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  • Bufe, Charles G., 2005, Stress distribution along the Fairweather-Queen Charlotte transform fault system, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., v. 95, n. 5, p. 2001–2008.
  • Bufe, Charles G., and Perkins, David M., 2005, Evidence for a global seismic-moment release sequence, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. V. 95, n. 3, p 833–843.
  • Bufe, Charles G., 2004, Stress transfer to the Denali and other regional faults from the M 9.2 Alaska earthquake of 1964, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. V. 94, n. 6B, p. S145–S155.
  • Bufe, Charles G., 2004, Comparing the November 2002 Denali and November 2001 Kunlun earthquakes, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. V. 94, n. 3, p. 1159–1165.
  • Petersen, M.D., Mueller, C., Harmsen, S., Frankel, A.D., Rukstales, K., Dewey, J., Hartzell, S., 2004, Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for Sumatra, Indonesia and across the southern Malaysian Peninsula, Tectonophysics, v. 390, p. 141–158.
  • Petersen, M.D., B.K. Rastogi, E.S. Schweig, S. Harmsen, and J.S. Gomberg, 2004, Sensitivity of seismic hazard for the northwestern portion of the state of Gujarat, India, Tectonophysics, 390, 105-115.
  • Wesson, Robert L, Perkins, David M, Leyendecker, Edgar V, Roth, Richard J, Jr, Petersen, Mark D, 2004, Losses to single-family housing and ground motions from the 1994 Northridge, CA, earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, v. 20, n. 3, p. 1021–1045.
  • Harmsen, S.C., Frankel, A. D., and Petersen, M. D., 2003, Deaggregation of U.S. Seismic Hazard Sources: The 2002 Update, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-440. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/ofr-03-440/
  • Wesson, Robert L, Bakun, William H, and Perkins, David M, 2003, Association of Earthquakes and Faults in the San Francisco Bay Area Using Bayesian Inference, Bull Seis Soc Am, v. 93, n.3, p. 1306–1332.
  • Mueller, C.S., A.D. Frankel, M.D. Petersen, E.V. Leyendecker, 2003, Documentation for 2003 USGS seismic hazard maps for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-379.
  • Petersen, M.D., C.H. Cramer, and A.D. Frankel, 2002, Simulations of seismic hazard for the Pacific Northwest of the United States from earthquakes associated with the Cascadia subduction zone, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 159, p 2147-2168.
  • Cramer, Chris H, Wheeler, Russell L., and Mueller, Charles S., 2002, Uncertainty analysis for seismic hazard in the Southern Illinois Basin, Seismological Research letters, v. 73, n. 5, p. 792–804.
  • Haller Kathleen M., Wheeler, Russell L., and Rukstales, Kenneth S., 2002, Documentation of changes in fault parameters for the 2002 National Seismic Hazard Maps—Conterminous United States except California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-467, 42 p.
  • Perkins, David M., 2002, Uncertainty in Probabilistic Ground Motion Analysis, in Taylor, Craig, and VanMarcke, Erik, Acceptable Risk Processes: Lifeline and Natural Hazards; ASCE, Council on Disaster Reduction and Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Monograph No. 21, p. 19–60.
  • Wheeler, Russell L., and Cramer, Chris H., 2002, Updated seismic hazard in the Southern Illinois Basin: Geological and geophysical foundations for use in the 2002 USGS National seismic-hazard maps, Seismological Research letters, v. 73, n. 5 p. 776–791
  • Wheeler, Russell L., 2002, Distinguishing seismic from nonseismic soft-sediment structures: Criteria from seismic-hazard analysis, in Ettensohn, F.R., Rast, N., and Brett, C.E., eds., Ancient seismites: Geological Society of America Special Paper 359, p. 1–11.
