Design for L.A. environmental challenges : Earthquake: General resources

Cal Tech Seismological Laboratory  

California Seismic Safety Commission (State agency)

Geschwind, Carl-Henry, California Earthquakes : Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

McPhee, John, Assembling California, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, QE89.M37 1993

Southern California Earthquake Center (U.S. Geological Survey, based at USC)

Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) (Aggregator of seismic info collected by Cal Tech and SCSN)

Ulin, David L., The myth of solid ground: earthquakes, prediction, and the fault line between reason and faith, Viking, QE538.8.U45 2004

D'Amico, Sebastiano (Editor), Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society, Springer International Publishing AG, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Robinson, Andrew, Earthquake : nature and culture, Reaktion, QE534.3.R63 2012

Tesfamariam, S. & K. Goda (Editors), Handbook of Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

January 9, 1857, "Fort Tejon earthquake"

• Agnew, Duncan Carr, Reports of the Great California Earthquake of 1857, 2006 (Available via the Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
• Finn, Megan, “Information Infrastructure and Descriptions of the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake,” Information & Culture, v. 48, no. 2 (2013)
• SCEDC, "Fort Tejon Earthquake" (fact sheet)

February 23, 1892, "Laguna Salada earthquake" (SCEDC Fact sheet)

April 21, 1918, "San Jacinto earthquake" (SCEDC Fact sheet)

November 4, 1927, "Lompoc earthquake" (SCEDC Fact sheet)

March 10, 1933, "Long Beach earthquake" (SCEDC Fact sheet)

May 18, 1940, "Imperial Valley earthquake" (SCEDC Fact sheet)

February 9, 1971, "San Fernando/Sylmar earthquake"

• Lew, Hai Sang, et al., Engineering aspects of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, U.S. National Bureau of Standards, 1971, TA435.U58 no. 40
• SCEDC, "San Fernando earthquake" (Fact sheet)

October 1, 1987, "Whittier Narrows earthquake"

• Lew, H.S., The Whittier Narrows earthquake of October 1, 1987: a reconnaissance report, U.S. Department of Commerce, November 1987
• Pantelis, J. & A. Reinhorn, Report on the Whittier-Narros, California earthquake of October 1, 1987, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, November 1987
• SCEDC, "Whittier Narrows earthquake" (Fact sheet)

January 17, 1994, "Northridge earthquake"

• SCEDC, "Northridge earthquake" (Fact sheet)
• Todd, Dana, 1994 Northridge earthquake : performance of structures, lifelines, and fire protection systems, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1994 (PDF available via NIST)
• Tolles, E. Leroy, et al., Survey of Damage to Historic Adobe Buildings After the January 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Getty Conservation Institute, 1996 (Ebook available via Getty Publications Virtual Library)

OTHER EARTHQUAKE CASE STUDIES

• Nixon, Martin. Architecture, Opportunity, and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Sicily : Rebuilding after Natural Disaster, Amsterdam University Press, 2023 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 
• Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake, National Academies Press, 1994 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
• Smits, Gregory, When the Earth Roars : Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
• Takezawa, Shoichiro, The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami : Living among the Rubble, Lexington Books, 2016 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
• Tobriner, Stephen, Bracing for Disaster : Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933, Heyday, 2006 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
• USGS, The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake—Selected Photographs, 1999 (Available via USGS)
• Nalewicki, Jennifer, "How an Earthquake Turned This New Zealand Town into the Art Deco Capital of the World," Smithsonian, February 19, 2016 (On Napier, New Zealand)
• Scarfi, Luca, "Unmasking Noto: the baroque of reconciliation," Thresholds, #28, 2005

GENERAL

California Department of Conservation, "Landslides," California Geological Survey, 2025 (via conservation.ca.gov)

Walker, Lawrence R. & Aaron B. Shiels, Landslide ecology, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Werner, Ernest D. & Hugh P. Friedman (editors), Landslides : causes, types and effects, Nova Science Publishers, 2010 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

ENGINEERING FOR LANDSLIDE PREVENTION

González de Vallejo, Luis I. & Mercedes Ferrer, Geological engineering, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011  (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Singh, Bhawani & R.K. Goel, Engineering rock mass classification : tunnelling, foundations, and landslides, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Harris, Charles W. & Nicholas T. Dines (editors), Time-saver standards for landscape architecture, second edition, McGraw-Hill, SB475.9.S72 T55 1998 (See Section 253: "Natural Hazards: Landslides and Snow Avalanches")

Lang, Susan, Hillside Landscaping, Sunset Books, SB458.95.L25 2002

LANDSLIDE RISK MANAGEMENT

Anderson, M. G. & Elizabeth Holcombe, Community-based landslide risk reduction : managing disasters in small steps, World Bank, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

National Research Council of the National Academies, Partnerships for reducing landslide risk : assessment of the National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy, National Academies Press, 2004 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Bizzarri, A., et al. (Editors), Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting, IOS Press, Incorporated, 2019 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Coen, Deborah R., The Earthquake Observers : Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter, University of Chicago Press, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Hough, Susan, The Great Quake Debate : The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology, University of Washington Press, 2020 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Kagan, Yan Y., Earthquakes : Models, Statistics, Testable Forecasts, American Geophysical Union, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Li, Yong-Gang (Editor), Fault-Zone Guided Wave, Ground Motion, Landslide and Earthquake Forecast, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Ohnaka, Mitiyasu, The Physics of Rock Failure and Earthquakes, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Ouzounov, Dimitar, et al., Pre-Earthquake Processes : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Prediction Studies, American Geophysical Union, 2018

Vita-Finzi, Claudio, & Andrew Dominic Fortes, Planetary Geology : An Introduction, Liverpool University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake hazzards program

Yeats, Robert, Active Faults of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Hamblyn, Richard, Tsunami : nature and culture, Reaktion Books, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Los Angeles County Tsunami Hazard Areas, California Department of Conservation

Tsunami Warning Center, U.S. National Weather Service

The Tsunami Zone, Statewide California Earthquake Center

Tyler, Jenna, “Sustainable Hazard Mitigation: Exploring the Importance of Green Infrastructure in Building Disaster Resilient Communities,” Consilience, no. 15 (2016): 134–45

Veitch, Neil & Gordon Jaffray, Tsunamis: Causes, Characteristics, Warnings and Protection : Causes, Characteristics, Warnings and Protection, Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Zirker, J. B., The Science of Ocean Waves : Ripples, Tsunamis, and Stormy Seas, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)