The Carlisle earthquake of December 26, 1979, in northern England
G. Neilson
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 71-73
At 3:57 a.m on the morning after Christmas Day 1979, a large area of northern England and southern Scotland was shaken by an earthquake. In the mesoseismal area, a few miles north of Carlisle, chimneys toppled into the streets or fell through roofs, and people ran in panic into the...
Andrija Mohorovicic
W.E. Bonini, R.R. Bonini
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 108-112
Earthquakes, September-October, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 74-77
The months of September and October were quite active, seismically speaking, compared to the previous 2 months. One great earthquake, a magnitude (M) 8.1, was centered in the West Irian region on September 12. Two major (M=7.0-7.9) earthquakes occurred, one on October 12, a M=7.3 off the west coast of...
Earthquakes, November-December, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (13) 113-116
Earthquakes, January-February, 1980
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 200-202
Girl Scouts promote earthquake awareness
C. Campbell
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 177-180
Earthquakes; a new unit in environmental education
R. D. Collyer
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 188-189
Mount St. Helens Volcano
D. R. Crandell, D. R. Mullineaux
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 135-140
Estimating earthquake potential
R.A. Page
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 16-24
The hazards to life and property from earthquakes can be minimized in three ways. First, structures can be designed and built to resist the effects of earthquakes. Second, the location of structures and human activities can be chosen to avoid or to limit the use of areas known to be...
Volcano hazards; lessons learned in the eastern Caribbean
R.S. Fiske
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 150-154
Charles F. Richter; an interview
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 4-8
Charles F. Richter, renowned seismologist, is a professor emeritus at the California Institue of techonology (Caltech). He is best known to the public for the Richter magnitude scale; but he is equally recognized in the scientific community for many other contributions to seismology including his books Elementary Seismology (1958) and...
Continuous monitoring of Mount St. Helens Volcano
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 220-227
Day by day monitoring of the Mount St. Helens Volcano. These are four scenarios, very different scenarios, that can occur in a average week at Mount St. Helens. Ranging from eruptions of gas and to steam to eruptions of ash and pyroclastic flows to even calm days. This example of...
Earthquake alarm; operating the seismograph station at the University of California, Berkeley.
B. Stump
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 88-97
An alarm bell rings at the seismographic station and at the office of the campus police. It is 3:00 on a foggy San Francisco morning. Somewhere in the world an earthquake has occurred. The police telephone the duty seismologist at home telling him that the alarm has triggered. He makes...
Earthquakes, January-February, 1980
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 200-202
Two major earthquakes (magntidue 7.0-7.9) occurred during this reporting period. The first struck in the North Atlantic Ocean in the Azores Islands on News Year's Day, causing fatalities and damage. The second major quake was on February 24 in the sparsely populated Kuril Islands of the northwest Pacific. A magnitude...
Earthquakes, July-August, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 36-39
There was one major (magnitude 7.0-7.9) earthquake during this reporting period. The quake occurred on August 26 in the Philippine Islands. Strong or damaging earthquakes, which struck many parts of the world, caused casualties and damage; deaths were reported in China and Kashmir, and damaging earthquakes occurred in Costa Rica,...
Earthquakes; March-April 1980
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 228-231
Two of the three major (7.0-7.9) earthquakes during this reporting period occurred in the South Pacific on March 8 and April 13. The third, in the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, on March 23, was the first major earthquake of the year in the United States. In the State of Washington,...
Sir Harold Jeffreys
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 48-53
Sir Harold Jeffreys is a world authority in theoretical geophyiscs. hew as born in Northumbria (northeast of England) and educated at Armstrong College (now the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Cambridge University. He is now a Senior Fellow of St.John's College, Cambridge. He has published over 300 scientific papers and is...
Seismology in South America; an interview with Alberto Giesecke
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 64-70
Dr. Alberto A. Giesecke is head of the Instituto Geofisico del Peru, in Lima, Peru, and Director of Centro Regional de Sismologia para America del Sur (CERESIS). The center is dedicated to the coordination and promotion of earthquake hazard mitigation. Dr. Giesecke was President of the National Research Council of...
Seismology at the Australian National University; an interview with Anton L. Hales
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 54-59
Dr. Anton L. Hales is a leading seismologist who has just retired as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. Prior to that, he headed the Geosciences Division at the University of Texas at Dallas, and, before that, he was Director of...
Earthquakes, November-December, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 113-116
The last 2 months of the year were quite active, seismically speaking. Damaging earthquakes were expereinced in Indonesia, including Java, Sumatra, and Bali, and in Greece, Iran, and the Fiji Islands. Colombia expereinced two earthquakes; the most destructive was a magnitude 7.9 on December 12 that killed 600 people. In the...
Earthquake prediction in the Soviet Union; an interview with I. L. Nersesov
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 60-63
Dr. I. L. Nersesov is a seismologist with the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow. He is one of the leaders in the Soviet national program of earthquake prediction. ...
The size of earthquakes
H. Kanamori
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 10-15
How we should measure the size of an earthquake has been historically a very important, as well as a very difficult, seismological problem. For example, figure 1 shows the loss of life caused by earthquakes in recent times and clearly demonstrates that 1976 was the worst year for earthquake casualties...
A grassroots movement in Glendora, California
S. Jagoda
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 185-187
DeLaine Morgan is a teacher at Sandburg Junior High School in Glendora, Calif. Because of her efforts, the Glendora Unified School District is establishing an earthquake preparedness program in each of the District's schools. The following interview relates how this program got started and what individuals can do to get...
The Southern California uplift revisited
R. A. Kerr
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 98-103
The earthquake that struck Livermore, east of San Francisco, on January 24 was the second moderate earthquake to have occurred in the San Francisco Bay area in 5 months. It raised familiar questions. Does this mean that the "Big One" is coming? Is the theater of heightened concern now in...
Calculation of estuarine residual currents using the finite element method
R. A. Walters, R. T. Cheng
1980, Conference Paper, Third International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems
No abstract available....
