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- Title
- Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989; Landslides. Strong Ground Motion and Ground Failure.
- File
- PB98145451.pdf
- Author(s)
- Keefer, D. K.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., January 1997, 190 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- USGS-PP-1551-C
- Abstract
- The first three papers in this chapter discuss various facets of the regional distribution of landslides: overall distribution and characteristics, coastal landslides, and generation of landslide dams. The next four papers discuss large, complex landslides that were generated near the rupture zone, including their overall characterization, analysis of their relation to ground cracks produced by processes other than landsliding, subsurface investigations documenting previous movement histories, and use of these well-documented features to calibrate methods of dynamic slope-stability analysis.
- Keywords
- Damage assessment; Southern Region (California); Geology; Coasts; Loma Prieta Earthquake; California; Landfills; Seismic epicenter; Slopes; San Francisco (California); Soil dynamics; Santa Cruze County (California); Dams; Trenching; Seismic effects; Earthquakes; Geological faults