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Protecting Your Family From Earthquakes-The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety (in Spanish and English)
This book is provided here to share an important message on emergency preparedness. Historically, we have suffered earthquakes here in the San Francisco Bay Area that have caused severe hardship for residents and incredible damage to our cities. It is likely we will experience a severe earthquake within the next 30 years.
Many of us come from other countries where we have experienced earth- qu
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Protegiendo a su familia de los terremotos-Los siete pasos a la seguridad para prepararse en caso de un terremoto (en espa?ol y en ingles)
Les escribimos esta carta para comunicarle un mensaje sumamente importante sobre las preparaciones de emergencia. Historicamente, hemos sufrido terremotos aqui en el Area de la Bahia de San Francisco que han causado graves privaciones para los residentes de la comunidad y da?os increibles a nuestras ciudades. Es probable que suframos un terremoto de gran magnitud en los proximos 30 a?os.
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Asian Pacific Fund Desarrollado por American Red Cross
Crystal growth of ice-I/hydrate eutectic binary solutions
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C. McCarthy, K.D. Rieck, Stephen H. Kirby, W. B. Durham, L.A. Stern, R.F. Cooper
A form and checklist for the description of orchids in the field and laboratory work
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Stephen H. Kirby, Melania Munoz
An orchid inventory and conservation project at Bosque de Paz Biological Reserve, Upper Rio Toro Valley, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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Melania Munoz, Stephen H. Kirby
Geological processes and orchid biogeography with applications to southeast central America
This contribution owes its origins to a paper presentation by Dr. Calloway H. Dodson at the Second International Conference on Neotropical Orchidology held in San José, Costa Rica in May of2003 (Dodson 2003). Dr. Dodson outlined some ofthe reasons to suspect that regional geological fac-tors may play important roles in orchid speciation and biogeography and gave examples from the northwestern Sout
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Stephen H. Kirby
Experimental geoscience in a freezer: Ice and icy compounds as useful educational analogues for teaching earth and planetary materials science and the physical sciences
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Stephen H. Kirby
Earthquake hazard in the heart of the homeland
Evidence that earthquakes threaten the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash River valleys of the Central United States abounds. In fact, several of the largest historical earthquakes to strike the continental United States occurred in the winter of 1811-1812 along the New Madrid seismic zone, which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tenn., into southern Illinois. Several times in the past century, mode
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Joan Gomberg, Eugene Schweig
Ground motion issues for seismic analysis of tall buildings: A status report
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is coordinating a major multidisciplinary programme, the Tall Buildings Initiative (TBI), to address critical technical issues related to the design and analysis of new tall buildings located in coastal California. The authors of this paper, listed alphabetically, are involved in various research studies related to ground motion modelling,
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Y. Bozorgnia, K.W. Campbell, N. Luco, J.P. Moehle, F. Naeim, P. Somerville, T.Y. Yang
Writing on the walls: Geological context and early American spiritual beliefs
Native American culture in many parts of California is preserved in fragmentary oral and conventional written histories, but also in sometimes dramatic petroglyphs and pictographs throughout the state. The symbolism of these images has been interpreted to reflect the natural environment, in particular issues related to rain. Although there is little doubt that rain was of paramount concern to nati
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S. E. Hough
Behavior of tunnel form buildings under quasi-static cyclic lateral loading
In this paper, experimental investigations on the inelastic seismic behavior of tunnel form buildings (i.e., box-type or panel systems) are presented. Two four-story scaled building specimens were tested under quasi-static cyclic lateral loading in longitudinal and transverse directions. The experimental results and supplemental finite element simulations collectively indicate that lightly reinfor
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S.B. Yuksel, E. Kalkan
Risk-targeted versus current seismic design maps for the conterminous United States
The probabilistic portions of the seismic design maps in the NEHRP Provisions (FEMA, 2003/2000/1997), and in the International Building Code (ICC, 2006/2003/2000) and ASCE Standard 7-05 (ASCE, 2005a), provide ground motion values from the USGS that have a 2% probability of being exceeded in 50 years. Under the assumption that the capacity against collapse of structures designed for these "uniform
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Nicolas Luco, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Ronald O. Hamburger, John D. Hooper, Jeffrey K. Kimball, Charles A. Kircher