USGS SHIPS

SHIPS website Table of Contents

Seismic Hazards Investigation in Puget Sound (SHIPS)

Project overview
SHIPS Consortium members
Regional map
Environmental issues
safe zone for marine mammals
airgun description
analysis of underwater sound propagation
press release on marine mammal observations
coincident fish kill, not related to SHIPS
Past occurrences of earthquakes
Seismic velocities

Chi-Chi recordings
Amplification in the Seattle Basin
Experiments
(Wet) SHIPS
Map of stations on land
Photo gallery
Photos 0 - getting ready to go
Photos 1 - building airgun gantry
Photos 2 - loading ships
Photos 3 - on board
Photos 4 - heading home
DrySHIPS locations
Kingdome SHIPS
Seattle
Bellingham SHIPS
Tacoma
NY Times article
SHIPS results
SHIPS helped delineate and characterize the Tacoma fault
SHIPS maps serpentinized (hydrated) upper mantle beneath puget lowland
SHIPS contributes to a new model for the Seattle and Tacoma fault zones
SHIPS images subducting slab beneath Puget Lowland
SHIPS images the Georgia Basin north of the San Juan Islands
Kingdome shaking movie
Trehu 2000 NEHRP report pdf html
USGS SHIPS Information Sheet pdf html
Miller and Snelson 2000 NEHRP report pdf html
Publications
Publications list by topics
Ground Amplification Studies
Upper Mantle Structure and Subducting Slab Geometry
Seattle Fault and Basin
Georgia Basin and Vancouver Island
Tacoma Fault and Basin
People

Links to Information outiside this website

Seattle Project IMPACT
Shaking Produced by Kingdome
Paleoseismology in the Puget Sound
USGS Fact Sheets
Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest
Airborne Hunt for Faults in the Portland-Vancouver Area
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