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Marine Geologic Maps off Luquillo, Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Hurricane Hugo struck Puerto Rico on September 18, 1989, with maximum sustained winds of 225 km/hr and a minimum sea-level pressure of 934 mb causing extensive damage to the coastal infrastructure (RodrÃguez and others, 1994). |
 | | Historical vertical aerial photographs of the Puerto Rico shoreline were examined using the methodology outlined in Danforth and Thieler (1992a, 1992b) for the purpose of delineating shoreline change from the period of 1901 to 1987 (Thieler, 1993). |
 | | Although Puerto Rico lies within the plate boundary zone between the North American and Caribbean plates, an area of high seismicity and tectonic activity (Sykes and others, 1982; Mann and Burke, 1984), evidence of active faulting was not evident on data collected during this study. |
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