Earthquake engineering resource from University of California, Berkeley June 20, 2008
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In 1997, William G. Godden, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, donated his nine-volume slide set, Structural Engineering Slide Library, to the Earthquake Engineering Research Center Library at the University of California at Berkeley. This site - http://nisee.berkeley.edu/bertero/ - is based on the original text for Set J: Earthquake Engineering, by V. V. Bertero, an illustrated introduction to earthquake engineering principles. It includes a series of articles on how earthquakes cause damage and what the potential solutions are.
The resource is provided by the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
USGS data for Afghanistan November 22, 2007
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Two resources from the USGS, Seismicity of Afghanistan and vicinity, a USGS report on seismic hazards in that area, and Natural-Color image mosaics of Afghanistan: digital databases and maps, a dataset of 50 tiles produced from Landsat datasets.
Earthquake catalogue March 7, 2007
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Researchers at GeoforschungsZentrum Potsdam have created An Earthquake Catalogue for Central, Northern and Northwestern Europe based on MW magnitudes. Data was taken from ‘25 local catalogues and 30 special studies of earthquakes in central, northern and northwestern Europe’. The following article (print only) presents the database in more detail:
Grunthal, G. & Wahlstrom, R. (2007) A unified database of large European earthquakes. Eos, 88 (6), 1-3.
Hawaiian volcanoes October 19, 2006
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From the USGS, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, part of the Volcano Hazards Program at the USGS. Both form part of the Natural Hazards Gateway, covering resources on earthquakes, landslides, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires and volcanoes.
Thanks to the Librarians’ Internet Index for bringing my attention to the Observatory.
