Disaster information: a bibliography

ID: 1604

Au: Thacker, Katy.

Ti: Water quality issues.

Pub: Negril; Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society; 1994. 184.

Lo: Jamaica, Natural Resources Conservation Authority.
ID: 1605

Au: Ambeh, William B. ed.

Ti: Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods.

Pub: Kingston; University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit; 1994. 395.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: Costa Rica, Regional Disaster Information Center for Latin America and the Caribbean, UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1606

Au: Suite, Winston H. E.

Ti: A strategy for retrofitting critical structures in reducing earthquake and hurricane risk.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 373-80.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1607

Au: Shepherd, John B; Lynch, Lloyd L; Tanner, J. G.

Ti: A revised earthquake catalogue for the eastern Caribbean region: 1513-1992.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 43-52.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: We present a revised earthquake catalogue for the eastern Caribbean region 8N to 22.5N, 58W to 70W covering the period 1930 to 1993. Sizes of all events for which sufficient information exists have been expressed in terms of seismic moment either measuring directly or derived from earthquake magnitude by theoretical and empirical formulae. From 1530 to 1900 the sources of information consists entirely of written accounts of felt earthquakes. The completeness of this part of the catalogue varies throughout the region but is probably complete down to magnitude (Mw) 6.5 to 7 since 1800 and perhaps as far back as 1600 in some parts of the region. From 1900 onwards an increasing number of instrumentally-determined epicenters and magnitudes are available but reports of felt earthquakes continue to exceed instrumental observation until at least 1950. During this period the lower magnitude of completeness is in the range of 5.5 to 6. After 1950 the establishment of more modern seismograph station within the region gradually improved the location threshold but the major improvement did not occur until 1964 when the almost simultaneous completion of WWSSN and the establishment of the ISC further reduced the threshold to about 4.0. Within limited regions such as the Central Lesser Antilles and the Trinidad-Tobago region where local seismograph systems are particularly efficient the local threshold is now down to micro earthquake level.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1608

Au: Latchman, Joan L; Ambeh, William B; Lynch, Lloyd L.

Ti: Attenuation of seismic waves in the Trinidad & Tobago area.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 100-12.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: The attenuation of seismic waves from earthquakes located within the area bounded by 9-12N and 60-63W was estimated from short period seismograms. Coda Q, Qc, determinations were made for each of the six seismograph stations within the area, while spectral Q values from P-phases, Q alpha, were estimated from station TRN. The S-S single scattering model was assumed for coda generations, and the w-2 (omega) source model was assumed for the spectural Q determinations. The Qc values show a strong frequency dependence in frequency range values 1.5 to 12 Hz. The value of Q at 1 Hz, Qo, was found to lie within the range 107-132, while the rate of frequency dependence, n, extends from 0.80-1.06 for shallow events. For intermediate depth events, Qo varies from 101-173 and n from 0.80-1.02. Q alpha values obtained show a spatial variation within the region, with the highest attenuation being obtained on land Trinidad.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1609

Au: Chin, Myron W; Patazopoulou, S. J.

Ti: Comparison of Caribbean and North American seismic provisions.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 283-93

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1610

Au: Osborne, Robin W. A.

Ti: Construction practices and seismic vulnerability: typical single-family dwellings in Trinidad, West Indies.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 365-8.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1611

Au: Paultre, Patrick; Mitchell, Denis.

Ti: Determining seismic base shear - a more rational approach.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. .294-302.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1612

Au: Aguilar-Bercerril, Hector R; Perez-Rocha, L. Eduardo; Aviles-Lopez, Javier Perez-Rocha, L Edwardo; Aguilar-Bercerril, Hector R.

Ti: Dynamic soil-structure interaction effects on response spectra.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 124-33.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1613

Au: Ambeh, William B.

Ti: Earthquake hazard in the Eastern Caribbean.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 147-64.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1614

Au: Smith, Alan L; Roobol, M. J.

Ti: Eastern Caribbean volcanic hazards.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 220-9.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1615

Au: Smith, Martin S; Shepherd, John B.

Ti: Explosive submarine eruptions of Kick-'Em-Jenny Volcano: priliminary investigations of the potential tsunami hazard in the Eastern Caribbean Region.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 249-60.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1616

Au: Golofre, Jose Grases.

