Static Index

A

Abella, Sally

acceleration: peak horizontal acceleration; strong-motion instrument

accretionary wedge

Adams, John Adel, Oregon, Earthquakes of 1968

aftershocks; aftershock or foreshock? See also foreshock

Alaska, Gulf of, Earthquake of 1964; liquefaction accompanying; tectonic subsidence; tsunami accompanying, see tsunami

Allen, Clarence

Allen, Richard

anticline

Archuleta, Ralph

asteroid impact probability

asthenosphere

Astoria Submarine Canyon and Channel

Atwater, Brian

 

B

Bakun, Bill

Barberopoulou, Aggeliki

basalt. See also Columbia River Basalt

base isolation

Basin and Range

Beeson, Marvin

Bellevue, Washington, earthquake program

benchmark, survey

Bend, Oregon, faults

Benioff zone earthquakes. See slab earthquakes

Bentley, Bob

Blakely, Rick

Blanco Fracture Zone

Bonneville Landslide

Bourgeois, Joanne

Bradley Lake, Oregon

Brady, Brian

bridges, damage to

British Columbia earthquake programs

brittle-ductile transition

brittle fracture

brittle structures

Brocher, Tom

Browning, Iben

Bruer, Wes

Bucknam, Bob

building codes; increased cost for earthquake strengthening; International Building Code; lives vs. property protection; National Building Code of Canada. See also Uniform     Building Code; California building codes; Oregon Structural Specialty Code

buried forests and marshes. See Cascadia Subduction Zone

Burns, Scott

buttress

 

C

California Alquist-Priolo Act

California building codes. See also building codes

California Geological Survey (formerly Division of Mines and Geology); Strong Motion Instrumentation Program

California Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program

California Earthquake Authority

California Office of Emergency Services: Disaster Office; California Seismic Safety Commission

California Seismic Mapping Act

Caltrans Campbell, Newell

Canadian government-sponsored earthquake research. See also Geological Survey of Canada; Pacific Geoscience Centre

Cape Mendocino Earthquake of 1992. See Petrolia Earthquake

Carson, Bob

Carver, Deborah

Carver, Gary

Cascade volcanoes

Cascadia deep-sea channel

Cascadia Earthquake of A.D. 1700; tsunami

Cascadia earthquakes, pre-A.D. 1700

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup

Cascadia Subduction Zone; acceleration due to earthquake on, 195-97, 216; deterministic forecast on; eastward-convex arch; insurance against, 234; marsh evidence for earthquakes; probabilistic forecast on

Central Nevada Seismic Zone

Chelan, Washington, Earthquake of 1951

Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake of 1999

Chile Earthquake of 1960; tsunami in Japan

chimney damage

China, earthquake predictions

Coalinga Earthquake of 1983

Coast Range

Cocos Plate

Columbia River Basalt

Community Internet Intensity Map

connection failure

Continental shelf

Coos Bay, Oregon, buried marshes

Copalis River, Olympic Peninsula

Coppersmith, Kevin

Corvallis Fault

COSMOS

Creager, Ken

Crescent City, California, tsunami of 1964

cripple wall

critical facility

Crosson, Robert

crust of the Earth; continental crust; oceanic crust; brittle crust; ductile crust

 

D

Dam, Van Norman

Darrington-Devils Mountain Fault

Deming, Washington, Earthquake of 1990

Denali, Alaska, Earthquake of 2002

design of large structures: base isolation; bridges and overpasses; special problems

disclosure requirements

Dragert, Herb

duck, cover, and hold

ductile deformation

ductile structures

Duvall, Washington, Earthquake of 1996

 

E

earthquake hazard maps; in California; of Oregon cities; of Seattle and Olympia; of Victoria, BC

earthquakes: characteristic; cluster; control of; drills; education; implementation and outreach; interaction among faults; loss of market share due to; media response to;     precursors; preparedness for; recurrence of; resistance to, for large buildings; slow earthquakes;

earthquake engineering; engineering geologist; Earthquake Engineering Research Institute; performance-based

