United States Earthquakes

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Alternate Title

• U.S. earthq.

Notes

• Serial covers data for the year 1928 (published in 1930) through 1986 (published in 1994).
• Imprint varies./ Volumes for 1928-1965 issued by: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; 1966-1969 by: National Earthquake Information Center; 1970 by: National Geophysical Data Center; 1971-72 by: National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center; 1973-1980 by: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey; 1981-1986 by: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey.
• From 1928 volume: "This publication is in continuance of the quarterly seismological report of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, covering the period from January 1, 1925, to December 31, 1927, including a supplement for the last half of 1924. The change in plan of publication represented by the present volume and the decision to confine publication of instrumental records not included in it to the monthly seismological reports in mimeographed form, is the result of conferences and also correspondence with seismologists in this and other countries" (p. 1).
• From 1928 volume: "...this volume is an extension of the information which appears in Special Publication No. 149 of this bureau entitled, 'Earthquake History of the United States' (exclusive of the Pacific region). This publication, however, is more complete since it includes earthquakes of all grates of intensities and also includes earthquakes of the Pacific coast region" (p. 2).

Places

• United States

Identifiers

• LCCN: 75640209
• OCLC: 1798128
• UNT-TITLE-ID: t04187
• ISSN: 0091-1429