Hugo Benioff
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American seismologist
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Hugo Benioff's Degrees
- PhD Geophysics California Institute of Technology
- Bachelors Physics California Institute of Technology
Why Is Hugo Benioff Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Victor Hugo Benioff was an American seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.
Hugo Benioff's Published Works
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Published Works
- Earthquakes and rock creep(Part I: Creep characteristics of rocks and the origin of aftershocks) (1951) (229)
- Excitation of the free oscillations of the Earth by earthquakes (1961) (215)
- Orogenesis and deep crustal structure -- additional evidence from seismology (1954) (175)
- SEISMIC EVIDENCE FOR THE FAULT ORIGIN OF OCEANIC DEEPS (1949) (168)
- A linear strain seismograph (1935) (119)
- Observations of geomagnetic fluctuations in the period range 0.3 to 120 seconds (1960) (96)
- The physical evaluation of seismic destructiveness (1934) (80)
- Seismic Evidence for Crustal Structure and Tectonic Activity (1955) (77)
- Global Strain Accumulation and Release as Revealed by Great Earthquakes (1951) (69)
- Waves and Currents Recorded by Electromagnetic Barographs (1939) (66)
- FUSED-QUARTZ EXTENSOMETER FOR SECULAR, TIDAL, AND SEISMIC STRAINS (1959) (61)
- Earthquake Source Mechanisms. (1964) (52)
- Source wave forms of three earthquakes (1963) (44)
- Movements on Major Transcurrent Faults (1962) (42)
- Long-period surface waves from the Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960, recorded on linear strain seismographs (1961) (41)
- The aftershock sequence of the Kamchatka earthquake of November 4, 1952 (1958) (40)
- A new vertical seismograph (1932) (37)
- Long waves observed in the Kamchatka earthquake of November 4, 1952 (1958) (34)
- Progress Report on Long Period Seismographs (1958) (33)
- Searching for the Earth's free oscillations (1959) (33)
- Upper Limit for Interstellar Millicycle Gravitational Radiation (1961) (30)
- Sound Waves in the Atmosphere Generated by a Small Earthquake. (1951) (30)
- Contributions in geophysics in honor of Beno Gutenberg (1958) (28)
- Progress Report, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1950 (1951) (26)
- Earthquake Seismographs and Associated Instruments (1955) (25)
- Circum-Pacific tectonics (1957) (21)
- The determination of the extent of faulting with application to the Long Beach earthquake (1938) (19)
- Atmospheric-pressure waves near Pasadena (1941) (19)
- The response of strain and pendulum seismographs to surface waves (1952) (18)
- Observations with Electromagnetic Microbarographs (1939) (15)
- Colloquium on plastic flow and deformation within the Earth (1951) (14)
- A second study of blasting recorded in Southern California (1933) (11)
- The Mammoth “earthquake fault” and related features in Mono County, California (1939) (8)
- Long-period seismographs (1960) (5)
- 8 – MEASUREMENTS OF STRAIN IN THE EARTH'S CRUST (1965) (2)
- Factors Contributing to the Multiple Decrement of Piano Tone Envelope (1956) (2)
- Progress Report, Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, 1957 (1958) (2)
- Earthquake study in southern California, 1948 (1949) (1)
- Seismological Instruments Developed at C.I.T. (1948) (1)
- REVIEW: EDDINGTON'S "THE INTERIOR OF A STAR" (1919) (1)
- PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE APPLICATION OF THREE-ELEMENT VACUUM TUBES TO STELLAR PHOTOMETRY (1924) (0)
- THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, JANUARY 24, 1925 (1923) (0)
- A LIST OF TOTAL ECLIPSES OF THE SUN TO 1952 (1923) (0)
- Report of the Committee on Infiltration, 1947–1948 (1949) (0)
- STUDY OF FREE AND FORCED OSCILLATIONS OF THE EARTH (1965) (0)
- Seismological Aspect of Arvin Earthquake: ABSTRACT (1953) (0)
- An investigation of microseisms : final report under contract No. AF19(122)436 (1956) (0)
- The Operating Frequency of Regenerative Oscillatory Systems (1931) (0)
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