Quakeline Database
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: QUAKELINE® is a bibliographic database of about 40,000 records covering earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics. It includes records for various publication types, such as journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, maps, and videotapes. Produced by the MCEER Information Service, which possesses all documents cited in the database.
Also see:
- Full text of The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 , a Caltech technical report by Liu Huixian, George W. Housner, Xie Lili, and He Duxin (2002).
- Significant Earthquake Database - contains information on destructive earthquakes from 2150 B.C. to the present that meet at least one of the following criteria: Moderate damage (approximately $1 million or more), 10 or more deaths, Magnitude 7.5 or greater, Modified Mercalli Intensity X or greater, or the earthquake caused a tsunami (from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) .
- Earthquake Intensity Database Search 1638-1985 - a collection of damage and felt reports for over 23,000 U.S. earthquakes.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Environmental Studies
Geography & Maps
Publicly Available Resources
Science & Technology
Technical Reports and Standards
Related Databases
GEOBASE
GeoRef
National Technical Information Service
Related Links
ASCE Civil Engineering Database
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Other Related Links:
Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports
MCEER Computerized Literature Searches
U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
