Monthly Archives: August 2019

A STUDENT-LED CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM TO COLLECT ORAL HISTORY OBSERVATIONS FROM WITNESSES TO TWO LARGE EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA – LEAH SALDITCH, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Seismic hazard maps are used to predict how much shaking an earthquake will produce and in designing earthquake-resistant buildings. It’s therefore important that these maps be accurate. This project will focus on creating an oral history collection of shaking observations from witnesses of two earthquakes, the 1992 Joshua Tree and 1993 Big Pine, California earthquakes.…
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