(USGS logo)

Review of seismic-hazard issues associated with the Auburn Dam project, Sierra Nevada foothills, California

By USGS Auburn Project Review Team 1

U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 96-0011


REFERENCES

Abrahamson, N.A. and Litehiser, J.J., 1989, Attenuation of vertical peak acceleration: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 549-580

Anderson, L.W., and O'Connell, D.R., 1993, Seismotectonic study of the northern portion of the lower Colorado River, Arizona, California, and Nevada (Seismotectonic Rep. No. 93-4): U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver.

Bozorgnia, Y., Niazi, M., and Campbell, K. W., 1995, Characteristics of free-field vertical ground motion during the Northridge earthquake: Earthquake Spectra, v. 11, p. 515-525.

Cominakis, P., J. Drakopoulos, G. Moumoulidis, and B. Papazachos, 1968, Foreshock and aftershock sequences of the Cremasta earthquake and their relation to the waterloading of the Cremasta artificial lake, Annali di Geofisica, v. 21, p. 39-71.

California Division of Mines and Geology, 1979, Technical review of the seismic safety of the Auburn dam site: Special Publication 54, 17 pp.

Harris, R.A., and Simpson, R.W. 1992, Changes in static stress on southern California faults after the 1992 Landers earthquake: Nature, v. 360, p. 251-254.

Harris, R.A., and Simpson, R.W., 1996, In the shadow of 1857-the effect of the great Ft. Tejon earthquake on subsequent earthquakes in southern California: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 23, p. 229-232.

Harris, R.A., Simpson, R.W., and Reasenberg, P.A., 1995, Influence of static stress changes on earthquake locations in southern California: Nature, v. 375, p. 221-224.

Hill, D.P., Reasenberg, P. A., Michael. A., Arabasz, W.J., Beroza, G., Brumbaugh, D., Brune, J.N., Castro, R., Davis, S., dePolo, D., Ellsworth, W. L., Gomberg, J., Harmsen, S., House, L., Jackson, S. M., Johnston, J. S., Jones, L., Keller, R., Malone, S., Munguia, L., Nava, S., Pechmann, J. C., Sanford, A., Simpson, R. W., 1993, Seismicity remotely triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake: Science, v. 260, p. 1617-1623.

Jennings, C.W., 1994, Fault activity map of California and adjacent areas: California Division of Mines and Geology, map no. 6.

King, G.C.P., Stein, R.S., and Lin, J., 1994, Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, p. 935-953.

McGarr, A., 1991, On a possible connection between three major earthquakes in California and oil production: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p. 948-970.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1994, Characterization of potential earthquake sources for Rock Creek (Drum) Dam, report for FERC 2310, Drum Spaulding Project State Dam No. 97-43, 89 p. + plates & figures.

Ragosti, B.K., 1994: Latur earthquake: Not triggered, in H.K. Gupta, ea., Latur Earthquake, p. 131-138, Memoir 35, Geological Society of India.

Roeloffs, E.A., 1988, Fault stability changes induced beneath a reservoir with cyclic variations in water level: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 93, p. 2107-2124.

Savage, W.U., Page, W.D., McLaren, M.K., and Edwards, W.D., 1991, Approach to seismic hazard analysis for dam safety in the Sierra Nevada and Modoc plateau of California: Proceedings of Canadian Dam Safety Conference, September l991,Canadian Dam Safety Association,p.203-219, BiTech Publishers, Ltd., Vancouver, 404 p.

Scholz, C.H., 1990, The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Cambridge University Press, 439 p.

Schwartz, D.P., 1988, Geologic characterization of seismic sources: moving into the 1990's: in von Thun, L., ea., Earthquake engineering and soil dynamics II--Recent advances in ground motion evaluation, American Society of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Special Publication 20, p. 1-42.

Schwartz, D.P., and Coppersmith, K.J., 1986, Seismic hazards: new trends in analysis using geologic data: in Active Tectonics, National Academy Press, p. 215-230.

