Cascadia's Fault - Jerry Thompson [158]
Mendocino Triple Junction
Mexico City earthquake: building codes and; conclusions from; damage patterns of; death tolls in; devastation by; impacts of; magnitude of; media and; precursors to; scientific significance of; tectonic origins of; tectonic plates and; theories of; tsunamis and; vs. terror attacks
Michoacán zone
Minor, Rick
Mitchell, Clifton
Mogi, Kiyoo
Moore, Chris
Moser, Chris
Mount Mazama
Mount St. Helens
Mulargia, Francesco
Munroe, Linda
N
Nankai Subduction Zone
National Academy of Sciences
National Geodetic Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Oceanography Center
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
native peoples: earthquake stories of
Nature
NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS). See GPS
Nelson, Alan
Nelson, Hans
New York Times
Nihon University
NOAA. See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
North America plate
Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering
NSF. See National Science Foundation
nuclear power: antinuclear activists and; Humboldt Bay nuclear power plant; safety regulations and; seismic risks of; seismic safety and; Washington Public Power Supply System and
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
O
Obara, Kazushige
obducting
ocean floor mapping
Office of Naval Research
Ogle, Bud
Oregon Academy of Sciences
Oregon State University (OSU)
Orphan tsunami
OSU. See Oregon State University
P
Pacific County Emergency Management Agency
Pacific County Emergency Management Council
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
Pacific Geoscience Centre (PGC)
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Pacific Northwest: earthquake predictions; earthquake research
Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network
Pacific plate
Pacific Rim
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
paleoseismology
Pangaea
Park, Stephen
Parkfield earthquake
Parsons, Barry
Peterson, Curt
Petrolia earthquake
PGC. See Pacific Geoscience Centre
PG&E. See Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Plafker, George
planetary cooling
plate boundaries
Plate Boundary Observatory
plate convergence. See also plate tectonics
plate tectonics
Port Alberni. See also Good Friday earthquake
predictions. See also Cascadia’s fault
Prescott, Bill
Press, Frank
Prince William Sound
Provincial Emergency Program
Q
Quake Hunters
R
radiocarbon dating
Rangemaster III,
Reagan, Ronald
Reardon, Sally
Redwood Alliance
Reid, Harry F.
Reilinger, Robert
residual uplift
“rhombohedral fracture” patterns
Richter, Charles
Richter scale
Riddihough, Robin
Ring of Fire
Rogers, Garry
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
ruptures. See also faults
S
Sacramento Bee
SAFOD. See San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
San Andreas fault; Cascadia’s fault and
San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)
Satake, Kenji
Savage, Jim. 129, 156, 213
Schmidt, Mike
Schwartz, David
Science
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
sea-floor mapping
seismic activities
“seismic gaps,”
seismic risk factors
seismic zoning laws
seismographic records
seismographs
Seismological Research Letters
Seismological Society of America
seismologists
seismometers
Shell Oil Company
Shimazaki, Kunihiko
Shipengyu Earthquake Observatory
ShockWave
shockwaves
silent slip
Silver, Eli
Simon Fraser University
Smith, Stewart
Snavely, Park
Sokolowski, Thomas
Stein, Ross
Stephens, Tom
strainmeters
stratigraphic markers
stratigraphic patterns
subduction earthquakes
subduction zones
Sullivan, Walter
Sumatra tsunami
Sunda Trench
Sylmar earthquake
T
Tangshan earthquake
tectonic plates. See also individual plate names
“The Big One,” xv,
The China Syndrome
The Journal
The Oregonian
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
Three Mile Island
tidal friction
tidal waves. See tsunamis
Titov, Vasily
Tokyo University
tree-ring dating
tree-root-ring dating
Tsuji, Yoshinobu
tsunameters
tsunamis: deaths and; devastation by; digital modeling of; earthquakes and; economic impacts of; education and; emergency