Earthquakes
I chose to do my assignment on earthquakes because I have always wondered about what causes something that can be so destructive to man and nature alike.
One of the papers I chose is titled Comparison of Short-Term and Time-Independent Earthquake Forecast Models for Southern California' by Agnes Helmstetter, Yan Kagan, and David Jackson. They discuss how they initially developed a time-independent forecast for the southern California area. They can reasonably predict magnitude 5 or greater quakes by studying small magnitude 2 or less earthquakes. Many large earthquakes are preceded by and probably triggered by smaller ones. They use these models to issue daily earthquake forecasts for southern California.
The other paper I read is titled Anomalous Seismic Amplitudes Measured in the Los Angeles Basin Interpreted as a Basin-Edge Diffraction Catastrophe' by Allen Husker, Monica Kohler, and Paul Davis. In this paper they examine data from the Los Angeles Basin Passive......
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