East Pacific Rise

elasticity; elastic deformation; elastic rebound

Ellsworth, Bill

epicenter

excavations across faults

Explorer Plate; earthquakes in

Explorer Ridge

 

F

Fairweather, Alaska, Earthquake, and landslide of 1958

Farallon Plate

Faris, Roger

fault: blind; dip-slip; displacement; fault-plane solution; fault map of Oregon; normal; reverse; strike-slip; surface rupture; thrust; transform. See also slip rate on faults

Federal Response Plan

FEMA. See U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency

Filson, John

floods of 1996

focus; focal depth

footwall

forecasting, earthquake; deterministic; probabilistic; probability forecast for San Francisco Bay region; time of increased [earthquake] probability

foreshock

foundation, bolting to

fracture zones

Fraser River Delta

 

G

Geller, Robert

geodesy

geologic time

Geological Survey of Canada

geotechnical engineering

glacial ice caps; lowered sea level because of Global Positioning System (GPS); Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array (PANGA); Western Canada Deformation Array

Goldfinger, Chris

Gorda Plate; earthquakes in

Gorda Ridge

Gower, Howard

grading ordinances. See also Uniform Building Code granite

Grant, Wendy

Greece, earthquake prediction

Griffin, Wally

Griggs, Gary

ground displacement, engineering against

Gulf of California spreading center

Gutenberg-Richter relationship; for Puget Sound-Georgia Strait region

 

H

Hanford Nuclear Reservation; Basalt Waste Isolation Project

hanging wall

Harris, Ruth

hazard; vs. peril; vs. risk

Heaton, Tom

Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake and landslide of 1959

Heceta Bank, Oregon

Hemphill-Haley, Eileen

Hemphill-Haley, Mark

highway leveling

Holocene

home retrofit against earthquakes; preparedness

Hope, B.C., landslide of 1965

hospitals, damage to

Humboldt Bay, California

Hull, Don

Hurricanes: Andrew; Isabel

hydrophone arrays. See T-phase waves

Hyndman, Roy

hypocenter. See focus

 

I

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Indian Earthquake of 1897

Indians. See Native Americans

inertia

Institute of Building and Home Safety

insurance, earthquake; adverse selection; capacity; catastrophic; claims; computer models; cost-based; deductible; government intervention; homeowners’ insurance; indemnity; liability; Natural Disaster Coalition; premium; probable maximum loss; proof of loss; reinsurance; reserves; risk; state department of insurance; surplus; underwriting

intensity; intensity scale

inventory, home

 

J

Jackson, Dave

Jacoby, Gordon

Jahns, Richard

Japan: civilization; government-sponsored earthquake research; tsunamis

Jibson, Randy

Johnson, Sam

Juan de Fuca Plate

Juan de Fuca Ridge

Juan de Fuca submarine canyon

 

K

Kagan, Yan

Kanamori, Hiroo

Karlin, Bob

Keefer, David

Keilis-Borok, V. I.

Kelsey, Harvey

Klamath Falls, Oregon, Earthquakes of 1993: landslides and rockfalls

Kobe, Japan, Earthquake of 1995

Krakatau, Indonesia, eruption and tsunami of 1883

Kulm, LaVerne

 

L

Lake Washington: trees beneath; sediment cores in

Landers, California, Earthquake of 1992

landslides; induced by heavy rains; submarine. See also rockslides

lateral spread

Law of Large Numbers. See also insurance

Liberty, Lee

LiDAR mapping

Lima, Peru, Earthquake of 1981, prediction

Lindh, Allan

liquefaction

lithosphere

Little Salmon Fault

loads

Loma Prieta Earthquake, vii; attempts to forecast; foreshocks; liquefaction accompanying

 Long Beach, California, Earthquake of 1933

Los Angeles Basin

Ludwin, Ruth

 

