EPS SCI 8 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cascadia Subduction Zone, San Andreas Fault, Wasatch Fault
12 Dec 2017
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The size of an earthquake: intensity, magnitude & moment. Earthquake effects (ground shaking, ground settling, liquefaction, landslides & avalanches, fault offset, tsunamis & sieches) human assisted hazards (floods from dam failure or water pipes breakage, fires, toxic spills) Two statistical laws (magnitude statistical distribution, rate of occurrence of aftershocks) Aftershocks (causes, under the valley, size, frequency where) Non conventional sequence (swarms, long range triggering, jumping faults) Plate boundary, nature of boundary, main faults, secondary faults, off-boundary faults. Northern california (san andreas, east bay faults, offshore faults, bay area faults) Rest of the u. s (great basin faults, wasatch fault zone, new madrid, charleston) Why is an earthquake famous? (its size, destruction, particular setting, scientists learned something, proximity) Slip in 1906, 1906 shaking, 1906 indirect effects. Soft soil mechanics (landfills, riverbanks & waterside sites) Using seismic waves (to image the inside of earth) Sounding the earth at shallow depth oil exploration.
