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The Geology
of Earthquakes Oxford University Press, 1996, 568 Pages, ISBN
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Deprem Jeolojisi Çevirenler: Yayinlayan: Gazi Kitabevi |
Turkish
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The Earth in Turmoil: Earthquakes
and Volcanos and Their Impact on Humankind W. H. Freeman & Sons, 1998, 324 Pages, ISBN
0-7167-3151-7 |
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Living on an Active Earth:
Perspectives on Earthquake Science National Academies Press, 2003, Washington, D.C.,
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| Sieh, K., 2000, Acts of
God, acts of man: How humans turn natural hazards into disasters:
Engineering and Science 63, no. 4, pp. 8-17. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., and D. Natawidjaja, 2000, Neotectonics
of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia: Journal of Geophysical
Research 105, 28,295-28,326. ................................................................................ |
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| Spotila, J., and K. Sieh, 2000, Architecture
of transpressional thrust faulting in the San Bernardino Mountains,
southern California, from deformation of a deeply weathered surface:
Tectonics 19, 589-615. ................................................................................ |
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| Dolan, J., K. Sieh and T. Rockwell, 2000, Late
Quaternary activity and seismic potential of the Santa Monica fault
system, Los Angeles, California: Geological Society of America
Bull. 112, 1559-1581. ................................................................................ |
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| Zachariasen, J., K. Sieh, F. Taylor,
and W. Hantoro, 2000, Modern vertical deformation
above the Sumatran subduction zone: Paleogeodetic insights from coral
microatolls: Seismol. Soc. America Bulletin 90, 897-913. ................................................................................ |
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Oskin, M., K. Sieh, T. Rockwell, P. Guptill,
G. Miller, M. Curtis, M. Payne, S. McArdle, and P. Elliot, 2000, Active
parasitic folds on the Elysian Park anticline: Implications for
seismic hazard in central Los Angeles, California: Geological
Society of America Bulletin 112, 693-707. |
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| Sieh, K., S. Ward, D. Natawidjaja and B. Suwargadi,
1999, Crustal deformation at the Sumatran
subduction zone revealed by coral rings. Geophysical Research
Letters 26, 3141-3144. ................................................................................ |
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| Zachariasen, J., K. Sieh, F. Taylor, R. Edwards,
and W. Hantoro, 1999, Submergence and uplift
associated with the giant 1833 Sumatran subduction earthquake: Evidence
from coral microatolls: Journal of Geophysical Research 104,
895-919. ................................................................................ |
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| Spotila, J., K. Farley and K. Sieh, 1998, Uplift
and erosion of the San Bernardino Mountains associated with transpression
along the San Andreas fault, California, as constrained by radiogenic
helium thermochronometry: Tectonics 17, 360-378. ................................................................................ |
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| Rubin, C., and K. Sieh, 1997, Long
Dormancy, Low Slip Rate and Similar Slip-per-event for the Emerson
Fault, Eastern California Shear Zone: Journal of Geophysical
Research 102, 15,319-15,335. ................................................................................ |
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| Dolan, J., K. Sieh, T. Rockwell, P. Guptill, G.
