GLY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: 1886 Charleston Earthquake, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Charleston International Airport
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How widely was the charleston earthquake felt over most of the region east of the mississippi river. Charleston was founded when long before the revolutionary war. Mr sloan found through his study of earthquakes and rail disturbances how many epicentral regions of earthquakes in the charleston region. Most earthquake deaths in charleston were from crushing injuries from falling walls, gables, cornices etc. South carolina disaster preparedness tends to focus most on hurricanes. A goal of dutton and his groups"s investigations of the charleston earthquakes was to determine the distribution of relative instensity by way of isoseismals which are lines of equal relative intensity. Charleston is on the ______________, a wide swath or almost flat-lying, thick, seimentary rocks that dip or slope gently toward the shore and beyond to the continental shelf margin. Can the pattern of brick-laying and the type of mortar make any difference in the strength of walls, according to charleston post-earthquake structural studies.
