Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America

Volume 86 - Number 6 - December 1996

Contents

The Great Mexican Earthquake of 19 June 1858: Expected Ground Motions and Damage in Mexico City from a Similar Future Event
    S. K. Singh, M. Ordaz, and L. E. Pérez-Rocha

Analysis of Wave Propagation in the Valley of Mexico from a Dense Array of Seismometers
    Jeffrey S. Barker, Michel Campillo, Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma, Denis Jongmans, and Shri Krishna Singh

A Monte Carlo Approach in Estimating Uncertainty for a Seismic Hazard Assessment of Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties, California
    Chris H. Cramer, Mark D. Petersen, and Michael S. Reichle

Site Effects and Microzonation in the City of Thessaloniki (Greece) Comparison of Different Approaches
    Corinne Lachet, Denis Hatzfeld, Pierre-Yves Bard, Nikos Theodulidis, Christos Papaioannou, and Alekos Savvaidis

Shallow Velocity Structure and Poisson's Ratio at the Tarzana, California, Strong-Motion Accelerometer Site
    R. D. Catchings and W. H. K. Lee

The Anomalous Seismic Response of the Ground at the Tarzana Hill Site During the Northridge 1994 Southern California Earthquake: A Resonant, Sliding Block?
    J. A. Rial

On the Coherence of Ground Motion in the San Fernando Valley
    S. E. Hough and E. H. Field

What Is a Reference Site?
    Jamison H. Steidl, Alexei G. Tumarkin, and Ralph J. Archuleta

Contol of Strong Motion by the Upper 30 Meters
    John G. Anderson, Yajie Lee, Yuchua Zeng, and Steven Day

The Effects of the Atmospheric Pressure Changes on Seismic Signals or How to Improve the Quality of a Station
    R. Beauduin, P. Lognonné, J. P. Montagner, S. Cacho, J. F. Karczewski, and M. Morand

A Neotectonic Study of the San Miguel--Vallecitos Fault, Baja California, Mexico
    C. Kenji Hirabayashi, Thomas K. Rockwell, Steven G. Wesnousky, Mark W. Stirling, and Francisco Suarez-Vidal

Geomorphic Evidence for Holocene Earthquakes in the Olinghouse Fault Zone, Western Nevada
    Christopher O. Sanders and D. Burton Slemmons

The Central and Southern Elsinore Fault Zone, Southern California
    Harold Magistrale and Thomas Rockwell

Rare, Large Earthquakes at the Laramide Deformation Front--Colorado (1882) and Wyoming (1984)
    William Spence, C. J. Langer, and George L. Choy

Numerical Simulation of Multi-Parameter Seismic Scattering
    Hungyu Chang and George A. McMechan

Constraints on Crustal Structure and Complex Moho Topography beneath Piñon Flat, California, from Teleseismic Receiver Functions
    G. Eli Baker, J. Bernard Minster, George Zandt, and H. Gurrola

Large-Amplitude Moho Reflections (SmS) from Landers Aftershocks, Southern California
    Jim Mori and Donald Helmberger

A Statistical Technique for Validating Velocity Models
    Edwin S. Iversen, Jr. and Jonathan M. Lees

The Influence of Errors in Source Parameters on Phase Velocity Measurements of Surface Waves
    Everhard Muyzert and Roel Snieder

Characteristics of Short-Period Wave Propagation in Regions of Fennoscandia, with Emphasis on Lg
    Kristín S. Vogfjörd and Charles A. Langston

Automatic Seismic Event Recognition and Later Phase Identification for Broadband Seismograms
    Cheng Tong and Brian L. N. Kennett

Seismic Radiation from Explosively Loaded Cavities in Isotropic and Transversely Isotropic Media
    R. L. Gibson, Jr., M. N. Toksöz, and W. Dong

On the Probability of Mistaking an Earthquake for an Explosion Using the Simplicity of P
    David Bowers

On the Variation of Slip Direction during Earthquake Rupture: Supporting and Conflicting Evidence from the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
    Mariagiovanna Guatteri and Massimo Cocco

Macroseismic Study of Shallow Earthquakes in the Central and Eastern Parts of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico
    Max Suter, Miguel Carrillo-Martínez, and Odranoel Quintero-Legorreta

Review

Nonlinear Soil Response--A Reality?
    Igor A. Beresnev and Kuo-Liang Wen

Short Notes

Earth-Flattening Transformation for P-SV Waves
    S. N. Bhattacharya

Is the Quiescence of Major Earthquakes (M ≥ 7.5) Since 1952 in the Himalaya and Northeast India Real?
    S. P. Satyabala and Harsh K. Gupta

The Galaxidi Earthquake of 18 November 1992: A Possible Asperity within the Normal Fault System of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece)
    D. Hatzfeld, D. Kementzetzidou, V., Karakostas, M. Ziazia, S. Nothard, D. Diagourtas, A. Deschamps, G. Karakaisis, P. Papadimitriou, M. Scordilis, R. Smith, N. Voulgaris, S. Kiratzi, K. Makropoulos, M. P. Bouin, and P. Bernard

Comment and Reply

Comment on ``A Discrete Wavenumber and Normal-Mode Superposition Method for Synthetic Seismograms'' by Terumi Touhei
    Eduardo Kausel

Reply to Eduardo Kausel's Comment on ``A Discrete Wavenumber and Normal-Mode Superposition Method for Synthetic Seismograms''
    Terumi Touhei

Erratum

Erratum to ``Stability of the P-to-S Energy Ratio in the Diffusive Regime'' by G. C. Papanicolaou, L. Ryzhik, and J. B. Keller
    George C. Papanicolaou, Leonid Ryzhik, and Joseph B. Keller

Index to Volume 86

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