  • Arthur D. Frankel, Mark D. Petersen, Charles S. Mueller, Kathleen M. Haller, Russell L. Wheeler, E. V. Leyendecker, Robert L. Wesson, Stephen C. Harmsen, Chris H. Cramer, David M. Perkins, and Kenneth S. Rukstales, Documentation for the 2002 Update of the National Seismic Hazard Maps, Open-file Report 02-420
  • Frankel, A.D., M.D. Petersen, C.S. Mueller, K.M. Haller, R.L. Wheeler, E.V. Leyendecker, R.L. Wesson, S.C. Harmsen, C.H. Cramer, D.M. Perkins, K.S. Rukstales, 2002, Documentation for the 2002 update of the national seismic hazard maps, USGS Open-File Report 02-420.
  • Harmsen, S. and A. Frankel, 2001. Geographic deaggregation of seismic hazard in the United States, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 91, 13-26.
  • Harmsen, S., 2001. Mean and modal epsilon in the deaggregation of probabilistic ground motion, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 91, 1537-1552.
  • Wesson, Robert L., and Perkins, David M., 2001, Spatial correlation of probabilistic earthquake ground motion and loss, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., v. 91, n. 6, pp. 1498–1515.
  • Wheeler, Russell L., and Crone, Anthony J., 2001, Known and suggested quaternary faulting in the mid-continent United States, Engineering Geology, v. 62, p. 51–78.
  • Perkins, David M., 2000, Fuzzy sources, maximum likelihood, and the new methodology, in Seismicity modeling in seismic hazard mapping, Workshop Proceedings, Poljce, Slovenia, May 2224, 2000, Geological Survey, Republic of Slovenia, p. 6775. Also in A unified approach toward probabilistic risk assessment for earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes, Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Workshop held in Golden, Colorado, November 16-17, 1999, Compiled by Aldo V. Vecchia, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-324, p. 4756.
  • Wheeler, Russell l., and Frankel, Arthur, 2000, Geology in the 1996 USGS seismic-hazard maps, central and eastern United States, Seismological Research letters, v. 71, n. 2, p. 273–282.
  • Field, E.H. and M.D. Petersen, 2000, A test of various site-effect parameterizations in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of southern California, Bull. Seis.. Soc. Amer., 90, S222-S244.
  • Petersen, M.D., Cramer, C.H., A.D. Frankel, and T. Hanks, 2000, Discrepancy between earthquake rates implied by historic earthquakes and a consensus geologic source model for California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 90, 1117-1132.
  • Cramer, C.H., M.D. Petersen, T. Cao, T.R. Toppozada, and M. Reichle, 2000, A time-dependent probabilistic seismic hazard model for California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 90, 1-21.
  • M.D. Petersen, C.H. Cramer, T. R. Toppozada, M. Reichle, and J.D. Davis, 1999, The calculation of expected loss using probabilistic seismic hazard, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer, 89, 867-876.
  • Cramer, C. H., M.D. Petersen, and M.S. Reichle, 1996, A Monte Carlo approach in estimating uncertainty for a seismic hazard assessment of Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange counties, California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 86, 1681-1691.
  • Russell L. Wheeler and David M. Perkins, 2000, Research, methodology, and applications of probabilistic seismic-hazard mapping of the central and eastern United States - Minutes of a workshop on June 13-14, 2000, at Saint Louis University : U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 00-0390
  • A. D. Frankel, C. S. Mueller, T. P. Barnhard, E. V. Leyendecker, R. L. Wesson, S. C. Harmsen, F. W. Klein, D. M. Perkins, N. C. Dickman, S. L. Hanson, and M. G. Hopper, USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps, Earthquake Spectra, Professional Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2000
  • Wesson, Robert, Frankel, Arthur, Mueller, Charles, and Harmsen, Stephen, 1999, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey, File Report 99-36
  • Wesson, Robert, Frankel, Arthur, Mueller, Charles, and Harmsen, Stephen, 1999, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2679
  • Harmsen, Stephen, Perkins, David, and Frankel, Arthur, 1999, Deaggregation of Probabilistic Ground Motions in the Central and Eastern United States: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 1-13, February 1999
  • Mueller, Charles, Hopper, Margaret, and Frankel, Arthur, 1997, Preparation of Earthquake Catalogs for the National Seismic-Hazard Maps: Contiguous 48 States: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 97-464
  • Wheeler, Russell L., 1997, Boundary separating the seismically active Reelfoot rift from the sparsely seismic Rough Creek graben, Kentucky and Illinois: Seismological Research Letters, v. 68, no. 4, p. 586-598.