Miller, 1997, Active tectonics, paleoseismology
and seismic hazards of the Hollywood fault, southern California:
Geological Society of America Bulletin 109, 1595-1616. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1996, The repetition
of large-earthquake ruptures: Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 93 (9), 3764-3771. ................................................................................ |
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| Spotila, J. A., and K. Sieh, 1995, Geologic
investigations of a "slip gap" in the surficial ruptures
of the 1992 Landers earthquake, southern California: Journal
of Geophysical Research 100, 543-559. ................................................................................ |
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| Zachariasen, J., and K. Sieh,
1995, The transfer of slip between
two en echelon strike-slip faults: A case study from the 1992 Landers
earthquake, southern California: Journal
of Geophysical Research 100, 15,281-15,302. ................................................................................ |
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| Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities,
1995, Seismic hazards in southern
California: Probable earthquakes, 1994-2024:
Bull. Seismol. Soc. America 85, 379-439. ................................................................................ |
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| Dolan, J., K. Sieh, T. Rockwell, R. Yeats,
J. Shaw, J. Suppe, G. Huftile, and E. Gath, 1995, Prospects
for larger and more frequent earthquakes in the Los Angeles metropolitan
region: Science 267, 199-205. ................................................................................ |
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P94d |
Rubin, C., and K. Sieh, 1994, Geomorphic
evidence for active faulting along the southern margin of the
central Transverse Ranges, southern California: Bulletin
of the Association of Engineering Geologists 30, 521-523. ................................................................................ |
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| Hummon, C, C. Schneider, R. Yeats, J. Dolan,
K. Sieh and G. Huftile, 1994, Wilshire fault. Earthquakes
in Hollywood?: Geology 22, 291-294 ................................................................................. |
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| Grant, L. B., K. Sieh, 1994, Paleoseismic
Evidence of Clustered Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in
the Carrizo Plain, CA.: Journal of Geophysical Research
99, 6819-6842. ................................................................................ |
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P94a |
Weldon, R., K. Sieh, C. Zhu, Y. Han, J. Yang,
and S. Robinson, 1994, Slip Rate and Recurrence
Interval of Earthquakes on the Hong He (Red River) Fault, Yunnan,
P.R.C., in International Workshop on Seismotectonics and
Seismic Hazard in SE Asia, pp. 244-248, Hanoi, Vietnam. ................................................................................ |
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| McGill, Sally, and Kerry Sieh, 1993, Holocene
Slip Rate of the Central Garlock Fault in Southeastern Searles
Valley, California: Journal of Geophysical
Research 98, 14,217-14,231. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., L. Jones, E. Hauksson, K. Hudnut,
D. Eberhart-Phillips, T. Heaton, S. Hough, K. Hutton, H. Kanamori,
A. Lilje, S. Lindvall, S. McGill, J. Mori, C. Rubin, J. A. Spotila,
J. Stock, H. Thio, J. Treiman, B. Wernicke and J. Zachariasen,
1993, Near-field investigations
of the Landers Earthquake sequence, April to July, 1992:
Science 260, 171-176. ................................................................................ |
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| Grant, L., and K. Sieh, 1993, Stratigraphic
evidence for 7 meters of dextral slip on the San Andreas fault
during the great 1857 earthquake in the Carrizo Plain:
Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 83, 619-635. ................................................................................ |
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| Nagy, E., and K. Sieh, 1993, The
use of paleomagnetic analysis to assess non-brittle deformation
within the San Andreas Fault zone,
J. Geophys. Res. 98, 17965-17979. ................................................................................ |
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| Dolan, J., F., Sieh, K., 1992, Tectonic
geomorphology of the northern Los Angeles Basin; seismic hazards
and kinematics of young fault movement:
Assoc. Eng. Geol., South. Calif. Sect., Los Angeles, CA. ................................................................................ |
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| Agnew, D., Aki, K., Cornell, C., Davis, J.,
Flores, P., Heaton, T., Idriss, I., Jackson, D., McNally, K., Reichle,
M., Savage, J. and Sieh, K., 1992, Future
Seismic Hazards in southern California: Phase I: Implications of
the 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence,
report available from the California Division of Mines and Geology,
Sacramento, CA. ................................................................................ |
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| Bausch, D., E. Gath, T. Gonzalez, J. Dolan,
and K. Sieh, 1992, Application
of new developments in seismic hazard assessment: Revised safety
element of the general plan, City of Santa Monica, California:
Assoc. Engineering Geologists Bull., Proceedings of 35th Annual
Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 9, 1992, 707-713 ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., M. Stuiver and D. Brillinger, 1992, Implications
of the precise chronology of earthquakes produced by the San Andreas
Fault at Pallett Creek: in Engineering Geology Practice in Southern
California: Assoc. Engineering Geologists
Special Publication 4, 195-198. ................................................................................ |
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| Salyards, S., K. Sieh and J. Kirschvink, 1992, Paleomagnetic
measurement of nonbrittle deformation across the San Andreas Fault
at Pallett Creek, J. Geophys. Res.
97, 12,457-12,470. ................................................................................ |
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| Wesnousky, S., C. Prentice and K. Sieh, 1991, An
offset Holocene stream channel and rate of slip along the northern
reach of the San Jacinto fault zone, San Bernardino Valley, California:
Geol. Soc. America Bull. 103, 700-709. ................................................................................ |
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| Jones, L., K. Sieh, D. Agnew, C. Allen, R.
