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Earthquake Risk Reduction

Book by David J. Dowrick; Wiley, 2003

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Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Resistant Design

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...and farms as a function of intensity in the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake. Earthq Eng and Struc Dyn...The Modified Mercalli earthquake intensity scale-Revisions...recent studies of New Zealand earthquakes. Bull NZ Nat Soc Earthq...106. Dowrick DJ (1998) Earthquake risk for property and people...
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Illusions of Safety: Culture and Earthquake Hazard Response in California and Japan

Book by Risa Palm, John Carroll; Westview Press, 1998

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Disaster Relief--California--Planning--Public Opinion, Disaster Relief--Japan--Planning--Public Opinion, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--California, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--Japan, Earthquakes--Califiornia--Safety Measures--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--California--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Safety Measures--Public Opinion

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...the Great Kanto Tokyo earthquake of 1923 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995. In the United States, three earthquakes are described: the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 causing great...earthquake measured 8.3 in intensity on the Richter scale...
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Earthquake Insurance: A Longitudinal Study of California Homeowners

Book by Risa Palm; Westview Press, 1995

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Insurance, Earthquake--California--Longitudinal Studies

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...describe the energy in an earthquake. By Richter scale measurements, very few earthquakes exceed a magnitude of 8...descriptive way of measuring earthquake damage is the use of an intensity scale -- a subjective scale...This scale classifies earthquake damage on a scale of 1 to...
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The Lisbon Earthquake

Book by T. D. Kendrick; J. B. Lippincott, 1957

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Lisbon (Portugal)--Earthquake, 1755

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...not alter the fact that the earthquake alone did enormous...the Igreja da Se after the earthquake shows an almost complete...measure the effect of the earthquake on that day by a modern scale of seismic intensity.
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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction

Book by Susan Hough; Princeton University Press, 2009

Subjects:

Earthquake Prediction

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...by an earthquake, every earthquake will generate a distribution of intensities, with highest values generally...convention we refer to intensity values with Roman numerals...damage. Determining the intensity distributions for the New...quakes and comparing them to intensities generated by more recent earthquakes, Nuttli estimated magnitudes...

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Bayesian Analysis of Time Evolution of Earthquakes

Journal article by Mario Peruggia, Thomas Santner; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 91, 1996

Subjects:

Bayesian analysis--Research, Bayesian statistical decision theory--Research, Earthquake intensity--Models, Sampling (Statistics)--Case studies, Statistical sampling--Case studies

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...Time Evolution of Earthquakes. by Mario Peruggia...for the conditional intensity of the point process...time evolution of earthquake activity. This approach...process modeling of earthquakes has been restricted...Model for Historical Earthquakes," Annals of the...Statistical Models for Earthquake Occurrences and Residual...1982), "On Linear Intensity Models for Mixed...
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Estimating Economic Losses in the Bay Area from a Magnitude-6.9 Earthquake

Journal article by Richard J. Holden, Donna Bahls, Charles Real; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 130, 2007

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Surveys, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Surveys, Wages and salaries--Surveys, Wages--Surveys

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...delineates the shaking intensity zones that would...magnitude-6.9 earthquake. As is apparent...onto the shaking intensity zones. As can be...greatest shaking intensities. The BayArea. Table...experience shaking intensities of level MMI VIII...magnitude-6.9
earthquake along the Hayward...Alameda County Shaking intensity areas Item County...
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Stochastic Declustering of Space-Time Earthquake Occurrences

Journal article by Jiancang Zhuang, Yosihiko Ogata, David Vere-Jones; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, 2002

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Earth movements (Geology)--Research, Earth movements--Research, Earthquake prediction--Research, Geology

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...effect, and background intensity. We can see that the clustering...estimates of the background intensity in Figure 4(d). Those...Hanto-Oki, and 1995 Kobe earthquakes. In contrast, the background...almost the same as the total intensities in the Wakayama and Ibaragi...the estimated background intensity and the branching structure...Algorithm 2 1. For each earthquake j = 1, 2, ..., N...
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Living with Earthquakes: Beliefs and Information

Journal article by Gary J. Lechliter, Frank N. Willis; The Psychological Record, Vol. 46, 1996

Subjects:

Danger perception--Research, Earthquakes--Public opinion

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...1993). Selective earthquakes recorded on the southeast...of the Center for Earthquake Studies. Cape Girardeau...1988). Date with an earthquake: Coping with a probable...future New Madrid earthquakes: A central US intensity scale "CUSEIS" for pre-earthquake planning (2nd ed...
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Multidimensional Residual Analysis of Point Process Models for Earthquake Occurrences

Journal article by Frederic Paik Schoenberg; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 98, 2003

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Earthquake engineering--Research, Earthquake engineering--Statistics, Statistics (Data)--Methods, Statistics--Methods

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...as the conditional intensity rather than the conditional...destructiveness of an earthquake. There are numerous...magnitude models for earthquake occurrences; for...the principle that earthquakes are clustered due...colinearity of most of the earthquake locations. For instance...locations of the larger earthquakes and then replace...and obtaining an intensity estimate ^.lambda...

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Earthquake!