  • Frankel, Arthur, Mueller, Charles, Barnhard, Theodore, Perkins, David, Leyendecker, E. V., Dickman, Nancy, Hanson, Stanley, and Hopper, Margaret, 1997, National 1996 Seismic Hazard Maps: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 97-131.
  • Frankel, Arthur, Mueller, Charles, Barnhard, Theodore, Perkins, David, Leyendecker, E. V., Dickman, Nancy, Hanson, Stanley, and Hopper, Margaret, 1997, California/Nevada 1996 Seismic Hazard Maps: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 97-130.
  • Frankel, Arthur, Mueller, Charles, Barnhard, Theodore, Perkins, David, Leyendecker, E.V., Dickman, Nancy, Hanson, Stanley, and Hopper, Margaret, 1996, National Seismic Hazard Maps, June 1996, Documentation: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 96-532, 100 p.
  • Rogers, A.M. ,and Perkins, D.M., 1996, Monte Carlo simulation of peak-acceleration attenuation using a finite-fault uniform-patch model including isochron and extremal characteristics: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 79-92.
  • Wheeler, Russell L., 1996, Earthquakes and the southeastern boundary of the intact Iapetan margin in eastern North America: Seismological Research Letters, v. 67, no. 5, p. 77-83.
  • Frankel, Arthur, 1995, Mapping seismic hazard in the Central and Eastern United States: Seismological Research Letters, v. 66, no. 4, p. 8-21.
  • Frankel, Arthur, 1995, Simulating strong motions of large earthquakes using recordings of small earthquakes -- The Loma Prieta mainshock as a test case: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 462-465.
  • Leyendecker, E.V., Perkins, D.M., Algermissen, S.T., Thenhaus, P.C., and Hanson, S.L., 1995, USGS spectral response maps and their relationship with seismic design forces in building codes: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 95-596
  • Hanson, Stanley L. and Perkins, David M., 1995, Seismic sources and recurrence rates as adopted by USGS staff for the production of the 1982 and 1990 probabilistic ground motion maps for Alaska and the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 95-257
  • Wheeler, Russell L., 1995, Earthquakes and the cratonward limit of Iapetan faulting in eastern North America: Geology, v. 23, no. 2, p. 105-108.
  • Frankel, Arthur, 1994, Implications of felt area-magnitude relations for earthquake scaling and the average frequency of perceptible ground motion: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 462-465.
  • Frankel, Arthur, 1994, Dense array recordings in the San Bernardino Valley of Landers-Big Bear aftershocks-Basin surface waves, Moho reflections, and three-dimensional simulations: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 613-624.
  • Leyendecker, E.V., Algermissen, S.T., and Frankel, A.D., 1994, Use of spectral response maps and uniform hazard response spectra in building codes: Proceedings of the 5th U.S. Conference on Earthquake Engineering, v. IV, p. 379-387, Earthquake Research Institute.
  • Frankel, Arthur, 1993, Three-dimensional simulations of ground motions in the San Bernardino Valley, California, for hypothetical earthquakes on the San Andreas fault: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 83, p. 1020-1041.
  • Hanson, Stanley, Thenhaus, Paul, Chapman-Wilbert, Michelle, and Perkins, David, 1992, Analyst's Manual for USGS Seismic Hazard Programs Adapted to the Macintosh Computer System: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-529.
  • Arnold, Edward, 1989, Program SEISRISK III Adapted to Personal computers: Open-File Report 89-557.
  • Bender, Bernice and Perkins, David, 1987, SEISRISK III: A Computer Program for Seismic Hazard Estimation: U.S. Geological Survey BULLETIN 1772.