In this list we have tried to include a variety of sources at a variety of reading and complexity levels. Those sources labelled as Basic should be understandable by most people with a high school education and generally discuss earthquakes from a layman's point of view. Those sources labelled as Advanced should be understandable by most college graduates. We would advise only those individuals with strong mathematical backgrounds to attempt the books labelled as Scientific. However, those books labelled as Multiple nearly everyone should get something out of.
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Aki, K. and Richards, P. 1980. Quantitative Seismology : Theory and Methods. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Bath, Markus. 1973. Introduction to Seismology. New York: J. Wiley.
Bolt, Bruce A. 1972. Methods in Computational Physics, Volume 11: Seismology: Surface Waves and Earth Oscillations. New York: Academic Press.
Bolt, Bruce A. 1972. Methods in Computational Physics: Volume 12: Seismology: Body Waves and Sources. New York: Academic Press.
Bolt, Bruce A. 1978. Earthquakes: A Primer. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company.
Bolt, Bruce A. 1980. Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Readings From Scientific American. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company.
Bullen, K. E. 1953. Introduction to the Theory of Seismology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Coffman, Jerry L. and von Hake, Carl A. 1973. Earthquake History of The United States. Boulder, CO: U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environmental Data Service.
Coffman, Jerry L. 1979. Earthquake History of The United States (1971-76 Supplement). Boulder, CO: U. S. Department of Commerce; U. S. Department of the Interior.
Fried, John J. 1973. Life Along The San Andreas Fault. New York: Saturday Review Press.
Fowler, C. M. R. 1990. The Solid Earth: an Introduction to Global Geophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gasparini, P., Scarpa, R., Aki, K., 1992. IAVCEI Proceedings in Volcanology, 3: Volcanic Seismology. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Gupta, Harsh K. 1992. Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, 64: Reservoir-Induced Earthquakes. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
Gubbins, D. 1992. Seismology and Plate Tectonics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kanamori, H. and Boschi, E. 1983. Earthquakes: Observation, Theory and Interpretation. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company.
Kostrov, B.V. and Das, Shamita. 1975. Principles of Earthquake Source Mechanics. Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McGuire, Robin K. 1993. The Practice of Earthquake Hazard Assessment. Denver: International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior.
Mogi, Kiyoo. 1985. Earthquake Prediction. Tokyo, Japan: Academic Press.
Penick, James Jr. 1976. The New Madrid Eathquakes of 1811-1812. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
Powell, Robert E., Weldon, R. J., Matti, Jonathan C. 1993. Geological Society of America (GSA) Memoir, 178: San Andreas Fault System: Displacement, Palinspastic Reconstruction, and Geological Evolution. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America (GSA)
Richter, Charles F. 1958. Elementary Seismology. San Francisco: Freeman.
Scholz, Christopher H. 1990.The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Uyeda, Seiya. 1978.The New View of the Earth: Moving Continents and Moving Oceans. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co.
Wiegel, Robert L. and Bolt, Bruce A. 1970. Earthquake Engineering.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Yong, C., Tsoi, K.-l., Feibi, C., Zhenhuan, G., Qijia, Z., Zhangli, C. 1988. The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976: an Anatomy of Disaster. Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press.
