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References, Resources, and Works Cited...


Cascadia Subduction Zone Events

Heaton, Thomas H. and Stephen H. Hartzell. "Earthquake Hazards on the Cascadia Subduction Zone." Science 236 (1987): 162-168.

Kerr, Richard A. "Big squeeze Points to a Big Quake." Science 252 (1988): 28.

Coastal Land Level Changes Caused by:

Atwater, Brian F. "Coastal Evidence for Great Earthquakes in Western Washington." Assessing Earthquake Hazards and Reducing Risk in the Pacific Northwest, USGS Professional Paper 1560 Vol. 1 (1996): 77-90.

Atwater, Brian F. "Evidence for Great Holocane Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State." Science 236 (1987): 942-944.

Peterson, Curt D. and Mark E. Darienzo. "Discrimination of Climatic, Oceanic, and Tectonic Mechanisms of Cyclic Marsh Burial, Alsea Bay, Oregon." Assessing Earthquake Hazards and Reducing Risk in the Pacific Northwest, USGS Professional Paper 1560 Vol. 1 (1996): 115-146.

Historic Records of:

Hill, Richard L. “Japanese and Tribal Accounts Describe Huge Quake, Waves.” The Oregonian 26 Jan. 2000.

Leeman, William P. “Cascadia (Pacific Northwest) Seismicity.” Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Rice University. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~leeman/CascadiaEQs.html.

Monastersky, Richard. “Rattling the Northwest: Signs of prehistoric superquakes may portend a future shock.” Science News 137 (1990): 105.

Nelson, Alan R. “The Great Cascadia Earthquake, January 27, 1700.” EQNews January 1997.

Satake, Kenji, et al. “Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700.” Nature 379 (1996): 247-248.

Native American Lore and:

Hill, Richard L. “Japanese and Tribal Accounts Describe Huge Quake, Waves.” The Oregonian 26 Jan. 2000.

“Native American Legends of Tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest.” USGS. 28 June 1999 http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/NAlegends.html.

Trees and:

Atwater, Brian F., Minze Stuiver, and David K. Yamaguchi. "Radiocarbon test of earthquake magnitude at the Cascadia subduction zone." Nature 353 (1991): 156-158.

Yamaguchi, David K., et al. "Tree-ring dating the 1700 Cascadia earthquake." Nature 389 (1997): 922-923.

Tsunamis Caused by:

Heaton, Thomas. “The calm before the quake?” Nature 343 (1990): 511-512.

Monastersky, Richard. “Rattling the Northwest: Signs of prehistoric superquakes may portend a future shock.” Science News 137 (1990): 105.

Paulson, Tom. “Was last year’s Nisqually Quake ‘the Big One’? Hardly.” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 27 Feb. 2002.

Turbidites and:

Adams, John. "Great Earthquakes Recorded by Turbidites off the Washington-Oregon Coast." Assessing Earthquake Hazards and Reducing Risk in the Pacific Northwest, USGS Professional Paper 1560 Vol. 1 (1996): 147-158.