Ti: Migration of seismic activity in the northern boundary of the Caribbean Plate.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 1-10.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: Among the recent destructive earthquakes associated with the Caribbean Plate, the MS7.6 1976 Guatemala earthquake stands out: ground breakage was mapped along the Motagua fault for nearly 230 Km, with mean left lateral displacements of approximately one metre and local displacement of as much as three times more. The evaluation of previous destructive events in the same area, base on the form and extension of isoseismal maps, leads to comparable Richter magnitude associated with the Polochic-Chixoy fault. This paper explores possible evidence for such a low propagating deformational process along the compound plate boundary. It summarizes the result of a time -space analysis of the destructive and/or large instrumentally recorded events during the 1538-1976 period, with magnitudes at least equal to 7.0 associated with the above mentioned plate border, which is nearly 3500 km long. The total number of events is 113, of which a third reached Mercalli intensities of at least grade vii; a third of these were concomitant with tsunamis. The sequence of occurrence of the 113 earthquakes shows west-east migration patterns. Therefore large events with epicenters towards the eastern end and northern boundary seem to belong to cycles of activity that begin at the northern end of the plate and which take about three and a half centuries to reach the other end. With the available data several cycles of migration can be identified in historical times, recurring 7 to 8 decades and with propagation velocities of 8.5deg/century. The observation described above leads to the identification of relatively small areas some 350-400 km long, where the probability of large earth quakes occurring within the next 10-15 years is much higher than for neighbouring areas. This seems to be the case of five areas identified in the paper, whose total length is about half of the plate boundary length.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1617

Au: Guevara, L. Teresa; Fortoul, Edgar.

Ti: More about the study of floor-plan shape influence on buildings' response to earthquakes.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 329-38.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Science Library.

ID: 1618

Au: Shepherd, John B; Tanner, J. G; Prockter, L.

Ti: Revised estimates of the levels of ground acceleration and velocity with 10 probability of exceedance in any 50-year period for the Trinidad and Tobago region.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 165-75.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1619

Au: Robertson, Richard E. A.

Ti: Risk assessment of the Soufriere Volcano, St. Vincent, W.I.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, July 1994. 230-45.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1620

Au: Key, David.

Ti: Seismic design codes: philosophy, application and effectiveness.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 273-82

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St.Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: The multi-level philosophy applied in typical seismic design codes and its implications are described. The principal areas of concern are ground motion estimates, selection of structure modification factors, infill, live load, soil structure interaction, capacity design, structural concepts and education and awareness. Brief outlines of four seismic structural codes are given- UBC91, Eurocode 8, NZS 4203:1992 and CUBiC.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1621

Au: Wightman, A; chin, B. G; Henderson, P. W.

Ti: Seismic risk mitigation designs for two East Caribbean infrastructure projects.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 311-28.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Science Library.

ID: 1622

Au: Bungum, Hilmar.

Ti: Seismic source evaluation, strong motion attenuation and soil reponse in Central America.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 113-21.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: A project of seismological coorperation has been established between seismological and geotechnical institutions in Norway and six Central American countries. The project, has included work concerned with seismic source evaluation, strong-motion data, seismic wave attenuation, soil response effects, regional seismic hazard, and site-specific hazard. This technical coorperation has been promoted through exchange of personnel both ways research tasks. The present paper provides some of the organizational background, some technical results, and a brief discussion of future plans.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1623

Au: Gomez, Luis Odonel.

Ti: Seismicity and seismic hazard in the Dominican Republic.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 56-64.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: The Dominican Republic occupies two-third of the island of Hispaniola which is located in the Caribbean-North American plate boundary zone. In the past 500 years, the island has been shaken by large earthquakes, the most recent occurring in 1946 and causing widespread destruction. Since the establishment of a telemetred seismic network in 1979, a great amount of microseismic activity has been detected in the north coast area. The Dominican Republic, with an area of 48,000 km2 and a population of seven million people, is one of the countries with the highest seismic risk in the Caribbean.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1624

Au: Smith, Douglas L; Ambeh, William B; Bartoloni, Tony J; Lord, Kenneth M.

Ti: Significance of Caribbean and regional earthquake events in the determination of seismic attenuation and hazard assessment in Florida.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 94-9.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: More than seventy-five percent of seismic events recorded by the by the University of Florida Seismic network (UFL) originate in the circum-Caribbean tectonic region. The proximity of the Florida Plateau to the tectonic features in the circum-Caribbean region demands that earthquake events from the region be incorporated in assessment of seismic hazard for Florida. Data from the recently completed 6-station network, as well as extensive review from record archives from station GAI, have yielded preliminary models of seismic attenuation for the Florida Plateau. Ground motion measurements from more that twenty events originating from the aribbean, Central and South America yield an attenuation coefficient approaching 0.22deg-1.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1625

Au: Osborne, Robin W. A.

