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Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal and former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa and Asia. It is the second most used surname in Sri Lanka. Fernando is a common surname among the Sinhala speaking people. It is equivalent to the Germanic given name Ferdinand, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey". Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: FernandoA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy in islands of high ecological value: The cases of Galápagos, Fernando de Noronha, and PríncipeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: La CelestinaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An improved method for determining the regional stress tensor using earthquake focal mechanism data: Application to the San Fernando Earthquake SequenceCited 1,019 times
- Go sideways: RodrigoA closely related topic
- Go sideways: FranciscoA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
An improved method for determining the regional stress tensor using earthquake focal mechanism data: Application to the San Fernando Earthquake Sequence
Aseismic design implications of near‐fault san fernando earthquake records
Site amplification in the San Fernando Valley, California: Variability of site-effect estimation using theS-wave, coda, andH/Vmethods
Earthquake-Induced Structures in Sediments of Van Norman Lake, San Fernando, California
Here, there and everywhere. Small plastic fragments and pellets on beaches of Fernando de Noronha (Equatorial Western Atlantic)
Movement patterns of young Caribbean reef sharks, Carcharhinus perezi, at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil: the potential of marine protected areas for conservation of a nursery ground
The Slides in the San Fernando Dams During the Earthquake of February 9, 1971
The effect of simple topography on seismic waves: Implications for the accelerations recorded at Pacoima Dam, San Fernando Valley, California
🆕 Influential since 2022
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy in islands of high ecological value: The cases of Galápagos, Fernando de Noronha, and Príncipe
Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method
Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje
Quantitative ecological risk assessment of oil spills: The case of the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago
Liquefaction-induced large deformation method with automatic time-step mapping and interfacial interpolation improvement: Case study of the San Fernando dam
📚 Books worth reading
La CelestinaFernando de Rojas · 1899
Livro do DesassossegoFernando Pessoa · 1982
CelestinaFernando de Rojas · 1502
BoteroFernando Botero, Rudy Chiappini · 1970
Fernando BoteroFernando Botero, Edward J. Sullivan · 1972
PoemsFernando Pessoa · 1945
El político don Fernando el Católico de Lorenzo GraciánBaltasar Gracián y Morales, Evaristo Correa Calderón · 1934
Bicycle ridesDon Brundige, Donald G. Brundige · 1987
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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