USGS SHIPS

Project Overview
Wet SHIPS (March 1998)
Dry Ships (September 1999)
KingdomeSHIPS (March 2000)

2001-2002 Experiments
Seattle SHIPS (January-May 2002)
Tacoma SHIPS (in planning)
Bellincgham SHIPS (May 2002)

SHIPS is a U.S./Canadian Consortium funded entirely by the U.S. Geological Survey to provide public information for mitigating a potential earthquakedisaster in the Pacific Northwest

SHIPS is an ongoing experiment

SHIPS in the News

Project IMPACT

Shaking Produced by Kingdome (ground motion movies)

Other SHIPS results

  • UPDATE—> Wet and Dry SHIPS Open File Reports are available, as well as the digitial data from these projects, from the IRIS/PASSCAL website.

Earthquake Hazards Fact sheets

PUBLICATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Canadian SHIPS ship

Canadian Research Vessel John P. Tully (240 feet long)

UW research ship

University of Washington Research Vessel Thomas G. Thompson (285 feet long)


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