earthquakes. The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake (MS=8.2-8.3) generated more than 10,000 landslides throughout an area of 32,000 km2; these landslides killed at least 11 people and caused subs
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David K. Keefer, Michael W. Manson, Gary B. Griggs, Nathaniel Plant, Robert L. Schuster, Gerald F. Wieczorek, David G. Hope, Edwin Harp, J. M. Nolan, Gerald E. Weber, William F. Cole, Dale R. Marcum, Patrick O. Shires, Bruce R. Clark
Chapter B. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Highway Systems
This paper summarizes the impact of the Loma Prieta earthquake on highway systems. City streets, urban freeways, county roads, state routes, and the national highway system were all affected. There was damage to bridges, roads, tunnels, and other highway structures. The most serious damage occurred in the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, 60 miles from the fault rupture. The cost to repair and
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Mark Yashinsky
Popular beach disappears underwater in huge coastal landslide — Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
In February 1995, a 1,600-foot stretch of popular beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore suddenly slid into the waters of northeastern Lake Michigan. The National Park Service (NPS) immediately requested the assistance of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in evaluating the hazard at the lakeshore. To protect the public, USGS and NPS scientists are conducting studies that will help predict
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Bruce Jaffe, Robert Kayen, Helen Gibbons, James W. Hendley, Peter H. Stauffer
The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Liquefaction
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake both reconfirmed the vulnerability of areas in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay region to liquefaction and provided an opportunity to test methodologies for predicting liquefaction that have been developed since the mid-1970's. This vulnerability is documented in the chapter edited by O'Rourke and by the investigators in this chapter who describe case histories of liq
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Thomas L. Holzer, Jean Lou A. Chameau, G. Wayne Clough, J.D. Frost, Fernando A. M. Reyna, Robert E. Kayen, James K. Mitchell, Raymond B. Seed, Shin'ya Nishio, Maurice S. Power, John A. Egan, Scott E. Shewbridge, John deBecker, J. Richard Faris, Michael J. Bennett, Lelio H. Mejia, John D. Sims, C. D. Garvin, Roman D. Hryciw, Alan L. Kropp, Matthew Homolka, Wayne A. Charlie, Donald O. Doehring, Jeffrey P. Brislawn, Hassen Hassen, Kyle Rollins, Michael D. Mchood, Frederick J. Wentz, William R. Dupre, John C. Tinsley
Velocities of the Pine Island, Thwaites, and smaller glaciers along the Marie Byrd Land coast, West Antarctica
Average velocities for time intervals ranging from < 1 to 15 years were measured by tracking ice-surface patterns on sequential Landsat and European Remote-sensing Satellite synthetic aperture radar images. Velocities ofThwaites Glacier range from 2.2 km a−1 above the grounding line to 3.4 km a−1 at the limit of measurements onThwaites Glacier ice tongue. The glacier increases in velocity by about
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Christina E. Rosanova, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Jane G. Ferrigno
Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Septentrional fault system, Dominican Republic
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Paul Mann, Carol S. Prentice, G. Burr, Luis R. Peña, F. W. Taylor
U. S. Geolgogical Survey Flagstaff Field Center
The United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Field Center was founded by the late Eugene Shoemaker in 1963 as a research site for the new science of planetary geology. Flagstaffs clear air and high elevation made it a desirable location for telescope observations of the Moon and planets and nearby Meteor Crater was a superb training ground for the Apollo astronauts. There, and in the volcanic fie
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Digital Compilation of "Preliminary Map of Landslide Deposits in Santa Cruz County, California, By Cooper-Clark and Associates, 1975": A Digital Map Database
A 1:62,500-scale black-and-white map identifying some 2,000 landslides of various types in Santa Cruz County, California, has been converted to a digital-map database that can be acquired from the U.S. Geological Survey over the Internet or on magnetic tape.
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Sebastian Report by Roberts, Andrew D. Barron, Earl E. Preface by Brabb, Richard J. Pike
Chapter A. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Lifelines
To the general public who had their televisions tuned to watch the World Series, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a lifelines earthquake. It was the images seen around the world of the collapsed Cypress Street viaduct, with the frantic and heroic efforts to pull survivors from the structure that was billowing smoke; the collapsed section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and subsequent ho
Scenic drive landslide of January-March 1998, La Honda, San Mateo County, California
The small rural town of La Honda, Calif., is an unincorporated region of San Mateo County situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the western part of the San Francisco peninsula. Much of the town is underlain by a previously recognized ancient landslide complex. The ancient slide complex covers about 1.0 to 1.25 km2, parts of which have been historically active. This report describes a recent land
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Angela S. Jayko, Michael J. Rymer, Carol S. Prentice, Ray C. Wilson, Ray E. Wells