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An evaluation of installation methods for STS-1 seismometers An evaluation of installation methods for STS-1 seismometers

This report documents the results of a series of experiments conducted by the authors at the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory (ASl) during the spring and summer of 1991; the object of these experiments was to obtain and document quantitative performance comparisons of three methods of installing STS-1 seismometers. Historically, ASL has installed STS-1 sensors by cementing their...
Authors
L. Gary Holcomb, Charles R. Hutt

The National Landslide Information Center; data to reduce landslide damage The National Landslide Information Center; data to reduce landslide damage

Almost every day a landslide disasters occurs somewhere in the world. Nearly any time there is heavy rainfall, an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, strong wave action on a shoreline, or some ill-considered alteration of sloping land by humans, landslides occur. In a world of persistent and increasing construction on and occupation of hillslopes, canyons, and coastal bluffs, landslides are...
Authors
W. M. Brown
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