Earthquakes, September-October 1978
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 71-73
The months of September and October were somewhat quiet seismically speaking. One major earthquake, magnitude (M) 7.7 occurred in Iran on September 16. In Germany, a magntidue 5.0 earthquake caused damage and considerable alarm to many people in parts of that country. In the United States, the largest earthquake occurred...
The Southern California cooperative seismic network
G. Fuis, C. Allen
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 196-204
New Zealand and Antarctic seismology
G. Eiby
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 170-174
Changes in the seismicity of central California
J. P. Eaton
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 205-208
The earthquakes near Cadoux, Western Australia, June, 1979
H.A. Doyle
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 180-182
The history of seismometry to 1900
J. Dewey, P. Byerly
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 64-70
Monitoring seismic wave velocities in situ
T.V. McEvilly, R. Clymer
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 214-220
Beginning in the early 1960's, reports from the Soviet Union described travel-time anomalies of 5 to 20 percent preceding large earthquakes. In the early 970's, similar observations began to be reported outside the U.S.S.R. The most convincing were anomalously low values of the velocity ration, Vp/Vs, before four earthquakes of...
Electrical measurements as stress-strain monitors
T. R. Madden
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 4-8
Many of the measurements of phyiscal properties being made in earthquake prediction studies are based on the premise that these properties are influenced by stresses and strains, especially so near the failure point. Electrical properties of rocks are controlled by the fluid in the pores and cracks in the rocks....
Tsunami alerting systems
H.E. Clark Jr.
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 132-137
National Information Service for earthquake engineering
R.C. Denton, A. Donovan, K.K. Wong
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 141-142
Earthquakes; January-February, 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 143-147
The first major earthquake (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) of the year struck in southeastern Alaska in a sparsely populated area on February 28. On January 16, Iran experienced the first destructive earthquake of the year causing a number of casualties and considerable damage. Peru was hit by a destructive earthquake...
Earthquakes; July-August, 1978
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 26-29
Earthquake activity during this period was about normal. Deaths from earthquakes were reported from Greece and Guatemala. Three major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0-7.9) occurred in Taiwan, Chile, and Costa Rica. In the United States, the most significant earthquake was a magnitude 5.6 on August 13 in southern California. ...
Earthquakes; March-April, 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 183-186
This was a moderately active period, seismically speaking. Three major earthquakes having magnitudes (M) ranging from 7.0 to 7.9 to only one major quake during the first 2 months of the year. Major earthquakes struck in Mexico, Indonesia, and Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavian earthquake caused considerable damage and loss of life. In...
Earthquakes; May-June 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 236-238
The months of May and June were somewhat quiet, seismically speaking. There was one major earthquake in the South Pacific on MAy 1. The most destructive earthquake, causing loss of life, was in Indonesia on May 30. In the United States, the largest earthquakes were in Alaska but caused no damage....
The Parkfield prediction experiment
A. Lindh, P. Evans, P. Harsh, G. Buhr
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 209-213
The San Andreas fault is part of the boundary between the Pacific and North American crustal plates. In California, movements of about 3 centimeters per year are currently taking place along the fault, although plat tectonic models suggest a faster rate of 5 cm/yr may be the average over a...
Microearthquake networks and earthquake prediction
W.H.K. Lee, S. W. Steward
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 192-195
A microearthquake network is a group of highly sensitive seismographic stations designed primarily to record local earthquakes of magnitudes less than 3. Depending on the application, a microearthquake network will consist of several stations or as many as a few hundred . They are usually classified as either permanent or...
Computers at the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
J. Hoffman
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 138-140
The Worldwide Standardized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) is managed by the U.S Geological Survey in Albuquerque, N. Mex. It consists of a global network of seismographs housed in seismic observatories throughout the world. An important recent addition to this network are the Seismic Research Observatories (SRO) which combine a borehole seismometer...
Pomarine jaeger preys on adult black-legged kittiwake
George J. Divoky, Karen L. Oakley, H.R. Huber
1979, The Wilson Bulletin (91) 329-329
On 5 June 1977, while on a cruise in the decomposing pack ice in the Bering Sea, we observed a light phase Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus) attack, kill and feed on an adult Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), 1 of approximately 10 individuals within 20 m of the ship's stern. We...
Tufted Puffins nesting in estuarine habitat
Robert E. Gill Jr., Gerald A. Sanger
1979, The Auk (96) 792-794
The Tufted Puffin (Lunda cirrhata) apparently has the most extensive breeding distribution of any North Pacific seabird, extending in the western North Pacific from Hokkaido to the north Chukotsk Peninsula on the Chukchi Sea, and in North America from Cape Lisburne on the Chukchi Sea, south to the Farallon Islands...
Dispersal and migratory patterns of San Francisco Bay produced herons, egrets, and terns
Robert E. Gill Jr., L. Richard Mewaldt
1979, North American Bird Bander (4) 4-13
San Francisco Bay, California, including its fringing marshes, supports a large and diverse water related avifauna (Grinnell and Wythe 19271 Sibley 1952, Gill 1973, 1977). Certain of man's alterations of the Bay's shallower wetlands have resulted in increased habitat diversity which has allowed colonization by several species of birds including...
Nesting ecology of Arctic loons
Margaret R. Petersen
1979, The Wilson Bulletin (91) 608-617
Arctic Loons were studied on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, from the time of their arrival in May to their departure in September, in 1974 and 1975. Pairs arrived on breeding ponds as soon as sufficient meltwater was available to allow their take-off and landing. Loons apparently do not initiate nests...
Coccolith and silicoflagellate stratigraphy, northern mid-Atlantic Ridge and Reykjanes Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 49
David Bukry
1979, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (49) 551-581
Leg 49 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project recovered 192 cores at eight drilling sites, 407 through 414 (Figure 1). Light-microscope techniques were used to study the cocoliths, silicoflagellates, and sponge spicules of 120 samples from these cores. The cocolith zonation of the samples follows Bukry (1975a), and is summarized...
Geomagnetic paleointensities by the Thelliers' method from submarine pillow basalts: Effects of seafloor weathering
Sherman Gromme, Edward A. Mankinen, Monte Marshall, Robert S. Coe
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 3553-3575
Measurements of geomagnetic paleointensity using the Thelliers' double‐heating method in vacuum have been made on 10 specimens of submarine pillow basalt obtained from 7 fragments dredged from localities 700,000 years old or younger. In the magnetic minerals, the titanium/iron ratio parameter x and the cation deficiency (oxidation) parameter x were determined by X‐ray diffraction...
Drug metabolism in birds
Huo Ping Pan, James R. Fouts
1979, Pharmacology (19) 289-293
Papers published over 100 years since the beginning of the scientific study of drug metabolism in birds were reviewed. Birds were found to be able to accomplish more than 20 general biotransformation reactions in both functionalization and conjugation. Chickens were the primary subject of study but over 30 species of...
Revised geomagnetic polarity time scale for the interval 0–5 m.y. B.P.
Edward A. Mankinen, G. Brent Dalrymple
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 615-626
A change in the constants used in K‐Ar dating and a significant increase in new data have made a recompilation and recomputation of data used to define the Late Cenozoic K‐Ar polarity time scale highly desirable at this time. All available data in the range 0–5 m.y. have been recalculated...
