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Cone penetration test and soil boring at the Bayside Groundwater Project Site in San Lorenzo, Alameda County, California Cone penetration test and soil boring at the Bayside Groundwater Project Site in San Lorenzo, Alameda County, California
Aquifer-system deformation associated with ground-water-level changes is being investigated cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) at the Bayside Groundwater Project (BGP) near the modern San Francisco Bay shore in San Lorenzo, California. As a part of this project, EBMUD has proposed an aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)...
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Michael J. Bennett, Michelle Sneed, Thomas E. Noce, John C. Tinsley
Implementation of the SSHAC Guidelines for Level 3 and 4 PSHAs - Experience gained from actual applications Implementation of the SSHAC Guidelines for Level 3 and 4 PSHAs - Experience gained from actual applications
In April 1997, after four years of deliberations, the Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee released its report 'Recommendations for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: Guidance on Uncertainty and Use of Experts' through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as NUREG/CR-6372, hereafter SSHAC (1997). Known informally ever since as the 'SSHAC Guidelines', SSHAC (1997) addresses why...
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Thomas C. Hanks, Norm A. Abrahamson, David M. Boore, Kevin J. Coppersmith, Nichole E. Knepprath
Data files for ground-motion simulations of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and scenario earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault Data files for ground-motion simulations of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and scenario earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault
This data set contains results from ground-motion simulations of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, seven hypothetical earthquakes on the northern San Andreas Fault, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The bulk of the data consists of synthetic velocity time-histories. Peak ground velocity on a 1/60th degree grid and geodetic displacements from the simulations are also included. Details...
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Brad T. Aagaard, Michael Barall, Thomas M. Brocher, David Dolenc, Douglas Dreger, Robert W. Graves, Stephen Harmsen, Stephen H. Hartzell, Shawn Larsen, Kathleen McCandless, Stefan Nilsson, N. Anders Petersson, Arthur Rodgers, Bjorn Sjogreen, Mary Lou Zoback
A seismologist considers a new method of earthquake prediction A seismologist considers a new method of earthquake prediction
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Susan E Hough
U.S. Geological Survey Global Seismographic Network - Five-Year Plan 2006-2010 U.S. Geological Survey Global Seismographic Network - Five-Year Plan 2006-2010
The Global Seismographic Network provides data for earthquake alerting, tsunami warning, nuclear treaty verification, and Earth science research. The system consists of nearly 150 permanent digital stations, distributed across the globe, connected by a modern telecommunications network. It serves as a multi-use scientific facility and societal resource for monitoring, research, and...
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William S. Leith, Lind S. Gee, Charles R. Hutt
Illuminating Northern California’s Active Faults Illuminating Northern California’s Active Faults
Newly acquired light detection and ranging (lidar) topographic data provide a powerful community resource for the study of landforms associated with the plate boundary faults of northern California (Figure 1). In the spring of 2007, GeoEarthScope, a component of the EarthScope Facility construction project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, acquired approximately 2000 square
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Carol S. Prentice, Christopher J. Crosby, Caroline S. Whitehill, J. Ramon Arrowsmith, Kevin P. Furlong, David A. Philips
Addressing geohazards through ocean drilling Addressing geohazards through ocean drilling
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J.K. Morgan, Eli Silver, Angelo Camerlenghi, Brandon Dugan, Stephen H. Kirby, Craig Shipp, Kiyoshi Suyehiro
Earthquake Spectra at 25 Earthquake Spectra at 25
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Charles C. Thiel, James E. Beavers, Jack P. Moehle, Roger D. Borcherdt, Farzad Naeim, Polat Gulkan
Three cups of tea: building collaborations to assess earthquake hazard in Pakistan: modern methods in seismic hazard assessment; Nagarkot, Nepal, 8-12 June 2009 Three cups of tea: building collaborations to assess earthquake hazard in Pakistan: modern methods in seismic hazard assessment; Nagarkot, Nepal, 8-12 June 2009
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Susan E. Hough, Alan K. Yong
BSSA: Worth thinking about BSSA: Worth thinking about
The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is a powerful community project that has helped us share the information necessary to keep our field moving forward since 1911. In some ways, BSSA is much like it has always been, and each issue provides us with a collection of research that has been improved by the peer review process and copyedited, typeset, and printed to...
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Andrew J. Michael
Geometry of the Nojima fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan - I. A simple damage structure inferred from borehole core permeability Geometry of the Nojima fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan - I. A simple damage structure inferred from borehole core permeability
The 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-ken Nanbu) earthquake, M = 7.2, ruptured the Nojima fault in southwest Japan. We have studied core samples taken from two scientific drillholes that crossed the fault zone SW of the epicentral region on Awaji Island. The shallower hole, drilled by the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), was started 75 m to the SE of the surface trace of the Nojima fault and crossed the...
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David A. Lockner, Hidemi Tanaka, Hisao Ito, Ryuji Ikeda, Kentaro Omura, Hisanobu Naka
Stratigraphic controls on saltwater intrusion in the Dominguez Gap area of coastal Los Angeles Stratigraphic controls on saltwater intrusion in the Dominguez Gap area of coastal Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Basin is a densely populated coastal area that significantly depends on groundwater. A part of this groundwater supply is at risk from saltwater intrusion—the impetus for this study. High-resolution seismic-reflection data collected from the Los Angeles–Long Beach Harbor Complex have been combined with borehole geophysical and descriptive geological data from four nearby...
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Brian D. Edwards, Kenneth D. Ehman, Daniel J. Ponti, Eric G. Reichard, John Tinsley, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Michael T. Land