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- Title
- Interim Report on Worldwide Historic Surface Faulting.
- File
- PB2006108448.pdf
- Author(s)
- Bonilla, M. G.; Buchanan, J. M.
- Source
- Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC., January 1970, 40 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- USGS-OFR-1611
- Abstract
- This interim report presents data on and interrelations between the parameters L (length of surface rupture), D (maximum surface displacement), and M(Richter magnitude of associated earthquake) for the main traces of historic surface faults that have been reported in the worldwide literature. Original descriptions of the individual fault-events published in English, French, German, or Spanish were used whenever possible, supplemented by translations of selected passages of reports published in Japanese and Chinese. For some events, original descriptions were not published in these languages and secondary sources were used.
- Keywords
- ; Geologic faults; Faults (Geology); Schematic diagrams; Surface rupture; Open-file report; Tables (Data); Surface faulting; Fault-events; Lingth; Seismic effects; Earthquakes