Bilham, M. Ghilarducci, B. Hager, E. Hauksson, K. Hudnut, D. Jackson,
and A. Sylvester, 1991, Short-term
Earthquake Hazard Assessment for the Southern San Andreas Fault,
Southern California, USGS Open-File
Report #91-32 ................................................................................ |
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| McGill, Sally F. and K. Sieh, 1991, Surficial
offsets on the eastern Garlock fault associated with prehistoric
earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 21,597-21,621 ................................................................................ |
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Jones, L., K. Sieh, E. Hauksson and
K. Hutton, 1990, The 3 December 1988 Pasadena,
California earthquake: Evidence for strike-slip motion on the Raymond
fault, Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 80, 474-482. |
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| Sieh, K., and P. Williams, 1990, Behavior
of the southernmost San Andreas Fault during the past 300 years,
J. Geophys. Res. 95, 6629-6645. ................................................................................ |
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| Hudnut, K., and K. Sieh, 1989, Behavior
of the Superstition Hills fault during the past 330 years:
Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 79, 304-329. ................................................................................ |
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| Bursik, M., and K. Sieh, 1989, Range-front
faulting and volcanism in the Mono Basin, Eastern California,
J. Geophys. Res. 94, 15,587-15,609. ................................................................................ |
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| McGill, S., C. Allen, K. Hudnut, D. Johnson,
W. Miller, and K. Sieh, 1989, Slip
on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated
with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Desert Ranch and Superstition
Hills earthquakes, southern California,
Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 79, 362-375. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., M. Stuiver and D. Brillinger, 1989, A
more precise chronology of earthquakes produced by the San Andreas
Fault in southern California: J. Geophys.
Res. 94, 603-623. ................................................................................ |
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| Jacoby, G., P. Sheppard and K. Sieh, 1988, Irregular
recurrence of large earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault in
southern California -- Evidence from trees near Wrightwood:
Science 241, 196-199. ................................................................................ |
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| Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities,
1988, Probabilities of large earthquakes
occurring in California on the San Andreas Fault: U.S. Geological
Survey, Open-file Report 88-398. ................................................................................ |
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| Williams, P., S. McGill, K. Sieh, C. Allen
and J. Louie, 1988, Triggered slip
along the San Andreas Fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs
earthquake: Seismol. Soc. America Bull.
78, 1112-1122. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., and Bursik, M., 1986, Most
recent eruption of the Mono Craters, eastern central California:
J. Geophys. Res. 91, 12,539 - 12,571. ................................................................................ |
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| Weldon, R. and Sieh, K., 1985, Holocene
rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes
on the San Andreas Fault, Cajon Pass, southern California:
Geol. Soc. America Bull 96, 793-812. ................................................................................ |
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P84h |
Sieh, K., 1984, Most
recent eruptions of the Mono Craters, Eastern Central California:
U.S. Geol. Survey Open-File Report 84-939, Proceedings of Workshop
XIX: Active Tectonic and magmatic processes beneath Long Valley
Caldera, eastern California, l, pp.
96-129. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1984, Earthquake
geology in Yunnan Province: China Exchange
News 12, no. 1, pp. 3-6. ................................................................................ |
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| Allen, C.R., Gillespie, A.R., Yuan, Han, Sieh,
K., Buchun, Zhang and , 1984c, Red
River and associated faults, Yunnan Province, China: Quaternary
Geology, Slip Rate and Seismic Hazard:
Geol. Soc. America Bull. 95, pp. 686-700. ................................................................................ |
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| Allen, C.R., Yuan, Han, Sieh, K., Buchun,
Zhang, Gillespie, A.R. and , 1984b, Study
of the Quaternary activities of the Red River fault (II) -- Its
features of activity, slip rate and recurrence intervals of earthquakes:
in Chinese with English abstract: Journal of Seismological Research,
Yunnan People's Publishing House, Kunming, China, 7, no. 2, pp.
171-186. ................................................................................ |
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| Allen, C.R., Gillespie, A.R., Yuan, Han, Sieh,
K., Buchun, Zhang and Chengnan, Zhu, 1984a, Study
of the Quaternary activities of the Red River fault (I) -- General
survey of its contemporary activities and evidence of the active
faulting: in Chinese with English abstract:
Journal of Seismological Research, Yunnan People's Publishing House,
Kunming, China, 7, no. 1, pp. 39-51. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K. (with Jane Dietrich), 1984, Research
in progress: Engineering & Science
47, no. 4, pp. 29-30. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., and Jahns, R.H., 1984, Holocene
activity of the San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek, California:
Geol. Soc. America Bull. 95, pp. 883-896. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1984, Lateral
offsets and revised dates of large earthquakes at Pallett Creek,
California: J. Geophys. Res. 89, pp.
