| Abstract: | When a powerful earthquake strikes an urban region, damage concentrates not only near the quake‘s source. Damage can also occur many miles from the source in areas of soft ground. In recent years, scientists have developed ways to identify and map these areas of high seismic hazard. This advance has spurred pioneering legislation to reduce earthquake losses in areas of greatest hazard. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 5181 |
| Citation Author: | Borcherdt, Roger D.; Brown, Robert B.; Page, Robert A.; Wentworth, Carl M.; Hendley, James W., II |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park Science Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 2 p. |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Reducing Earthquake Losses Throughout the United States |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 224-95 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Seismic maps foster landmark legislation; 1995; FS; 224-95; Borcherdt, Roger D.; Brown, Robert B.; Page, Robert A.; Wentworth, Carl M.; Hendley, James W., II |
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| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | Seismic maps foster landmark legislation; 1995; FS; 224-95; Borcherdt, Roger D.; Brown, Robert B.; Page, Robert A.; Wentworth, Carl M.; Hendley, James W., II |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_224_95.gif |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1995/0224/ |
| Date Other: | Tue, 1 Apr 1997 02:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
