Liquefaction-related ground failure: A case study in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 636-645

  Tuttle, Martitia ^a   Barstow, Noël ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND FAILURE; LIQUEFACTION; OVERBANK DEPOSIT; SAND BLOW; SEISMICITY; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT;

USA, MISSOURI, ST FRANCIS BASIN;

EID: 0030438512     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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