Columns: Opinion
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March/April 2010 Vol. 81, No. 2 |
Welcome to Portland—Sitting on the Big One
Ivan G. Wong |
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January/February 2010 Vol. 81, No. 1 |
15 Years Later: The Growing Legacy of the 1995
Kobe Earthquake
Gregory C. Beroza |
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November/December 2009 Vol. 80, No. 6 |
Earthquake Casualties in Italy: The Blame
Game
Valentina Montaldo Falero, Carlo Meletti, and Massimilano Stucchi |
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September/October 2009 Vol. 80, No. 5 |
Seismic Hazard vs. Seismic Risk
Zhenming Wang |
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July/August 2009 Vol. 80, No. 4 |
Mid-Continent Earthquakes as a Complex System
Seth Stein, Mian Liu, Eric Calais, and Qingsong Li |
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May/June 2009 Vol. 80, No. 3 |
BSSA: Worth Thinking About
Andrew J. Michael |
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March/April 2009 Vol. 80, No. 2 |
SSA Goes to Washington
Stuart Nishenko and Elizabeth Duffy |
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January/February 2009 Vol. 80, No. 1 |
Thirty Years of Confusion around “Scattering Q”?
Igor B. Morozov |
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November/December 2008 Vol. 79, No. 6 |
Earthquake Archaeology—Just a Good
Story?
Manuel Sintubin, Iain S. Stewart, Tina Niemi, and Erhan Altunel |
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September/October 2008 Vol. 79, No. 5 |
A Warning about Early Warning
Steve Malone |
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July/August 2008 Vol. 79, No. 4 |
The Importance of Small Earthquakes
John E. Ebel |
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May/June 2008 Vol. 79, No. 3 |
CTBT Monitoring: A Vital Activity for Our
Profession
Paul G. Richards |
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March/April 2008 Vol. 79, No. 2 |
Challenges Ahead for the Global Seismographic Network
Wiliam Leith |
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January/February 2008 Vol. 79, No. 1 |
Is Bigger Really Better?
Thorne Lay |
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November/December 2007 Vol. 78, No. 6 |
Sustainable Networks: The Next Challenge in
International Earthquake Monitoring
Arthur Lerner-Lam and Ray Willemann |
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September/October 2007 Vol. 78, No. 5 |
SSA 101
William L. Ellsworth, SSA President |
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July/August 2007 Vol. 78, No. 4 |
Seismic Hazard Analysis for Building Codes
Praveen K. Malhotra |
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May/June 2007 Vol. 78, No. 3 |
Equivalence of Tectonic Motions
Cinna Lomnitz |
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March/April 2007 Vol. 78, No. 2 |
Will Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
Break the Power Law?
Thomas H. Heaton |
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November/December 2006 Vol. 77, No. 6 |
Looking Backward, Facing Forward
Susan Newman |
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September/October 2006 Vol. 77, No. 5 |
The Next 100 Years of Earthquake Science, Engineering,
and Emergency Management—It’s Time to Unite
Chris D. Poland, S.E. |
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July/August 2006 Vol. 77, No. 4 |
Shadowed by the Glare of 1906 are Faceless
Future Dangers
John E. Vidale |
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May/June 2006 Vol. 77, No. 3 |
Limitations of a Young Science
Seth Stein |
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March/April 2006 Vol. 77, No. 2 |
A Look Back At 1906—Perspectives On
Great Earthquakes And Post-Earthquake
Investigations
David P. Schwartz |
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January/February 2006 Vol. 77, No. 1 |
Earthquake Predictability, Brick by Brick
Thomas H. Jordan |
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November/December 2005 Vol. 76, No. 6 |
EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory GPS and Strainmeter Site Permitting: A Perspective Two Years into the Construction Phase
Mike E. Jackson and Kyle R. Bohnenstiehl |
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September/October 2005 Vol. 76, No. 5 |
Costs and Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring
Paul Somerville |
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July/August 2005 Vol. 76, No. 4 |
The Challenge of Earthquake Risk Assessment
Warwick Smith |
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May/June 2005 Vol. 76, No. 3 |
Breaking Omori’s Law of Public Awareness
Arthur Lerner-Lam and Leonardo Seeber |
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March/April 2005 Vol. 76, No. 2 |
Identifying and Saving Seismology’s Heirlooms
James W. Dewey and Harold Bolton |
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January/February 2005 Vol. 76, No. 1 |
Success and Failure at Parkfield
Allan Goddard Lindh |
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November/December 2004 Vol. 75, No. 6 |
Trends in Global Urban Earthquake Risk: A Call to the International Earth Science and Earthquake Engineering Communities
Brian E. Tucker |
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September/October 2004 Vol. 75, No. 5 |
No Free Lunch
Seth Stein |
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July/August 2004 Vol. 75, No. 4 |
Surface Faulting: A New Paradigm for the Pacific Northwest
Robert S. Yeats and Craig Weaver |
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May/June 2004 Vol. 75, No. 3 |
Stepping Up to the Plate
David Applegate |
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March/April 2004 Vol. 75, No. 2 |
Musings of a Retiring BSSA Editor
Michael Fehler |
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January/February 2004 Vol. 75, No. 1 |
Outreach and Education: Reflections from the Trenches
Susan E. Hough |
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November/December 2003 Vol. 74, No. 6 |
The Nature of Earthquake Prediction
Allan G. Lindh |
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September/October 2003 Vol. 74, No. 5 |
Science Can Save Us: Outreach as Necessity and Strategy
James D. Goltz |
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July/August 2003 Vol. 74, No. 4 |
Walkin’ the Line: Seeking That Delicate Balance between Scaring People to Death and Boring ‘em to Death
Stephanie Hanna |
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May/June 2003 Vol. 74, No. 3 |
Speculations on Earthquake Forecasting
