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Alternate fault model for the Santa Barbara, California, earthquake of 13 August 1978

Robert S. Yeats, Daniel J. Olson
Published: 01 October 1984
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1984) 74 (5): 1545–1553.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0740051545
...Robert S. Yeats; Daniel J. Olson Abstract Published reports attribute the 1978 Santa Barbara earthquake to a north-dipping reverse fault supported in part by first-motion studies. Surface geology augmented by oil-well and trench logs shows a predominance of late Quaternary reverse faults which dip...
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The Santa Barbara, California, earthquake of 13 August 1978

Edward J. Corbett, Carl E. Johnson
Published: 01 December 1982
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1982) 72 (6A): 2201–2226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA07206A2201
...Edward J. Corbett; Carl E. Johnson abstract The 5.1 M L Santa Barbara earthquake of 13 August 1978 occurred at 22 h 54 m 52.8 s UTC. The epicenter was located 3 km southeast of Santa Barbara at 34° 23.9′N latitude and 119°40.9′W longitude with a focal depth of 12.7 km. The main shock was followed...
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A broadband study of the 13 August 1978 Santa Barbara earthquake

Terry C. Wallace, Don V. Helmberger, John E. Ebel
Published: 01 December 1981
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1981) 71 (6): 1701–1718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0710061701
...Terry C. Wallace; Don V. Helmberger; John E. Ebel Abstract The Santa Barbara earthquake of 13 August 1978, provides an opportunity to perform a broadband investigation of body waves for a well-recorded, moderate size ( M L = 5.1) event. The long- and short-period teleseismic body waves are modeled...
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Single-station fault plane solutions

Charles A. Langston
Published: 01 June 1982
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1982) 72 (3): 729–744.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0720030729
... studied are the 9 April 1968 Borrego Mountain, California; 20 June 1978 Thessaloniki, Greece; 13 August 1978 Santa Barbara, California; 20 May 1979 Alaska; and 6 August 1979 Coyote Lake, California, earthquakes. It is also shown using data from the 27 July 1980 Sharpsburg, Kentucky, earthquake...
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The location and source parameters of the Lompoc, California, earthquake of 4 November 1927

D. V. Helmberger, P. G. Somerville, E. Garnero
Published: 01 August 1992
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1992) 82 (4): 1678–1709.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0820041678
... Bilt (Netherlands) that remains in operation. Thus, recordings of numerous modern events in central coastal California (i.e., the 1969 Santa Lucia Banks, 1983 Coalinga, 1978 Santa Barbara, and 1989 Loma Prieta earthquakes) have been used for comparison with the 1927 records. Location constraints...
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Variations in the 5% damped spectra because of 3D effects for the four-stor...

Variations in the 5% damped spectra because of 3D effects for the four-stor...

Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 4. Variations in the 5% damped spectra because of 3D effects for the four-story building located at (a) Station 25302 (recording from the 1978 Santa Barbara earthquake in NS direction) and (b) Station 12299 (recording from the 1986 Palm Spring earthquake in east-west (EW) direction).
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Seismic characteristics of earthquakes along the offshore extension of the western transverse ranges, California

Allison L. Bent, Donald V. Helmberger
Published: 01 April 1991
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1991) 81 (2): 399–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0810020399
... , Ph. D. Thesis , California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, Calif. , 231 pp. Corbett E. J. Johnson C. E. (1982) . The Santa Barbara earthquake of 13 August 1978 , Bull...
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Food store disturbance as a seismic intensity indicator

Robert Nason
Published: 01 June 1984
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1984) 74 (3): 987–993.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0740030987
... L. D. (1978) . Compilation of strong-motion records recovered from the Santa Barbara earthquake of 13 August 1978 , Calif. Div. Mines Geology Preliminary Report 22 , 43 pp. Richter C. F. (1958...
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Late Pleistocene Slip Rate and 3D Geometry of the Mid‐Channel Blind Thrust, Santa Barbara Channel, California, and Their Implications for Earthquake Hazards

Jessica Don, John H. Shaw, Ana Luiza Nicolae, Christopher C. Sorlien, Craig Nicholson, Andreas Plesch
Published: 28 September 2022
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2022) 112 (6): 3081–3101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220048
... of the North Channel, Pitas Point, or Red Mountain faults (e.g., Archuleta et al. , 1997 ; Kamerling et al. , 2003 ; Nicholson, Sorlien, Kamerling, and Hopps, 2017 ). The 13 August 1978 M w  5.6 earthquake occurred southwest of Santa Barbara on an oblique reverse fault with aftershocks indicating...
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Neotectonics of the Offshore Oak Ridge Fault near Ventura, Southern California

Michael A. Fisher, H. Gary Greene, William R. Normark, Ray W. Sliter
Published: 01 April 2005
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2005) 95 (2): 739–744.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120040126
... ( 1978 ). The marine geology of the eastern Santa Barbara Channel with particular emphasis on the ground water basins offshore from the Oxnard plain, southern California , U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rept. 78-305 , 104 pp. Hall , E. A. ( 1982 ). Geological observations on the Montalvo...
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Central California foreshocks of the great 1857 earthquake

Kerry E. Sieh
Published: 01 December 1978
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1978) 68 (6): 1731–1749.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0680061731
... is responsible for the reports is also suggested by the high intensities reported at widely separated localities (Santa Barbara, V_; Los Angeles, V to VI; San Bernardino, V Preliminary study of modern isoseismal maps for M => 5.0