In the News!
- Tsunami could overwhelm Washington coast, swamp state when 'the big one' strikes, simulations showBy Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 9/3/2020
Selected Books/E-books
Living with Earthquakes in California by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 0585492360Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Cascadia's Fault by Call Number: SBU BOL Book 551.22 T374ISBN: 1582436436Publication Date: 2011-05-01
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916A Library of Congress American Memory web resource, "This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916.
Cascadia & California Faults, Subduction Zones, Tsunamis
- In 1700, the ‘really big one’ — a magnitude 9.0 earthquake — hit Western WashingtonSeattleTimes.com, By Christine Clarridge, 1/26/2021
- The orphan tsunami of 1700—Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North AmericaAtwater, B.F., Musumi-Rokkaku, S., Satake, K., Tsuji, Y., Ueda, K., and Yamaguchi, D.K., 2015, The orphan tsunami of 1700—Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America, 2nd ed.: Seattle, University of Washington Press, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1707, 135 p.
- Back to the Future on the San Andreas FaultUSGS. Earthquake Hazards Program
- Cascadia Subduction ZoneAn USGS web resource
- Gorda Deformation ZoneUniversity of Oregon, Miles Bodmer
- Hidden Napa earthquake faults found by NASA radarA LiveScience resource by Becky Oskin, Senior Writer. Published September 12, 2014
- Is the 'big one' coming? Study warns huge 1,000km long fault where megaquake will originate is 'eerily quiet'By Mark Prigg for MailOnline
Published: 16:05 EST, 4 December 2014 Updated: 16:28 EST, 4 December 2014 - The Last Cascadia Great Earthquake and TsunamiPacific Northwest Seismic Network, Seismo Blog, January 24, 2013 by Bill Steele
- MegaQuake Could Hit North America [video transcript]Transcript of the BBC video
- Models Expose California Earthquake VulnerabilitiesA U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science web resource
- Movement on a vast scale detected near San Andreas faultBy Rob Verger Published June 22, 2016 FoxNews.com
- Newly identified fault line in California could unleash monster earthquakeUSA Today, Doyle Rice , USA TODAY Published 2:56 p.m. ET March 8, 2017 | Updated 4:08 p.m. ET March 8, 2017
- Oregon Tsunami ClearinghouseA resource of the State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
- Pacific Northwest Seismic NetworkBased at the University of Washington, the PNSN operates seismograph stations and locates earthquakes in Washington and Oregon.
- Prehistoric earthquakes discovered along San Andreas FaultUSGS, Release Date: March 2, 2017
- San Andreas fault 'locked, loaded and ready to roll' with big earthquake, expert saysBy Rong-Gong Lin, Contact Reporter, Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2016
- Science of California’s Seismic Pests, or Earthquake “Swarms”Andrew Alden, KQED Science Contributor | October 10, 2013
- Scientists may be cracking mystery of big 1872 earthquakePhys.org. Nov 27, 2014 by Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times
- Shallow-depth location and geometry of the Piedmont Reverse splay of the Hayward Fault, Oakland, California Open-File Report 2016-1123Catchings, R.D., Goldman, M.R., Trench, David, Buga, Michael, Chan, J.H., Criley, C.J., and Strayer, L.M., 2017, Shallow-depth location and geometry of the Piedmont Reverse splay of the Hayward Fault, Oakland, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1123, 22 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161123.
- Tsunami Hazard MapsA Pacific Northwest Seismic Network resource
- Turbidite Event History—Methods and Implications for Holocene Paleoseismicity of the Cascadia Subduction Zone2012 U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1661–F
- The vertical fingerprint of earthquake cycle loading in Southern CaliforniaNature Geoscience, June 2016 by Samuel Howell, Bridget Smith-Konter, Neil Frazer, Xiaopeng Tong and David Sandwell
Selected Media
Additional media resources may be found by searching the Films on Demand database. https://libguides.sbuniv.edu/FOD
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916A Library of Congress American Memory web resource, "This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916.
- Cascadia Earthquake ModelA komonews.com web resource featuring University of Washington seismologist William Steele
- Loma Prieta Earthquake 17 Oct. 1989 5:04 P.M.A California Highway Patrol resource
- San Andreas FaultA Discovery Channel resource
- Surviving the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989A National Geographic resource
- What can GPS tell us about future earthquakes?UNAVCO, Inc.
- WHERE THE FAULT LIES, Part OneBrian Hackney Reports
- WHERE THE FAULT LIES, Part TwoBrian Hackney Reports
- WHERE THE FAULT LIES, Part ThreeBrian Hackney Reports
- WHERE THE FAULT LIES, Part FourBrian Hackney Reports