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Landsat wildland mapping accuracy
William J. Todd, Dale G. Gehring, J. F. Haman
1980, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (46) 509-520
A Landsat-aided classification of ten wildland resource classes was developed for the Shivwits Plateau region of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Single stage cluster sampling (without replacement) was used to verify the accuracy of each class....
Geoscientists for international development
David A. Hastings
1980, The British Geologist (6) 104-106
Professional societies are usually concerned with the advancement of scientific knowledge, but a relative newcomer to the international scene has a different focus - geoscience development in the Third World. David Hastings, a member of AGID, explains....
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Monitoring active volcanoes
R.I. Tilling
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 131-134
One of the most spectacular, awesomely beautiful, and at times, most destructive displays of natural energy is an erupting volcano, belching fume and ash thousands of feet into the atmoshpehere and pouring out red-hot molten lava in fountains and streams. ...
The earthquake educational institute at San Francisco State University
R. Sullivan, R. Pestrong, H. Strongin
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 174-176
The Earthquake Educational Institute was established in 1978 at San Francisco State University under a grant from the U.S National Science Foundation. The goal of the Institute is to develop earthquake-related curricula for use in elementary and secondary schools in the hope that, by educating students about earthquakes, they will...
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...
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...
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...
Tremors from earthquakes and blasting in the Powder River basin of Wyoming and Montana
C.H. Miller, F. W. Osterwald
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 212-219
Coal in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana (fig. 1) is greatly in demand. It can be economically mined from the surface, and the land is much easier to reclaim than land above underground mines that has been damaged by subsidence or by underground fires. Exploitation of the...