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Digital database of recently active traces of the Hayward Fault, California

The purpose of this map is to show the location of and evidence for recent movement on active fault traces within the Hayward Fault Zone, California. The mapped traces represent the integration of the following three different types of data: (1) geomorphic expression, (2) creep (aseismic fault slip),and (3) trench exposures. This publication is a major revision of an earlier map (Lienkaemper, 19
Authors
James J. Lienkaemper

Maps of quaternary deposits and liquefaction susceptibility in the Central San Francisco Bay Region, California

This report presents a map and database of Quaternary deposits and liquefaction susceptibility for the urban core of the San Francisco Bay region. It supercedes the equivalent area of U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-444 (Knudsen and others, 2000), which covers the larger 9-county San Francisco Bay region. The report consists of (1) a spatial database, (2) two small-scale colored maps (
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Robert C. Witter, Keith L. Knudsen, Janet M. Sowers, Carl M. Wentworth, Richard D. Koehler, Carolyn E. Randolph, Suzanna K. Brooks, Kathleen D. Gans

USGS science in Menlo Park -- a science strategy for the U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park Science Center, 2005-2015

In the spring of 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Menlo Park Center Council commissioned an interdisciplinary working group to develop a forward-looking science strategy for the USGS Menlo Park Science Center in California (hereafter also referred to as "the Center"). The Center has been the flagship research center for the USGS in the western United States for more than 50 years, and the C
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Thomas M. Brocher, Michael D. Carr, David L. Halsing, David John, Victoria E. Langenheim, Margaret T. Mangan, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, John Y. Takekawa, Claire R. Tiedeman

The Hayward fault

This field guide consists of eleven stops at sites that illustrate the geological, geophysical, geographic, and engineering aspects of the Hayward fault in the East Bay. Section I (Stops 1–4) consists of stops that are part of the University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), including research facilities, retrofit of campus buildings, and geomorphic features along the fault. Section II (Sto
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Doris Sloan, D. Wells, Glenn Borchardt, John Caulfield, D.M. Doolin, J. Eidinger, Lind Gee, Russell W. Graymer, Peggy Hellweg, Alan L. Kropp, James Lienkaemper, Charles Rabamad, N. Sitar, Heidi D. Stenner, Stephen Tobriner, David Tsztoo, M.L. Zoback

An overview of the global variability in radiated energy and apparent stress

a global study of radiated seismic energies ER and apparent stresses τ a reveals systematic patterns. earthquakes with the highest apparent stress occur in regions of intense deformation and rupture strong lithosphere. in oceanic settings, these are strike-slip earthquakes (τ a up to 27 Mpa) occurring intraplate or at evolving ends of transform faults. at subduction zones and intracontinental sett
Authors
George Choy, Arthur F. McGarr, Stephen H. Kirby, John Boatwright

Remnant damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

This field trip consists of two stops at locations where it is possible to see damage from the 1906 earthquake and to gauge the intensity of the ground shaking that caused the damage. The first stop is at a cemetery in Colma, where the damage to monuments and headstones was photographed and roughly quantified in the Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Lawson (1908), commonly r
Authors
John Boatwright

A field guide to the central, creeping section of the San Andreas fault and the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

This field trip is along the central section of the San Andreas fault and consists of eight stops that illustrate surface evidence of faulting, in general, and features associated with active fault creep, in particular. Fault creep is slippage along a fault that occurs either in association with small-magnitude earthquakes or without any associated large-magnitude earthquakes. Another aspect of th
Authors
Michael J. Rymer, Stephen H. Hickman, Philip W. Stoffer

The San Andreas fault on the San Francisco peninsula

This field trip consists of stops in four locations that provide insight into the San Andreas fault along the San Francisco peninsula. The first two stops provide an overview and close-up look at the fault where no urbanization has occurred. The last two stops are examples of areas where urbanization occurred directly over the fault prior to current regulations. The field trip also addresses the h
Authors
Carol S. Prentice, Greg W. Bartow, N. Timothy Hall, Michele Liapes