Hayward Fault and 1868 Earthquake Special Collection

October 21, 2008 marks the 140th anniversary of the 1868 Hayward earthquake, which was the first great “San Francisco earthquake” and one of the most damaging earthquakes in the nation's history. The Seismological Society of America is commemorating this event by creating a virtual special issue of BSSA. This list of previously published BSSA articles focus on the Hayward earthquake and associated research.

The links take you to the article online. If it is in PDF-only, you will be taken to a download page. If it is full-text, you will be taken to the abstract and may choose to either download the PDF or read the full text online.

This project was initiated and pursued by Bill Rinehart. Tom Brocher and Keith Knudsen helped Bill select the final list of articles to be included. All of the articles selected were previously published in BSSA under the normal BSSA publication process.

1929 - John P. Buwalda
Nature of the late movements on the Haywards rift, central California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1929 19:4 pp.187-199

1930 - Walter L. Huber
San Francisco earthquakes of 1865 and 1868
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1930 20:4 pp.261-272

1949 - Hyde Forbes
Effect of Niles-Irvington section of the Haywards fault
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1949 39:4 pp.243-247

1966 - Lloyd S. Cluff, and Karl V. Steinbrugge
Hayward fault slippage in the Irvington-Niles districts of Fremont, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.257-279

1966 - M. G. Bonilla
Deformation of railroad tracks by slippage on the Hayward fault in the Niles District of Fremont, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.281-289

1966 - F. B. Blanchard, and G. L. Laverty
Displacements in the Claremont Water Tunnel at the intersection with the Hayward fault
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.291-294

1966 - Dorothy H. Radbruch, and Ben J. Lennert
Damage to culvert under memorial stadium, University of California, Berkeley, caused by slippage in the Hayward fault zone
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.295-304

1966 - Bruce A. Bolt, and Walter C. Marion
Instrumental measurement of slippage on the Hayward fault
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.305-316

1966 - A. J. Pope, J. L. Stearn, and C. A. Whitten
Surveys for crustal movement along the Hayward fault
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1966 56:2 pp.317-323

1982 - William H. Prescott
Circumstances surrounding the preparation and suppression of a report on the 1868 California earthquake
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1982 72:6A pp.2389-2393

1986 - Michele L. Aldrich, Bruce A. Bolt, Alan E. Leviton, and Peter U. Rodda
The 'Report' of the 1868 Haywards earthquake
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1986 76:1 pp.71-76

1991 - Charles A. Langston, and Charles J. Ammon
Scattering of teleseismic body waves along the hayward-calaveras fault system
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1991 81:2 pp.576-591

1998 - Tousson R. Toppozada, and Glenn Borchardt
Re-evaluation of the 1836 "Hayward fault" and the 1838 San Andreas fault earthquakes
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1998 88:1 pp.140-159

1998 - Tom Parsons
Seismic-reflection evidence that the Hayward fault extends into the lower crust of the San Francisco Bay area, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1998 88:5 pp.1212-1223

1999 - William H. Bakun
Seismic activity of the San Francisco Bay region
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1999 89:3 pp.764-784

2000 - Felix Waldhauser, and William L. Ellsworth
A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2000 90:6 pp.1353-1368

2002 - James J. Lienkaemper, Timothy E. Dawson, Stephen F. Personius, Gordon G. Seitz, Liam M. Reidy, and David P. Schwartz
A Record of Large Earthquakes on the Southern Hayward Fault for the Past 500 Years
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2002 92:7 pp.2637-2658

2003 - D. A. Ponce, T. G. Hildenbrand, and R. C. Jachens
Gravity and Magnetic Expression of the San Leandro Gabbro with Implications for the Geometry and Evolution of the Hayward Fault Zone, Northern California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2003 93:1 pp.14-26

2003 - Haijiang Zhang, and Clifford H. Thurber
Double-Difference Tomography: The Method and Its Application to the Hayward Fault, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2003 93:5 pp.1875-1889

2003 - Tom Parsons, Ray Sliter, Eric L. Geist, Robert C. Jachens, Bruce E. Jaffe, Amy Foxgrover, Patrick E. Hart, and Jill Mccarthy
Structure and Mechanics of the Hayward-Rodgers Creek Fault Step-Over, San Francisco Bay, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2003 93:5 pp.2187-2200

2003 - Jon S. Galehouse, and James J. Lienkaemper
Inferences Drawn from Two Decades of Alinement Array Measurements of Creep on Faults in the San Francisco Bay Region
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2003 93:6 pp.2415-2433

2005 - David M. Manaker, Andrew J. Michael, and Roland Burgmann
Subsurface Structure and Kinematics of the Calaveras-Hayward Fault Stepover from Three-Dimensional Vp and Seismicity, San Francisco Bay Region, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2005 95:2 pp.446-470

2007 - Jeanne L. Hardebeck, Andrew J. Michael, and Thomas M. Brocher
Seismic Velocity Structure and Seismotectonics of the Eastern San Francisco Bay Region, California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2007 97:3 pp.826-842

2007 - James J. Lienkaemper, and Patrick L. Williams
A Record of Large Earthquakes on the Southern Hayward Fault for the Past 1800 Years
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2007 97:6 pp.1803-1819

2008 - Stephen Harmsen, Stephen Hartzell, and Pengcheng Liu
Simulated Ground Motion in Santa Clara Valley, California, and Vicinity from M³6.7 Scenario Earthquakes
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2008 98:3 pp.1243-1271

Hayward Fault and 1868 Earthquake Special Collection

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