Stuart Crampin, Yuan Gao, Sebastien Chastin, Shiela Peacock, and Peter Jackson |
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March/April 2003 Vol. 74, No. 2 |
Earthquake Safety: The Spotlight Is on Seismology
Bruce R. Clark |
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January/February 2003 Vol. 74, No. 1 |
Seismologists Must Begin Forecasting Earthquakes
John E. Ebel |
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November/December 2002 Vol. 73, No. 6 |
A Time for the Advanced National Seismic System
Gail Atkinson and Terry Wallace |
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July/August 2002 Vol. 73, No. 4 |
A Study of Earthquake Science
Thomas H. Jordan |
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May/June 2002 Vol. 73, No. 3 |
Mechanical Pollution
Nano Seeber |
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March/April 2002 Vol. 73, No. 2 |
A Rich Heritage Lost: Observations on the Effects of the Bhuj Earthquake, India
Randolph Langenbach |
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January/February 2002 Vol. 73, No. 1 |
Ethical Problems in Seismology
Agustin Udias |
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November/December 2001 Vol. 72, No. 6 |
Dawn of a New Era in Computational Global Seismology
Jeroen Tromp |
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September/October 2001 Vol. 72, No. 5 |
Drop, Cover, and Hold: How a Moderate Earthquake-hazard State Implemented Earthquake Preparedness in Schools
Gregory B. Champlin |
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July/August 2001 Vol. 72, No. 4 |
The Prophetic Urge to Warn People about Dangers That We Know Exist
Dr. James F. Davis |
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May/June 2001 Vol. 72, No. 3 |
Precautionary Principle: Applications to Seismic Hazard Analysis
John G. Anderson |
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March/April 2001 Vol. 72, No. 2 |
On Quantification of the Earthquake Source
Yehuda Ben-Zion |
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January/February 2001 Vol. 72, No. 1 |
The Buck Stops Here Too
Hilmar Bungum |
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November/December 2000 Vol. 71, No. 6 |
The HEDIAI Issue
James Beavers |
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September/October 2000 Vol. 71, No. 5 |
On the Scientific Value of “Unscientific” Data
Susan E. Hough |
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July/August 2000 Vol. 71, No. 4 |
True Confessions from a Magnitude-weary Seismologist
Lucy Jones |
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May/June 2000 Vol. 71, No. 3 |
Public Misconceptions about Faults and Earthquakes in the Eastern United States: Is It Our Own Fault?
Alan L. Kafka |
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March/April 2000 Vol. 71, No. 2 |
Front Row Seat at the Revolution
Susan B. Newman |
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January/February 2000 Vol. 71, No. 1 |
One Size Does Not Fit All
Roger Hansen |
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November/December 1999 Vol. 70, No. 6 |
Open Data, International Law, and the Nuclear Test-ban Treaty
Gregory van der Vink and Terry Wallace |
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September/October 1999 Vol. 70, No. 5 |
U.S. Seismic Networks: A Time for Change
Steve Malone |
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July/August 1999 Vol. 70, No. 4 |
The End of Earthquake Hazard
Cinna Lomnitz |
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May/June 1999 Vol. 70, No. 3 |
Stress-forecasting Earthquakes
Stuart Crampin |
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March/April 1999 Vol. 70, No. 2 |
The Almighty Earthquake
Kunihiko Shimazaki |
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January/February 1999 Vol. 70, No. 1 |
For Federal Funding of Scientific Research, Silence = Death
Kristine Dietz |
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November/December 1998 Vol. 69, No. 6 |
Do Regional Seismic Networks in the U.S. Have a Future?
Walter Arabasz |
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September/October 1998 Vol. 69, No. 5 |
Looking for Bears: Space Geodesy for Earthquake Studies
Seth Stein |
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July/August 1998 Vol. 69, No. 4 |
Earthquake Prediction IS Possible
Lowell S. Whiteside |
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May/June 1998 Vol. 69, No. 3 |
CTBT Ratification: A Call to Action
Howard J. Patton |
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March/April 1998 Vol. 69, No. 2 |
Why Is Earthquake Prediction So Difficult?
Paul Silver |
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January/February 1998 Vol. 69, No. 1 |
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Seismological Research
Thorne Lay |
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November/December 1997 Vol. 68, No. 6 |
The SSA and Government Regulations
Terry C. Wallace |
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September/October 1997 Vol. 68, No. 5 |
Implications of the Northridge and Kobe Earthquakes for the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program
Paul G. Somerville |
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July/August 1997 Vol. 68, No. 4 |
Predictable Publicity
Robert J. Geller |
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May/June 1997 Vol. 68, No. 3 |
Predictable Debate
Arthur L. Lerner-Lam |
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March/April 1997 Vol. 68, No. 2 |
Is the Study of Earthquakes a Basic Science?
Thomas H. Jordan |
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January/February 1997 Vol. 68, No. 1 |
Don't Call It Stress Drop
Gail M. Atkinson and Igor Beresnev |
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November/December 1996 Vol. 67, No. 6 |
The Role of Scientists
D. W. Simpson |
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September/October 1996 Vol. 67, No. 5 |
Seismologists and Educational Outreach
Michelle Hall-Wallace and Terry C. Wallace Jr. |
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July/August 1996 Vol. 67, No. 4 |
Earth Systems Science and the Evolution (Revolution?) of Seismology
Peter E. Malin |
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May/June 1996 Vol. 67, No. 3 |
The Case against Huge Earthquakes
S. E. Hough |
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March/April 1996 Vol. 67, No. 2 |
Long-Term Earthquake Forecasting
Larry J. Ruff |
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January/February 1996 Vol. 67, No. 1 |
The Case for Huge Earthquakes
David D. Jackson |