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Landslides triggered by earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley, Tennessee and Kentucky Landslides triggered by earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley, Tennessee and Kentucky

We mapped 221 large (more than 200 ft across) landslides of three morphologically distinct types on the bluffs bordering the Mississippi alluvial plain in western Tennessee and Kentucky Old coherent slides (146 landslides, or 66 percent of the total) include translational block slides and single and multiple-block rotational slumps, all of which are covered by mature vegetation and have...
Authors
Randall W. Jibson, David K. Keefer

Real-time landslide warning during heavy rainfall Real-time landslide warning during heavy rainfall

A real-time system for issuing warnings of landslides during major storms is being developed for the San Francisco Bay region, California. The system is based on empirical and theoretical relations between rainfall and landslide initiation, geologic determination of areas susceptible to landslides, real-time monitoring of a regional network of telemetering rain gages, and National...
Authors
David K. Keefer, R. C. Wilson, R. K. Mark, E. E. Brabb, W. M. Brown, S. D. Ellen, E. L. Harp, G. F. Wieczorek, C.S. Alger, R.S. Zatkin

Preliminary results from a study of natural slope failures triggered by the storm of November 3.5.1985, Germany Valley, West Virginia and Virginia: Chapter 4 in Landslides of eastern North America Preliminary results from a study of natural slope failures triggered by the storm of November 3.5.1985, Germany Valley, West Virginia and Virginia: Chapter 4 in Landslides of eastern North America

During the first five days of November 1985, a low-pressure system in the Ohio River valley combined with a low-pressure system referred to as Tropical Storm Juan to produce heavy rainfall in the Potomac, James, and Rappahannock River basins. Severe flooding accompanied the rainfall; 43 lives were lost and the flood was estimated to be the most expensive natural disaster of 1985 in the...
Authors
Robert B. Jacobson, Elizabeth D. Cron, John P. McGeehin

Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling

The effects of three methods of data selection upon the assumed main field levels for geomagnetic observatory records used in main field modeling were investigated for a year of very low solar-terrestrial activity. The first method concerned the differences between the year's average of quiet day field values and the average of all values during the year. For H these differences were 2-3...
Authors
W.H. Campbell

Assessment of models proposed for the 1985 revision of the international geomagnetic reference field Assessment of models proposed for the 1985 revision of the international geomagnetic reference field

Geomagnetic measurements from land, marine and aerial surveys conducted in the years 1945-1964 were used to test the 14 models proposed as additions, for that period, to the series of definitive geomagnetic reference field (DGRF) models. Overall, NASA's 'SFAS' models and the BGS (British Geological Survey) models agree best with these data. Comparisons of the two proposed definitive main...
Authors
N.W. Peddie, A.K. Zunde

Localized sudden changes in the geomagnetic secular variation. Localized sudden changes in the geomagnetic secular variation.

There is much debate as to whether there was a worldwide geomagnetic jerk in 1969 or 1970. It is agreed that there was an unusual sharp change in the secular variation in the east component, Y, in Europe at that time. This note points out how a localized sudden change in the secular variation pattern of one component in Europe can occur without having any large worldwide effects in any...
Authors
L.R. Alldredge
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