the sudden release of energy in the earth’s crust
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EARTHQUAKES
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Earthquake
The sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust
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Fault
A break in the Earth’s crust where movement takes place because of tectonic plate movement
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NORMAL FAULT The hanging wall has moved down
relative to the footwall. (land moves away)
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Split Mtn. Gorge
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REVERSE FAULT
The hanging wall has moved up relative to the footwall
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Jazida do Urubu, Brazil
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STRIKE-SLIP
Movement is horizontal and parallel http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/flash/8_1.swf
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Focus
The place inside Earth where the earthquake wave began
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Epicenter
The place on the surface of earth directly above the focus
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Seismic Waves
Body waves: earthquake waves that travel through the layers of the Earth
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Primary Waves (P-waves) Fastest Travel through solids, liquids and gases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Onde_co
mpression_impulsion_1d_30_petit.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ondes_compression_2d_20_petit.gif
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Secondary Waves (S-waves)
Slower and travel only through solids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Onde_cisa
illement_impulsion_1d_30_petit.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ondes_cis
aillement_2d_20_petit.gif
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Surface Waves
Earthquake waves that travel only through the crust
Slowest but cause more damage
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Love and Rayleigh Waves
Love: move rock side-to-side
Rayleigh: move rock in circles
Animations
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Richter scale
Measures the size of Earthquakes by recording the arrival times of seismic waves
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Japan March 2011 9.0 undersea earthquake Tsunami with 38 m waves that moved 10 km
inland 18,000 dead 4711 injured 14,921 missing 125,000 damaged or destroyed buildings Energy: 600 million times Hiroshima bomb Moved Japan 2.4 m closer to the Americas Dropped 400 km vertically by over 2 feet 900 aftershock earthquakes
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Soil Liquification
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Japan 2011
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Japan March 2011 The earthquake shifted the Earth's axis by 25 cm
(9.8 in). This deviation led to a number of small planetary
changes, including the length of a day and the tilt of the Earth.
The speed of the Earth's rotation increased, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds due to the redistribution of Earth's mass.
The axial shift was caused by the redistribution of mass on the Earth's surface, which changed the planet's moment of inertia. Because of conservation of angular momentum, such changes of inertia result in small changes to the Earth's rate of rotation. These are expected changes for an earthquake of this magnitude.
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Haiti 2010
7.0 magnitude 52 aftershocks
larger than 4.5 magnitude
316,000 died 300,000 injured 1 million homeless
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Sumatra
2010 7.8 magnitude Caused tsunami
3 m high 600 m inland
20,000 lost their homes
435 killed 100’s missing
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San Francisco
1906 Caused a great fire $5 Billion worth of
damage Magnitude 7.9 3,000 deaths San Andreas fault
shifted 296 miles
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Pakistan
2005 7.6 Magnitude 79,000 deaths $5.4 billion damages
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Alaska 1964 Magnitude
9.2 10,000
aftershocks Triggered a
Tsunami Reverse
fault
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Alaska 1964
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Chile
1960 Magnitude 9.5 Largest ever $500 Billion 6000 dead Tsunami hit
Chile, Hawaii, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/10_largest_world.php