Magazine article; Popular Science, Vol. 250, June 1997

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Earthquakes, Seismology

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...seismograph for measuring earthquakes. Dragon figures...compass. When an earthquake struck, a pendulum...ball. In 1902, an earthquake intensity scale was created...magnitude or size of an earthquake s ground waves is...percent of the worlds earthquakes occur in a zone surrounding...
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Silent Witnesses Seismic Sagas: Chilean Scientists Are Studying Historic Accounts of Earthquakes for Clues That Will Help Them Predict the Size and Timing of Future Eruptions

Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, March 2006

Subjects:

Chile--Environmental aspects, Earthquakes--Chile, Earthquakes--Forecasts and trends, Scientists--Research, Seismological research

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...incorrectly, opined, "This earthquake is nothing new. ... The...measure the magnitude of an earthquake, and particularly before...indirect measurements of intensity, by quantifying an earthquakes effect on manmade dwellings...commonly used measure of earthquake intensity is the Mercalli...
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Earthquake! a Global Strategy for Earthquake Risk

Magazine article by Elwood Smietana; Risk Management, Vol. 43, March 1996

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Guidelines, International, Risk assessment, Risk exposure, Risk management, United States

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...level), and the intensity of shaking, which...Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI). The MMI...estimate the severity of earthquake damage, is more subjective...released during an earthquake. Although there are...designed to resist earthquakes can occur when g levels...to structures with earthquake protection measures...
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Rocking and Rolling: Earthquakes outside California

Magazine article by Judith M. Tornese, Virginia Lawson; Risk Management, Vol. 44, May 1997

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Buildings, Contingency planning, Earthquakes, Guidelines, Insurance coverage, Pacific Bell, Risk assessment, Risk exposure, Transamerica Corp, United States

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...greatest risk from earthquakes due to the lack of...would distribute high intensities over much greater...7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake would create damage...the Rockies. Large earthquakes may happen more often...Modified Mercali Intensity scale, which measures...major destructive earthquakes east of the Rockies...National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research...
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Earthquake: the Risk of Disaster

Magazine article; Risk Management, Vol. 42, April 1995

Subjects:

California, Earthquakes, Risk management, United States

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...hundreds of small earthquakes since the Great Earthquake of 1906 devastated the city. Earthquakes strong enough to...that measures the intensity of earthquakes hit San Francisco...impact of the 1906 earthquake at 7.8. In 1950...

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Intensity 4.8 Earthquake Hits Butuan, Other Areas

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 19, 2007

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Government business enterprises, Public enterprises

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Intensity 4.8 Earthquake Hits Butuan, Other Areas. Byline...the streets when an Intensity 4.8 earthquake struck Northeastern Mindanao at 1...sought refuge in the street when the earthquake of tectonic origin hit this capital...
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5.3 Earthquake Hits Mindanao

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 15, 2010

Subjects:

Earthquake intensity, Earthquakes, Seismology

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...Hits Mindanao. Another earthquake hit Mindanao for the second...felt at moderately strong Intensity IV in Davao City, where...doors rattle.PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale described that Intensity 4 earthquakes are generally felt by people...slightly.The tectonic earthquake was also felt at Intensity...
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Magnitude 3.1 Earthquake Recorded in Leyte

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 24, 2009

Subjects:

Earthquake intensity, Earthquakes, Richter scale

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Magnitude 3.1 Earthquake Recorded in Leyte. Leyte...magnitude 3.1 tectonic earthquake, the Philippine Institute...Tacloban City registered Intensity 2 in the intensity scale...refers to the energy of the earthquake registered on the Richter...that there are around 20 earthquakes that hit the country daily...
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School Buildings among Worst Affected by Earthquake; CHINA DIARIES

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 3, 2008

Subjects:

Earthquake intensity, Earthquakes, School buildings, Sichuan, China, Earthquake, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...School Buildings among Worst Affected by Earthquake; CHINA DIARIES. Byline: Christian...confirmed death toll from the Sichuan earthquake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter...cocooned in safe European homes, but the earthquake itself was just the start of the nightmare...
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Homeowners Shaken as Earthquake Shatters Calm

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 24, 2011

Subjects:

Earthquake intensity, Earthquakes--United Kingdom, Homeowners

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...get three magnitude 3.5-plus earthquakes in just a little over 30 days. We usually get a magnitude 3.5 earthquake somewhere in the UK around every 12-18 months. However, earthquakes can also behave in a more random...parts of the world, three such earthquakes in a short period of time would not be at all unusual. The largest earthquake recorded in the UK happened in the...

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Earthquake

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In certain areas, an earthquake can trigger mudslides...habitations below. A submarine earthquake can cause a tsunami , a...ripple outward from the earthquake epicenter and inundate coastal cities. Major Earthquakes On average about 1,000 earthquakes with intensities of 5.0 or greater are...year. Great earthquakes (intensity 8.0 or higher) occur...
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Richter Scale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...from the seismograph to the earthquakes epicenter. Numbers for...upper limit exists. An earthquake whose magnitude is greater...other structures; severe earthquakes have magnitudes greater...The famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was 7.8 on the...losing energy, with the intensity of earth movement and ground...
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Pendulum

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...used to determine the shape and mass of the earth by measuring the intensity of gravity. In the seismograph (see seismology ), a pendulum registers the direction of an earthquake. In 1851, J. B. L. Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the...

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