Seeber, L., Ekstrom, G., Jain, S.K., Murty, C.V.R., Chandak, N., and Armbruster, J.G., 1995, The 1993 Killari earthquake in central India: A new fault in Mesozoic basalt flows? Journal of Geophysical Research, p. 100, in press.

Segall, P., 1985, Stress and subsidence resulting from subsurface fluid withdrawal in the epicenter region of the 1983 Coalinga earthquake: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 90, p. 6801-6816.

Segall, P., 1992, Induced stresses due to fluid extraction from axisymmetric reservoirs, PAGEOPH, v. 139, p. 535-560.

Segall, P., Grasso, J.R., and Mossop, A., 1994, Poroelastic stressing and induced seismicity near the Lacq gas field, southwestern France, Journal of Geophysical Research v. 99, p. 15,423-15,438.

Simpson, D.W. and Leith, W., 1985, The 1976 and 1984 Gazli, USSR, earthquakes-were they induced?: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 75, p. 1465-1468.

Simpson, D.W. and Negmatullaev, S.K., 1981, Induced seismicity at Nurek Reservoir, Tadjikistan, USSR, Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 71, p. 1561-1586.

Simpson, D.W., 1986, Triggered earthquakes, Annual Rev. Earth and Planetary Science, v. 14, p. 21-42.

Simpson, D.W., Gharib, A.A., and Kebeasy, R.M., 1990, Induced seismicity and changes in water level at Aswan Reservoir, Egypt: Gerlans Beitr. Geophysik Leipzig, v. 99, p. 191-204.

Simpson, D.W., Leith, W.S. and Scholz, C.H., 1988, Two types of reservoir-induced seismicity: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 75, p. 2025-2040.

Slemmons, D.B., 1977, Faults and earthquake magnitude, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experimental Station, Miscellaneous Papers S-73-1, Report 6, p. 1-129.

Spudich, P. Hellweg, M., Fletcher, J.B., Hanks, T.C., McGarr, A., Joyner, W.B., Baker, L.M., Sullivan, C., Boore, D.M., and Boatwright, J., 1996, Earthquake ground motions in extensional tectonic regimes: Report to Yucca Mountain Project Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, in review.

Stein, R.S., King, G.C.P. and Lin, J., 1992, Change in failure stress on the southern San Andreas fault system caused by the 1992 Magnitude=7.4 Landers earthquake: Science, v. 258, p. 1328-1332.

Talwani, P. and Acree, S., 1985, Pore-pressure diffusion and the mechanism of reservoir induced seismicity, PAGEOPH, v. 122, p. 947-965.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1991, Feasibility report, American River Watershed Investigation, California, Dec. 1991: Report accompanied by 8 vol. of Appendices.

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1995, Draft Supplemental Information Report, American River Watershed Project, California, Aug. 1995: Report accompanied by 5 vol. of Appendices.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1990, Auburn Dam interim construction geology report, 249 pp. + plates.

U.S. Geological Survey, 1978, Technical Review of Earthquake Evaluation Studies of the Auburn Dam area (Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 1977): Report to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, July, 1978, 143 p.

Wells, D.L. and Coppersmith, K.J., 1994, New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, p. 974-1002.

Westaway, R., and Smith, R. B., 1989, Strong ground motion in normal-faulting earthquakes: Geophysical Journal, v. 96, p. 529-559.

Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 1977, Earthquake evaluation studies of the Auburn Dam area, Report to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Contract No. 6/07/DS/72090, Auburn- Folsom South Unit, Central Valley Project, California, 8 vol.

Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities, 1990, Probabilities of large earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay region, California. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1053, 51p.

Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities, 1995, Seismic hazards in California: probable earthquakes, 1994-2024, Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, p. 379-439.

Zoback, M.D. and Hickman, S., 1982, In situ study of the physical mechanisms controlling induced seismicity at Monticello Reservoir, South Carolina: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 87, p. 6959-6974.


BACK TO:

1D.P. Schwartz, W.B. Joyner, R.S. Stein, R.D. Brown, A.F. McGarr, S.H. Hickman, and W.H. Bakun, all at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

URL: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-011/ref.html
Contact: webmaster@maildcascr.wr.usgs.gov