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Data from theodolite measurements of creep rates on San Francisco Bay region faults, California: 1979-2001
My purpose is to make our creep data on San Francisco Bay region active faults available to the scientific research community. My student research assistants and I measured creep (aseismic slip) rates on these faults from 1979 until my retirement from the project in 2001. These data are further described in my final technical report as principal investigator, which summarizes results from 22 Septe
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Jon S. Galehouse
Borehole velocity measurements at five sites that recorded the Cape Mendocino, California earthquake of 25 April, 1992
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as part of an ongoing program to acquire seismic velocity and geologic data at locations that recorded strong-ground motions during earthquakes, has investigated five sites in the Fortuna, California region (Figure 1). We selected drill sites at strong-motion stations that recorded high accelerations (Table 1) from the Cape Mendocino earthquake (M 7.0) of 25 Apri
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James F. Gibbs, John C. Tinsley, David M. Boore
User's guide to HYPOINVERSE-2000, a Fortran program to solve for earthquake locations and magnitudes
Hypoinverse is a computer program that processes files of seismic station data for an earthquake (like p wave arrival times and seismogram amplitudes and durations) into earthquake locations and magnitudes. It is one of a long line of similar USGS programs including HYPOLAYR (Eaton, 1969), HYPO71 (Lee and Lahr, 1972), and HYPOELLIPSE (Lahr, 1980).
If you are new to Hypoinverse, you may want to st
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Fred W. Klein
Crustal structure across the Bering Strait, Alaska: Onshore recordings of a marine seismic survey
No abstract available.
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Lorraine W. Wolf, Robert C. McCaleb, David B. Stone, Thomas M. Brocher, Kazuya Fujita, Simon L. Klemperer
Constraints on the age of formation of seismically reflective middle and lower crust beneath the Bering Shelf: SHRIMP zircon dating of xenoliths from Saint Lawrence Island
No abstract available.
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Elizabeth L. Miller, T. R. Ireland, Simon L. Klemperer, Karl Wirth, Vyacheslav V Akinin, Thomas M. Brocher
Modified Mercalli intensities (MMI) for large earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-1812 and near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886
Large historical earthquakes occurred in the eastern United States on December 16, 1811 near New Madrid, MO, on January 23, 1812 near New Madrid, MO, on February 7, 1812 near New Madrid, MO, and on September 1, 1886 near Charleston, SC. Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) assignments for these earthquakes were used by Bakun et al. (submitted) to estimate the location and moment magnitude M of these
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W. H. Bakun, A. C. Johnston, M. G. Hopper
Implosion, earthquake, and explosion recordings from the 2000 Seattle Kingdome Seismic Hazards Investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS), Washington
This report describes seismic data obtained in Seattle, Washington, March 24-28, 2000, during a Seismic Hazards Investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS). The seismic recordings obtained by this SHIPS experiment, nicknamed Kingdome SHIPS, were designed to (1) measure site responses throughout Seattle and to (2) help define the location of the Seattle fault. During Kingdome SHIPS, we recorded the Kingdo
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Thomas M. Brocher, Thomas L. Pratt, Craig S. Weaver, Catherine M. Snelson, Arthur D. Frankel
Case histories of induced and triggered seismicity: Chapter 40
No abstract available.
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Arthur F. McGarr, David Simpson, L. Seeber
Investigation of an earthquake swarm near Trinidad, Colorado, August-October 2001
A swarm of 12 widely felt earthquakes occurred between August 28 and September 21, 2001, in the area west of the town of Trinidad, Colorado. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude between 2.8 and 4.6, and the largest event occurred on September 5, eight days after the initial M 3.4 event. The nearest permanent seismograph station to the swarm is about 290 km away, resulting in large uncertainties i
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Mark E. Meremonte, John C. Lahr, Arthur D. Frankel, James W. Dewey, Anthony J. Crone, Dee E. Overturf, David L. Carver, W. Thomas Bice.
Response plan for volcano hazards in the Long Valley Caldera and Mono Craters region, California
No abstract available.
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David P. Hill, Daniel Dzurisin, William L. Ellsworth, Elliot T. Endo, D. L. Galloway, Terry M. Gerlach, Malcolm S.J. Johnston, John Langbein, Ken A. McGee, C. Dan Miller, David Oppenheimer, Michael L. Sorey
Modified Mercalli Intensities (MMI) for some earthquakes in eastern North America (ENA) and empirical MMI site corrections for towns in ENA
Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) assignments for earthquakes in eastern North America (ENA) were used by Bakun et al. (submitted) to develop a model for eastern North America for estimating the location and moment magnitude M of earthquakes from MMI observations. MMI assignments for most of the earthquakes considered by Bakun et al. (submitted) are published. MMI assignments for 6 other earthquak
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W. H. Bakun, A. C. Johnston, M. G. Hopper
Shear-wave velocity compilation for Northridge strong-motion recording sites
Borehole and other geotechnical information collected at the strong-motion recording sites of the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994 provide an important new basis for the characterization of local site conditions. These geotechnical data, when combined with analysis of strong-motion recordings, provide an empirical basis to evaluate site coefficients used in current versions of US building
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Roger D. Borcherdt, Thomas E. Fumal