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The coseismic slip distributions of the 1940 and 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquakes and their implications
Geodetic arrays observed by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey span the Imperial fault in southern California. For the 1940 M 7.1 Imperial Valley earthquake, a 1934–1941 triangulation network has sufficient resolution to allow inversion for the coseismic slip distribution on fault segments 5 to 25 km long extending from the surface to a depth of 9 km. The estimated right-lateral slip is 0.8 to 1.7
Authors
Nancy E. King, Wayne R. Thatcher
Seismic profiling constraints on the evolution of the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska
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E. S. Wissinger, A. R. Levander, J. S. Oldow, Gary S. Fuis, W. J. Lutter
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
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
Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Septentrional fault system, Dominican Republic
No abstract available.
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Paul Mann, Carol S. Prentice, G. Burr, Luis R. Peña, F. W. Taylor
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
The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Earth structures and engineering characterization of ground motion
This chapter contains two papers that summarize the performance of engineered earth structures, dams and stabilized excavations in soil, and two papers that characterize for engineering purposes the attenuation of ground motion with distance during the Loma Prieta earthquake. Documenting the field performance of engineered structures and confirming empirically based predictions of ground motion ar
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Thomas L. Holzer
Experimental investigations regarding the use of sand as an inhibitor of air convection in deep seismic boreholes
Tilt has been the nemesis of horizontal long period seismology since its inception. Modern horizontal long period seismometers with their long natural periods are incredibly sensitive to tilt. They can sense tilts smaller than 10-11 radians. To most readers, this is just a very very small number, so we will begin with an example, which should help to illustrate just how small 10-11 radians is.Supp
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L. Gary Holcomb, Leo Sandoval, Bob Hutt
Chapter D. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Recovery, Mitigation, and Reconstruction
The papers in this chapter reflect the broad spectrum of issues that arise following a major damaging urban earthquake-the regional economic consequences, rehousing problems, reconstruction strategies and policies, and opportunities for mitigation before the next major seismic event. While some of these papers deal with structural or physical science topics, their significant social and policy imp