Preliminary catalog of earthquakes in southern California, October 1976-September 1977
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Abstract
There has been a continuing demand on the part of many persons, institutions, commercial companies, government agencies, and so forth for up-to-date maps and tables of earthquakes in southern California. Unfortunately, final catalogs of earthquakes such as Hileman and others (1973), Hill and others (1975a), and Friedman and others (1976) lag in publication as long as two years beyond the end of the recording periods which they cover, owing to the time-consuming process of re-reading seismograms to improve earthquake locations. It is, thus, the intent of this report to make public a preliminary version of the catalog(s) that will cover the period October 1976 -September 1977. This catalog is similar to that of Fuis and others (1977) which covers a prior period of time from June 1974 -September 1976.
The three most serious problems with this catalog are 1) incomplete reporting of earthquake magnitudes, 2) use of more than one crustal model for locating earthquakes in a given area, and 3) inclusion of blasts. These problems will be corrected for the final catalog(s), but we felt that they should not hold up release of this preliminary catalog.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Preliminary catalog of earthquakes in southern California, October 1976-September 1977 |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 78-672 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr78672 |
| Year Published | 1978 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Description | 84 p. |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Other Geospatial | southern California |
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