Proceedings volume, Basin and Range Province Seismic-Hazards Summit II (MP 05-2)

By: W. R. Lund, editor

This Proceedings Volume documents the results of the second Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit held in Reno-Sparks, Nevada on May 16-19, 2004. Included are abstracts of the 26 oral presentations made at the summit, which were grouped into the following categories: (1) Earthquake Hazards of the Basin and Range Province, (2) Estimating Earthquake Size and Hazard From Faults, (3) Determining Fault Activity, (4) Earthquake Recurrence Intervals, and (5) Ground Motion for the Basin and Range Province. Thirty-eight poster presentations were also made at the summit, on topics as diverse as establishing guidelines for evaluating surface fault rupture, digital trench wall logging, and using ShakeMap as a tool for understanding earthquake hazards. The abstracts for the poster presentations are likewise included in this volume. Twenty presenters agreed to prepare papers or expanded abstracts of their talks or posters for inclusion in this volume, and an additional 10 posters are included here in their entirety.

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Published: 2005
Pages: 20 papers, 64 abstracts and 10 posters
Location: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Iron, Juab, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah, Washington and Weber Counties