U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 96-705

DATABASE OF POTENTIAL SOURCES FOR EARTHQUAKES LARGER THAN
MAGNITUDE 6 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

By The Working Group on Northern California Earthquake Potential

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people have kindly contributed unpublished data, ideas, and preprints of their work in review and we have tried to acknowledge and reference their contributions in the text, tables, and figures. Special thanks must given to R.E. Wells, D.F. Argus, R.W. Simpson, P.A. McCrory, M.N. Machette and S. Hecker for their assistance in analyzing plate vectors and VLBI data. R.W. Simpson made possible the review website and gave an especially thorough, constructive, and timely review to this report. We also thank W. B. Joyner for his constructive review of the report.

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