Ti: Small unengineered buildings: factors affecting their resistance to earthquake and wind forces.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 358-64.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1626

Au: Doser, Diane I; VanDusen, Shelley R.

Ti: Source processes of large (M6.5) earthquakes of the southern Caribbean (1926-60).

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 12-8.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: Body form inversion studies have been conducted for 13 earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 that has occurred between 1926 and 1960 in the southeastern Caribbean, an area extending from Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, to Cumana, Venezuela. A goal of this research is to provide a better understanding of the long-term spatial and temporal patterns of seismicity and deformation within the region. The results suggests that six shallow (focal depth of 1 to 30 km) earthquake studied reflect intraplate deformation. Shallow events in eastern Venezuela show predominantly right-lateral strike-slip motion, while an event west of Trinidad shows normal faulting. An event in the Barbados trough exhibits right lateral strike-slip faulting. Moderate depth events (40-70 km) show normal faulting at 44km depth. Intermediate depth events (70 km) show left-lateral strike-slip motion beneath the Paria peninsula. A mixture of normal and strike-slip faulting, generally along trends oblique to the arc, is found within the Lesser Antilles.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1627

Au: Rosales, Vanessa.

Ti: Structural and Functional Vulnerability of Hospitals.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 339-44.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: The importance of hospitals as essential facilities that are required to function during and immediately after an earthquake is presented with a description of some of the methodologies that may be used for structural and functional vulnerability assessment, including a short reference on the energy method. General recommendations that may be kept in consideration for the design of this type of building is proposed.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1628

Au: Ramnanan, H.

Ti: The annual variability of tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic - Caribbean Sea - Gulf of Mexico Basin.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 261-70.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-5, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1629

Au: Clarke, R. P; Sharma, A. K.

Ti: The seismic retrofitting of local clay block walls: research in progress.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 345-57.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.

ID: 1630

Au: Wiggins Grandison, Margaret D.

Ti: The earthquake of January 13, 1993, and its implication for earthquake hazard in eastern Jamaica.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Windstorm, Floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 65-76.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St.Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Ab: On January 13, 1993, an earthquake of duration magnitude 5.4 and maximum Modified Mercalli Intensity VII occurred in eastern Jamaica. The hypocentre was 15 km underneath the rural community of Woodford, the southern Wagwater Belt. The latter is fault-bounded, narrow, uplifted, northwest tending trough, separating the Liguanea plains to the south, from the Blue Mountains to the northeast. The seismic activity of the Wagwater Belt was known from numerous small earthquakes recorded by the Jamaica Network of Seismograph Stations over the past thirty years. However, January 13 earthquake was the first earthquake of this size confirmed as having originated in the belt. Hence, it was also seen as the first indication that the Wagwater Belt may be a source zone for larger Jamaican earthquakes. First motion data indicate reverse faulting with a left-lateral strike-slip component. This is consistent with the view of Mann et al. (1985) that the Wagwater Belt is a push-up restraining bend. Further more the earthquake appears to have originated on a buried fault, which is not featured on current geological maps of the island. However a fault having the same trend was mapped by Mately (1951) and more recently, it appears on maps by Mann and Burke (1990). With the January 1993 event new knowledge about the earthquake potential of land based Jamaican faults has been gained. This has serious implications for earthquake risks in eastern Jamaica, particularly since Jamaica's capital city, Kingston, the island's seat of government and commerce, and home of 800,000, is seated on the Liguanea Plain. Further hazard assessment were made with the belief that faults such as the Orient Fracture Zone, the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary which lies some 100km off Jamaica's north coasts, posed the major threat to Kingston, due to the amplification of far source seismic waves in the alluvial sediments. It now seems plausible that the historic incidence of twenty damaging earthquakes per century reported by Shepherd (1971) could be the result of seismic activity on Jamaica itself.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.
ID: 1631

Au: Carby, Barbara E.

Ti: The effect of the January 13,1993, earthquake on the Mona Campus, UWI: The case for a earthquake vulnerability reduction programme.

So: In: Ambeh, William B. ed. Proceedings of the Caribbean conference on natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorm, floods. Kingston, University of the West Indies. Seismic Research Unit, Jul. 1994. 381-8.

Co: Natural hazards: volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods; St. Anns, 11-15, Oct.1993.

Lo: UWI, Mona, Science Library.