Ancient Earthquakes at Lake Lucerne

Abstract

Michael Schnellmann is currently pursuing a doc torate in geology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E ) in Zurich. His thesis advisor, Flavio S. Anselmetti, received his Ph.D. from E in 1994. He then spent four years in postdoctoral training at the University of Miami. There Ansel metti gained considerable experience studying ma rine sediments before he returned to his native Switzerland and joined the Geological Institute at E , where he currently heads the Limnogeology Laboratory. Domenico Giardini received his Ph.D. at the University of Bologna in 1987. Since 1997 he has been a professor of seismology and geodynamics at the Institute of Geophysics at E and the direc tor of the Swiss Seismological Service. Between 1992 and 1999, he served as director of the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program for the UN's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduc tion. Judith A. McKenzie obtained a doctorate in ge ology from E in 1976. During her studies in Zurich and later, while working at the University of Florida in Gainesville, she investigated the chemical and biochemical sedimentation in both modern lakes