M

Macelwane, James

Mad River Fault

Madin, Ian

magnitude, intensity magnitude, moment magnitude, surface-wave magnitude. See also Richter magnitude

magnitude 8 vs. 9 at Cascadia

Malone, Steve

Mantle

manufactured homes

maps: of earthquake hazard, see earthquake hazard maps; of tsunami hazard, see tsunami

marine platform. See wave-cut platform

masonry grades. See also unreinforced masonry

maximum considered (credible) earthquake

Mazzotti, Stephan

McCrory, Pat

McKay, Mary

McNeill, Lisa

Mendocino Fracture Zone; earthquakes in; triple junction

Merten, Diane

Mexico City Earthquake: of 1978, of 1985

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Miller, Meghan

Milton-Freewater, Oregon, Earthquake of 1936

Minor, Rick

Missoula floods

Mitchell, Clifton

mitigation, 300 mobile homes. See manufactured homes

Modoc Point, Oregon, rockfall

Mt. Mazama eruption and ash

Mt. Rainier: mudflows

seismic zone

Mt. St. Helens; network; rock avalanche and mudflow; seismic zone

Moho discontinuity

Mohoroviˇci´c, Andrija

Mount Angel Fault

 

N

Nábeˇlek, John

Nankai, Japan, Subduction Zone; Tokai prediction experiment

NASA. See U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 5000)

National Institute of Building Sciences

National Science Foundation. See U.S. National Science Foundation

Native Americans; Bridge of the Gods legend; buried campsite; Seattle Fault stories

NAVSTAR satellites. See Global Positioning System neighborhood plan

Nelson, Alan

Nelson, Hans

Neumann, Frank

Newell, Chuck

New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquake of 1990, prediction

New Zealand: Earthquake Commission; earthquake insurance

Nisqually Earthquake of 2001

NOAA. See U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nootka Fracture Zone

North America Plate

North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

North Cascades Earthquake of 1872

Northridge Earthquake of 1994, vii; media coverage of

Nuclear test-ban compliance

 

O

Obermeier, Steve

Olsen, Kim

Olympic Mountains

Olympic-Wallowa Lineament

Oregon Academy of Sciences

Oregon-California Border Earthquake of 1873

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Oregon Department of Transportation

Oregon Office of Emergency Management

Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup

Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission

Oregon State University baccalaureate core curriculum, vii-viii Oregon Structural Specialty Code

Oroville, California, Earthquake of 1975

Othello, Washington, earthquake swarm of 1987

Owens Valley, California, Earthquake of 1872

 

P

Pacific Geoscience Centre

Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network

Pacific Plate

paleoseismology

Palmdale Bulge

PANGA. See Global Positioning System

Parkfield, California, forecast

Pasco Basin, Washington

Personius, Stephen

Peru Earthquake and landslide of 1970

Peterson, Curt

Petrolia, California, Earthquake of 1992

Pezzopane, Silvio

Plafker, George

plate tectonics

Pleasant Valley, Nevada, Earthquake of 1915

Pleistocene Epoch. See also glacial ice caps

Portland, Oregon, earthquakes of 1877 and 1962

Portland Hills Fault

Pratt, Tom

prediction, earthquake

Presidential Major Disaster Declaration

Preston, Leiph

Priest, George

Pringle, Pat

probability curve. See forecasting

psychological issues with earthquakes

Puget Sound slab earthquakes; of 1939, 1949, 1965; lack of aftershocks; landslides accompanying. See also Nisqually Earthquake, Satsop Earthquake

 

Q

Queen Charlotte Fault

 

R

radar interferometry

radiocarbon dating; reservoir correction

Rasmussen, Norm

Red Cross

red-tagged and yellow-tagged buildings

Redwood Coast Earthquake Study Group

Reid, Harry

resonance (tuning fork) problem

retrofit; of historic buildings

Richter, Charles: Richter magnitude scale

risk. See hazard, insurance

Rivera Plate

rock site

rockslides, earthquake-induced: Olympic Peninsula, Ribbon Cliffs, Washington. See also Modoc Point

Rogers, Garry

Rogue River Submarine Canyon

 

S

San Andreas Fault; prehistoric earthquakes on; 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake

