Liquefaction induced by historic and prehistoric earthquakes in western Puerto Rico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 385, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-276

  Tuttle, Martitia P ^a   Dyer Williams, Kathleen ^a   Schweig, Eugene S ^b   Prentice, Carol S ^c   Moya, Juan Carlos ^d   Tucker, Kathleen B ^e  

^a M Tuttle and Associates   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d EcoGeo   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Paleoliquefaction; Paleoseismology; Quaternary fault behavior

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

GEOTECHNICAL DATA; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; LIQUEFACTION POTENTIALS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PALEOLIQUEFACTION; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKES; QUATERNARY FAULT BEHAVIOR;

LIQUEFACTION;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LIQUEFACTION; PALEOSEISMICITY; PREHISTORIC; SEISMIC MOMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ANASCO VALLEY; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 34547106415     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2385-X.263     Document Type: Article

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