Managua, Nicaragua
The death toll of this earthquake was about 6,000.
We welcome contributions of digital files of materials relating to the Managua
earthquake and financial donations to the endowment fund so that more seismograms
can be scanned and made available online. In addition, an archivist is
needed to edit and maintain this Archive. If you are interested,
please contact W.H.K. Lee at <lee@usgs.gov>
(office) or <whklee@ix.netcom.com> (home).
Archivist: A volunteer is needed.
Contributors of Files: Charles R. Hutt, and William H. K. Lee.
1.
Seismograms
of the 1972 Managua (Nicaragua) Earthquake:
Please click the above link to view the selected seismograms of the 1972 Managua
earthquake recorded by the WWSSN stations.
link to compressed
tif file directory (.gz format)
2. References:
Brown, R. D., P. L.
Ward, and G. Plafker (1973). Geologic and seismologic aspects of the Managua, Nicaragua,
earthquakes of December 23, 1972. U. S.
Geological Survey Profession Paper 838, 35 pp.
EERI (1973). Conference Proceedings of the
Managua, Nicaragua earthquake of December 23, 1973. 2 volumes, Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA, 975
pp.
Sozen, M. A., and R. B. Matthiesen (1975). Engineering report on the
Managua earthquake of 23 December 1972. Report submitted to
the Committee on Natural Disaster, NRC, National Academy of
Sciences, Washington, D.C., 111 pp.
(Last Updated: November 6,
2004)
