International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part A (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 8
Contributors 12
Foreword 18
Preface 20
Part I: History and Prefatory Essays 22
Chapter 1. History of Seismology 24
Chapter 2. Historical View of Earthquake Engineering 34
Chapter 3. The Jesuit Contribution to Seismology 40
Chapter 4. International Seismology 50
Chapter 5. Synthesis of Earthquake Science Information and Its Public Transfer: A History of the Southern California Earthquake Center 60
Chapter 6. Continental Drift, Sea-Floor Spreading, and Plate/Plume Tectonics 72
Chapter 7. Earthquake Mechanisms and Plate Tectonics 90
Part II: Theoretical Seismology 100
Chapter 8. Theoretical Seismology: An Introduction 102
Chapter 9. Seismic Ray Theory and Finite Frequency Extensions 124
Chapter 10. Normal Modes of the Earth an Planets 146
Chapter 11. Inversion of Surface Waves: A Review 170
Chapter 12. Earthquake Dynamics 196
Chapter 13. Scattering and Attenuation of Seismic Waves in the Lithosphere 216
Chapter 14. Earthquakes as a Complex System 230
Chapter 15. Physics of Earthquakes 250
Chapter 16. Probabilistic Approach to Inverse Problems 258
Part III: Observational Seismology 288
Chapter 17. Challenges in Observational Seismology 290
Chapter 18. Seismometry 304
Chapter 19. Seismic Noise on Land and on the Seafloor 326
Chapter 20. US Contribution to Digital Global Seismograph Networks 340
Chapter 21. The Structure and Interpretation of Seismograms 354
Chapter 22. Analysis of Digital Earthquake Signals 370
Chapter 23. Seismometer Arrays„their Use in Earthquake and test Ban Seismology 378
Chapter 24. Seismological Methods of Monitoring Compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty 390
Chapter 25. Volcano Seismology and Monitoring for Eruptions 404
Chapter 26. Three-Dimensional crustal P-wave Imaging of Mauna Loa and kilauea volcanoes, Hawaii 428
Chapter 27. Marine Seismology 442
Chapter 28. Tsunamis 458
Part IV: Earthquake Geology and Mechanics 474
Chapter 29. Geology of the Crustal Earthquake Source 476
Chapter 30. Paleoseismology 496
Chapter 31.Using Earthquakes for Continental Tectonic Geology 512
Chapter 32. Rock Failure and Earthquakes 526
Chapter 33. State of Stress Within the Earth 560
Chapter 34. State of Stress in the Earth's Lithosphere 580
Chapter 35 Strength and Energetics of Active Fault Zones 590
Chapter 36 Implications of Crustal Strain during Conventional, Slow, and Silent Earthquakes 610
Chapter 37. Estimating Earthquake Source Parameters from Geodetic Measurements 628
Chapter 38. Electromagnetic Fields Generated by Earthquakes 642
Chapter 39. Earthquake-Related Hydrological and Geochemical Changes 658
Chapter 40. Case Histories of Induced and Triggered Seismicity 668
Part V: Seismicity of the Earth 684
Chapter 41. Global Seismicity 686
Chapter 42. A List of Deadly Earthquakes in the World: 1500–2000 712
Chapter 43. Statistical Features of Seismicity 740
Chapter 44. Relationships between Magnitude Scales 754
Chapter 45. Historical Seismicity and Tectonics: The Case of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East 768
Chapter 46. Earthquakes and Archaeology 786
Chapter 47. Historical Seismology: The Long Memory of the Inhabited World 796
Chapter 48. Earthquake History: Some Examples 812
Chapter 49. Macroseismology 828
Chapter 50. USGS Earthquake Moment Tensor Catalog 844
Part VI: Earth's Structure 848
Chapter 51. The Earth's Interior 850
Chapter 52. Probing the Earth's Interior with Seismic Tomography 882
Chapter 53. Seismic Anisotropy 896
Chapter 54. Seismic Velocity Structure of the Continental Lithosphere from Controlled Source Data 908
Chapter 55. Seismic Structure of the Oceanic Crust and Passive Continental Margins 932
Chapter 56. The Earth's Core 946
Index 956