7641-7670. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1982, Slip
along the San Andreas fault associated with the earthquake: in
The Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake of October 15, 1979,
U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 1254, pp. 155-160. ................................................................................ |
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| Sharp, R.V., Lienkaemper, J.J., Bonilla, M.G.,
Burke, D.B., Cox, B.F., Herd, D.G., Miller, D.M., Morton, D.M.,
Ponti, D.J., Rymer, M.J., Tinsley, J.C., Yount, J.C., Kahle, J.E.,
Hart, E.W. and Sieh, K., 1982, Surface
faulting in the central Imperial Valley: in The Imperial Valley,
California Earthquake of October 15, 1979,
U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 1254, pp. 119-144. ................................................................................ |
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| Raleigh, C.B., Sieh, K., Sykes, L.R. and Anderson,
D.L., 1982, Forecasting southern
California earthquakes: Science 217,
pp. 1097-1104. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1981, Geological
studies of the Holocene behavior of the San Andreas Fault, California:
in Proc. International Research Conference on Intraplate Earthquakes,
Sept. 17-19, 1979, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, Petrovski, J., ed., pp. 209-218. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1981, A
review of geological evidence for recurrence times of large earthquakes:
in Earthquake Prediction -- An International Review,
Maurice Ewing Series 4, pp. 181-207. Reprinted in Chinese in Collected
Translations in Seismology and Geology 6, no. 6, pp. 32-38, Seismological
Press, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing, 1984. ................................................................................ |
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P81a |
Sieh, K., 1981, Is
California "Overdue" for a great earthquake?:
Engineering and Science 44, no. 4, pp. 4-8. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1980, A
search for great prehistoric earthquakes along the San Andreas
Fault, California: in Proc. Earthquake
Prediction Research Symposium, Seismol. Soc. Japan, pp. 175-185. ................................................................................ |
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| Meisling, K.E. and Sieh, K., 1980, Disturbance
of trees by the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, California:
J. Geophys. Res. 85, pp. 3225-3238. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1978, Slip
along the San Andreas Fault associated with the great 1857 earthquake:
Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 68, pp. 1421-1428. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1978, Pre-historic
large earthquakes produced by slip on the San Andreas Fault at
Pallett Creek, California: J. Geophys.
Res. 83, pp. 3907-3939. Reprinted in Wrench Fault Tectonics, American
Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Reprint Series No. 28, A.G. Sylvester
(ed.), pp. 223-275, 1984. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 1978, Central
California foreshocks of the great 1857 earthquake:
Seismol. Soc. America Bull. 68, pp. 1731-1749. ................................................................................ |
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| Agnew, D. and Sieh, K., 1978, A
documentary study of the felt effects of the great California earthquake
of 1857: Seismol. Soc. America Bull.
68, pp. 1717-1729. ................................................................................ Historical accounts of the 1857 earthquake  |
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P77a |
Sieh, K., 1977, Late
Holocene displacement history along the south-central reach of
the San Andreas Fault: Ph.D. dissertation,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, 219 p. ................................................................................ |
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P73a |
Sieh, K., Cheatum, C., Dingus, L., Johnson,
W. and McMurty, G., 1973, Geological
investigations of portions of the San Jacinto fault zone, San Bernardino,
California: in Geological Investigations of the San Jacinto Fault
Zone, and Aspects of the Socio-economic Impact of Earthquakes in
the Riverside-San Bernardino area, California,
Elders, W.A., ed., University of California, Riverside, Campus
Museum Contributions, no. 3, pp. 1-49. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 2005, How
Science Can Save Lives, Special Report
to Time Asia Magazine, January 3, 2005. ................................................................................ |
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| Sieh, K., 2000, Acts
of God, acts of man: How humans turn natural hazards into disasters:
Engineering and Science 63, no. 4, pp. 8-17. ................................................................................ |
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Op97a |
Sieh, K., 1997, Statement,
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Hearing before the
Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, U.
S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First
Session, April 24th: U. S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, p. 101-122. [See Congressional
Website.] ................................................................................ |
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