Credits
Excerpts From "The REAL Dirt on Liquefaction"
Principal Report Author

Jeanne B. Perkins - Earthquake Program Manager, Association of Bay Area Governments

Support

DATABASE PROGRAMMING – Fred Parkinson – Systems Programmer

CARTOGRAPHY and COLOR LAYOUT – Kearey Smith and Vicki Rutherford

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS – Susannah Belding, Stuart Lowe, Michael Smith, and Robert Swierk

ABAG Management

Eugene Y. Leong - Executive Director
Acknowledgments

ABAG would like to specifically acknowledge Keith Knudsen for his extensive efforts to ensure the scientific accuracy of this report.

ABAG also would like to acknowledge the efforts of the following members of the ABAG Earthquake Hazard Mapping Review Committee for their thoughtful comments on the material that forms a basis for this document.

Earthquake Hazard Mapping Review Committee
Bill Ward – Committee Chair – Councilmember, City of Hayward
Catherine Bauman – Planner, City Planning Department, City and County of San Francisco
Edward Bortugno / Scott McAfee – Calif. Office of Emergency Services – Coastal Region
Arrieta Chakos – Office of the City Manager, Berkeley
Tom Holzer / Mike Bennett – Geologists, U.S. Geological Survey
Stephan Kiefer – Building Official, City of Livermore
Keith Knudsen – Senior Engineering Geologist, California Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG)
William Lettis / John Baldwin – William Lettis & Associates
Dale Marcum / Bill Cotton – Geologist, Cotton, Shires and Associates
Carl Mortensen – Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey
Carol Prentice – Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
Doug Sandy – Assistant Director – Disaster Services, American Red Cross – Bay Area
William ("Woody") Savage – Sr. Seismologist, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
Richard Scott – Principal Engineering Technician, City of Novato
William Schock – Building Official, Development Services, City of San Leandro
Michael Shimamoto – Geologist, Public Works Department, City of San José
Ted Smith – Supervising Geologist, California Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG)
The writing and production of this report was funded by Grant Nos. 1434-HQ-97-GR-03048 and 1434-HQ-97-GR-03121 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as well as by the Association of Bay Area Governments and William Lettis & Associates, Inc. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.


ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments, is the regional planning and services agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The liquefaction hazard map information was last updated by ABAG in April, 2001.

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