At the surface, strike-slip fault stepovers, including abrupt fault bends, are typically regions of complex, often disconnected faults. This complexity has traditionally led geologists studying the hazard of active faults to consider such stepovers as important ...

Tidal triggering evidence of intermediate earthquakes in the Vrancea region (Romania) is investigated. The Vrancea seismic zone is located in the bend region of the South-Eastern Carpathians (45◦–46◦ N, 25.5◦–27.5◦E) and is known as one of the most active ...

<p>The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio has become increasingly popular in studies of site effect and determination of the predominant period of a site. In this study, this method is extended to identify nonlinear soil responses. To establish this phenomenon, ...

The October 8, 2005, Kashmir earthquake (M 7.6) triggered several thousand landslides, mainly rock falls and rock slides, in the epicentral area near the cities of Muzafarrabad and Balakot, Pakistan. Most of these were shallow, coalescing rock slides emanating ...

This paper describes the retesting of liquefaction and nonliquefaction field case histories in the Imperial Valley using the electric cone penetration test (CPT). Subsurface testing of the River Park and Heber Road sites first occurred following the 1979 Imperial ...

In the present work, an attempt has been made to study in detail the seismicity of the Surghar, Marwat, Khisor, Pezu and Manzai Ranges, which are known as the western extension of the Salt Range. For this purpose all available earthquake data with magnitude ...

<p>The Bam earthquake of 26 December 2003 (Mw6.5) occurred at 01:56:56 (GMT, 05:26:56 local time) around the city of Bam in the southeast of Iran. The Bam earthquake of 26/12/2003 (Mw6.5) has <br />demolished the city of Bam, ...

The 2002 M7.9 Denali fault earthquake resulted in 340 km of ruptures along three separate faults, causing widespread liquefaction in the fluvial deposits of the alpine valleys of the Alaska Range and eastern lowlands of the Tanana River. Areas affected by liquefaction ...

A magnitude 6.6 (Ms) earthquake struck the city of Bam in southeast Iran at 5:26:52 AM (local time) on Friday, December 26, 2003. The city’s population was about 90,000, with 200,000 total residents in the greater Bam area. The U.N. Office for the Coordination ...

<p>A two-year project has been funded at Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as part of Phase 2 of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) of the National Science Foundation. This project will ...