San Fernando Earthquake of 1971. See Sylmar Earthquake

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906; insurance claims

sand dikes; at Centralia, Washington; sand boils and sand blows

Santa Barbara, California, Earthquake of 1925

Satake, Kenji

Satsop, Washington, Earthquake of 1999

Savage, Jim

schools: building codes for; damage to; preparedness plans and retrofits

Schuster, Bob

Schwartz, Dave

Scotts Mills, Oregon, Earthquake of 1993

SDART (Seattle) program

Seattle Fault: earthquake of A.D. 900-930; seismic waves focused on; tsunami from

seiche

seismic gap theory

seismic safety element of general plan

seismic sea wave. See tsunami

seismic waves; attenuation; P waves; S waves; surface vs. body waves

seismic zones (for building codes)

seismicity

seismograph: Gonzaga College, Wood-Anderson

Seismological Society of America

ShakeMap

shear walls

Sherrod, Brian

Sherrod, Dave

shoreline angle

side-scan sonar

Simpson, Bob

Sixes River, Oregon

slab earthquakes: rare aftershocks

slip rate on faults

Slosson’s Law

soft story

soil site

soils engineer. See geotechnical engineering

SOSUS. See T-phase waves

South American tsunami earthquakes

Southern California Earthquake Center

Southern Whidbey Island Fault

South Sister volcano, uplift

Sovanco Fracture Zone

space-based geodesy. See Global Positioning System

Spence, William

Spokane, Washington, earthquake swarm of 2001

spreading centers

Spring Break Quake. See Scotts Mills Earthquake

Standard Penetration Test

state of the art vs. standard of practice

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Stein, Ross

Steinbrugge, Karl

Stonewall Bank, Oregon, anticline

strain

stress

strong ground motion

structural engineering. See earthquake engineering

Stuiver, Minze

subduction zone. See also Cascadia Subduction Zone

submarine canyon

submarine channel

Sylmar (San Fernando Valley) Earthquake of 1971

syncline

 

T

T-phase waves

Tacoma Fault

tidal wave. See tsunami

Toe Jam Hill Fault

Toppenish Ridge, Washington

transform fault

tree-ring dating

tsunami: before 1964; CREST; deep-sea pressure gauge; directivity of; effects of sea-floor configuration; hazard maps; in Hawaii; Japanese characters for; logo; long-period     waves; National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program; of 1964; surfing a; sounds of. See also U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tualatin Basin

turbidites

 

U

uncertainty principle

Uniform Building Code. See also building codes

United Policyholders, Inc.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. See U.S. National Geodetic Survey

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000; Federal Insurance Administration; HAZUS; as part of Department of Homeland Security;     Project Impact

U.S. Geological Survey: Advanced National Seismic System; external grants program; Puget Sound-Portland program

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Jet Propulsion Lab; Earth Systems Enterprise. See also Global Positioning System

U.S. National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program

U.S. National Geodetic Survey

U.S. National Geophysical Data Center

U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): National Undersea Research Program; seafloor mapping; tsunami warning systems

U.S. National Science Foundation: earthquake engineering research centers; Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation; Ocean Sciences Directorate

U.S. Navy

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

U.S. Small Business Administration

U.S. Weather Bureau University of California, Berkeley seismic network

University Navstar Consortium

unreinforced masonry (URM)

utility lines

 

V

VAN prediction method

Vancouver Island, earthquake of 1918; earthquake of 1946

Vere-Jones, D.

Very Long Baseline Interferometry

 

W

Wang, Kelin

Washington Department of Transportation

Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources

Washington Growth Management Act

Washington State Emergency Management Division

water heater, strapping

wave amplitude: frequency; period; wavelength

wave-cut platform

Wecoma Fault

Weldon, Ray

Wentworth, Carl

Werner, Ken

West Point, Seattle, trench

Western Canada Deformation Array. See Global Positioning System

Western States Seismic Policy Council

Whitcomb, Jim

Willapa Bay, Niawiakum Estuary of: active syncline

Wilson, Joseph

Wong, Ivan

Woodburn, Oregon, earthquake swarm of 1990

Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities

WWSSN

 

X

 

Y

Yakima Fold Belt

Yamaguchi, Dave

Yount, Jim

 

Z