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  • Earthquake Prediction and Hazard Mitigation Options for USGS and NSF Programs.
    Geological Survey, Washington, DC., September 15, 1976, 79 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ['NSF-76-49', 'NSF/RA-770262']
    Keywords: Seismic waves; Ground motion; Earthquake prediction; Hazards; Earthquake engineering; Risk analysis; Earthquakes; Forecasting; Seismic arrays; Warning systems; Seismology; Predictions; Cost analysis; Geological faults; Seismic risk

  • Earthquake Preparedness in the San Francisco Bay Region: An Inventory and Assessment of Current Programs and Activities and Recommendations for Future Comprehensive Earthquake Preparedness Projects.
    California Seismic Safety Commission, Sacramento.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., September 1984, 126 p.
    Keywords: Damage; Policies; Hazards; San Francisco (California); State government; Earthquakes; Urban areas; History; Losses; Structures; Civil defense; Assessments; Objectives; Fires; Casualties; Disasters; Geological faults

  • Ayre, R. S.; Mileti, D. S.; Trainer, P. B.
    Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards in the United States: A Research Assessment.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., January 1975, 169 p.
    Keywords: Geological faults; Damage; Hazards; Tsunamis; Research management; Earthquakes; Earthquake warning systems; Landslides; Pacific Coast; Forecasting; Alaskan Coast; California; Warning systems; Mathematical models; Seismology; Land use; Wave forecasting; Disaster relief; Disasters

  • Nalivkin, D. V.
    Hurricanes, Storms and Tornadoes: Geographic Characteristics and Geological Activity.
    cJanuary 1982, 609 p.
    Identifying Number(s): TT-75-52013
    Keywords: Wind (Meteorology); Atmospheric circulation; Foreign technology; Storms; Air land interactions; Air water interactions; Earthquakes; Marine meteorology; Geology; Translations; Marine microorganisms; Environmental transport; Meteorology; Air currents; Ocean currents; Sedimentation; Geography; Hurricanes; Tornadoes; Geological faults

  • Seismic '77: UCLA Contributions to the Sixth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Engineering and Applied Science., January 1977, 59 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCLA/ENG-7683
    Keywords: Ground motion; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake resistant structures; Meetings; Earthquakes; Soil properties; Earth movements; Liquefaction (Soils); Transfer functions; Surface waves; Geological faults; Dynamic structural analysis

  • Rowlett, H.; Perez, O.
    Tectonics of the Oceanographer Transform: Seismic Evidence.
    September 1978, 60 p.
    Keywords: Seismic detection; Submarine topographic features; Seismographs; Earthquakes; Microseisms; Seismic refraction; Monitoring; North Atlantic Ocean; MidAtlantic Ridge; Scarps; Seismic data; Submarine faults; Tectonics; Ocean bottom; Geological faults

  • Cardwell, R. K.; Isacks, B. L.
    Geometry of the Subducted Lithosphere Beneath the Banda Sea in Eastern Indonesia from Seismicity and Fault Plane Solutions.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office for the International Decade of Ocean Exploration., cJune 1978, 15 p.
    Keywords: Banda Sea; Models; Earthquakes; Indonesia; Plate tectonics; Lithosphere; Reprints; Tectonics; International Decade of Ocean Exploration; Stresses; Geological faults; Volcanoes

  • Rojahn, C.
    California Building Strong Motion Earthquake Instrumentation Program.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., March 31, 1976, 22 p.
    Keywords: Ground motion; California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Guidelines; Earthquakes; Installation; Site surveys; Earth movements; Recording instruments; California; CSMIP program; Geological faults

  • Stewart, J. P.; Bray, J. D.; Seed, R. B.; Sitar, N.
    Preliminary Report on the Principal Geotechnical Aspects of the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.; David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA., June 1994, 260 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCB/EERC-94/08
    Keywords: Failure; Performance evaluation; Damage assessment; Dams; Earth movements; Structures; Maps; San Gabriel mountains; Earthquake damage; Los Angeles (California); San Fernando Valley; Seismic epicenter; Earthquakes; Soil properties; Northridge Earthquake; Liquefaction; Earth fills; California; Solid wastes; Geological faults; Seismographs; Earthquake resistant structures; Landslides

  • Keefer, D. K.
    Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989; Landslides. Strong Ground Motion and Ground Failure.
    National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., January 1997, 190 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS-PP-1551-C
    Keywords: Dams; Damage assessment; Seismic epicenter; San Francisco (California); Southern Region (California); Earthquakes; Geology; Landfills; Soil dynamics; Loma Prieta Earthquake; Seismic effects; Trenching; California; Slopes; Santa Cruze County (California); Coasts; Geological faults