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Basic Safety Earthquake, 169
Basin effects, 82 , 193-194
see also Sediments and sedimentary basins
hazard analysis, 112 , 151 , 371 , 375
wave propagation, 193 , 194 , 302 , 311 , 375
Bathymetry, 137-140 , 217 , 224 , 357
Berkeley Digital Seismic Network, 185
Blind thrust faults, 84-85 (n.9), 128 , 129 , 208 , 225 , 226 , 228 , 356
Bolivia, 50 , 300
Borah Peak earthquake, 50 , 131-132
Boreholes, 99 , (n.112), 113 , 189 , 209 , 215 , 226 , 239 , 240 , 283 , 353 , 365-366 , 367 , 371 , 389-390 , 397
Bridges, 15 , 82 , 87 (n.27), 109 , 152-153 , 304 , 309
Brittleness, 46 , 108 , 256 , 300 , 385
brittle-ductile boundary, 36 , 47 , 48 , 231-233
crustal deformation, 1 , 11 , 26 , 269
volcano seismology, 198 , 199 , 201
Broadband instruments, 40 , 161 , 174 (n.101), 176 , 179 , 180 , 185 , 187 , 190 , 191 , 198 , 305 , 351 , 354 , 358
Building codes, 2 , 6 , 66-68 , 80 , 152 , 154-159 , 163 , 309
cost factors, 6
historical perspectives, 66-68 , 70-74
International Building Code, 113
performance-based engineering, 155-159
public education, 379-380
seismic hazard maps, 79 , 122
soil conditions and, 105 (n.162), 113 , 155 , 307-308
Uniform Building Code (UBC), 66 , 71 , 73 , 79 , 113 , 322
Buildings, 2 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 11 , 14 , 28 , 54 , 62 , 66 , 82 , 122 , 149 , 155 , 157 , 159 , 190 , 352 , 371 , 373 , 377 , 397
deformation, 157 , 377
foundations, 66 , 67 , 87 (n.27), 152 , 156
ground shaking, 67-68 , 70-71 , 73 , 152 , 157 , 158-159
high-rise buildings, 71 , 190
hospitals, 152 , 397
masonry buildings, 6 , 67 , 109
seismic hazard maps, 79 , 122
Building Seismic Safety Council, 153
Burridge-Knopoff spring-slider models, 260
C
Calaveras fault (California), 293 , 297
California, 2 , 6 , 67-69 , 71-73 , 75 , 77 , 78 , 82 , 123-129 , 193-196 , 206 , 213 , 222 , 228 , 240 , 266 , 267 , 268
see also Los Angeles, California;
San Andreas fault;
San Francisco, California
Alaskan earthquake, tsunamis, 44-45
engineering, 152-153 , 155 , 164
Global Positioning System (GPS), 203-205 , 210
Hayward fault, 85 (n.15), 123 , 128 , 293
hazard analysis, 14 , 60 , 114 , 123-129 , 131 , 152-153 , 363
San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), 189 , 280 , 354 , 364 , 366 , 368 , 374 , 382 , 392
Southern California Earthquake Center, 128 , 190 , 318 , 356 , 376
Hector Mine earthquake, 13 , 50 , 128 , 206 , 211 , 213
Imperial fault, 67 , 74 , 123 , 268 , 321 , 336 (n.100, n.104), 339 (n.127), 340 (n.132)
Landers earthquake, 50 , 128 , 207 , 272 , 296 , 297
Loma Prieta earthquake, 28 , 50 , 60 , 112 , 153 , 212 , 286 , 304
legislation, 67 , 118 , 153
Northridge earthquake, 50 , 73 , 111-112 , 118 , 131 , 156 , 187 , 289 , 309 , 312 , 322 , 323 , 379
Parkfield, 60 , 64 , 71 , 189 , 211 , 297 , 366
seismic networks, 180 , 185
subsidence, 114
warning systems, 161 , 162
California Division of Mines and Geology, 318
California Geological Survey, 190
California Integrated Seismic Network, 185
California Strong-Motion Instrument Program, 190
Canada, 186 , 190 , 212 , 229 , 355
Cataclastic processes, 26 , 238 , 276 , 278 , 366
Casualties, 62 , 149 , 376 , 379
Centroid moment tensor, 182 , 184
Characteristic earthquakes, 55 , 56 , 60 , 122 , 259 , 261 , 267 , 275 , 315-316 , 317-318 , 322 , 359