seismic calm, xvii, 242
seismic lull, 235
seismic waves, 23, 33, 38, 114–116, 122–123, 183–186, 221, 244
seismic zones, 158, 217–222, 236
seismograms, 115–119
seismographs, 48–49, 64–68, 113–118, 122–123, 178
Seismological Society of America, 68, 83
Shakespeare, William, 34
shear zone, 222
Sieh, Kerry, 193, 197–199, 224
Sierra Club, 26, 53
sismografo, 112–113. See also seismographs
Skinner, Walter, 60–62, 65
Smartville Block, 209, 220
Soda Lake, 140–141
Sonomia Block, 209, 220
southern U.S. earthquakes, 36–37
Speed, Matthias, 36–37
Steen, Elizabeth, 174–175, 181
Stein, Ross, 191, 230
Steno’s law, 138
Stephan, Bruce, 88
Strauss, Joseph, 76–89
stress pattern, 230, 241–242
stress transfer, 229–231, 235, 241–242
strike-slip faults, 136, 210–211, 221. See also horizontal movement
subduction zone, 158, 161–163, 167–169, 202–203, 209, 236
superposition, 138, 166
T
Taconic Orogeny, 207–208
“Tale of Two Cities, A,” 185
Taliaferro, Nicholas, 136
Tangshan earthquake, 186
tectonic plates, xvi–xvii, 160, 163
Temblor Range, 140–143, 146
temperature scale, 118
Tennant, Thomas, 15–16
Theory of Elastic Rebound, 67, 224
Thomas, M. Carey, 69
Thrilling Wonder Stories, 109
transform faults, 148, 157–163, 169, 209–214, 240
Trask, John, 39–41
tree rings, 194–195
“Trinity” test, 122–123
triple junction, 211–213
tsunami, 18
turbidity currents, 202, 204
Turkey earthquakes, xviii, 35, 63, 227–228, 230
Tuve, Merle, 148
Twain, Mark, 41–42
U
Udintsev, Gleb, 156, 158
V
Vickery, Frederick, 136–137
Vine, Frederick, 159, 164
Virginia earthquake, 124
volcanic rocks, 137, 144–146, 205
volcanic tuff, 205
von Jansch, Ludovika, 79
W
Wadati, Kiyoo, 117
Walker Lane seismic zone, 217–222, 236
Wallace, Robert, 142–143
Walrond, Henry, 139
Walthenburg, John, 96
wave trains, 65, 115
Wegener, Alfred, 152–153, 160
Wesley, John, 18, 19
western orogeny, 209
western U.S. earthquakes, 14–22, 40–45, 47–70. See also specific earthquakes
Whitcomb, James, 185
White, Ellen, 173
White Wolf Fault, 119
Whitney, Josiah Dwight, 1–20, 26, 31, 215, 218
Whitney, Luisa, 1–2
Whittier Fault, 234
Whittier Narrows earthquake, 39
Wilhelms, Don, 136
Williams, Grace, 84
Willis, Bailey, 82–85, 90–91, 105–106, 130
Wilson, J. Tuzo, 107–108, 148–164, 166–167
Winthrop, John, 19
Wood, Harry Oscar, 114–115
Wood-Anderson seismometer, 114–118, 122
Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities, 235–237
World Series earthquake, 88. See also Loma Prieta earthquake
worldwide seismicity, 34–35, 38, 158
X
Xianqing, Cao, 182
Xianshuihe Fault, xviii, 231, 240–241
Y
“Yosemite Glaciers,” 14
Yosemite Valley, 11–17, 218
Yosemite Valley earthquake, 14–17
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