PPT-Defining an Earthquake Procedure

Pick up materials for the model Assemble your model Explore the behavior of the model and consider the following How this might this model represent the earthquake process Earthquake Machine. Magnitude 8.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS . Wednesday, 6 February, 2013 at 01:12:23 UTC. Australia. Magnitude 8.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS . Wednesday, 6 February, 2013 at 01:12:23 UTC. Tsunami model amplitude information is shown colour-coded to the scale. Filled colours show maximum computed tsunami amplitude in cm during 24 hours of wave propagation. Black contours show computed tsunami arrival time. . Andrei Gabrielov. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN, USA. www.math.purdue.edu/~agabriel. San Francisco, April 18, 1906. Plate Tectonics. Major tectonic plates and world seismicity. Plate Tectonics. :. What You Need To Know. Tsunami Outreach Oregon. Oregon Department of . Geology . and Mineral Industries . Cascadia Earthquake: Key Messages. A local Cascadia earthquake will probably happen in most people’s lifetime or their children’s lifetime.. Magnitude 2.9 LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS, UK . Friday, 18 January, 2013 at 05:20:44 UTC. The earthquake was felt in the towns of . Loughborough. , Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. Shaking was felt as far away as Buxton and Warwick.. ISTANBUL . | . Turkey. . | . Aug. . 25-29, . 2014 . Feasibility. . study. of a . nation. -wide . Early. . Warning. System: the . application. of the EEW software PRESTo on the . Italian. Strong Motion Network (RAN) . and . the contribution of array seismology. J.-P. . Ampuero. Caltech . Seismolab. Acknowledgements. : . Lingsen. . Meng. (now at UC Berkeley). Overview. Earthquake physics: how earthquakes start, propagate and stop? + broader impact. Locating Earthquakes. How do seismologists know when and where earthquakes begin? . They depend on earthquake-sensing instruments called seismographs. . Seismographs. are instruments located at or near the surface of the Earth that record seismic waves. . Occurred just before midday on 25 April 2015. 7.8 Magnitude at a depth of around 15 . kilometres. The . epicentre. was the village of . Barpak. in the . Gorkha. district. The tremors were felt as far away as India, Pakistan and Bhutan.. First Steps in research. State your topic as a question.. Topics. Bipolar disorder. Hip hop music. Drugs. Border region. Terrorism. Censorship. Low Riders. Death Penalty. Change this to a question?. Add one of the following. . Hazards are produced from the response of energy released. Amount and duration are related to the amount of energy released. Which hazards do you know?. Earthquake Hazards. Tsunami: displacement of a large volume of water. Briefly, “explain” the intent of this cartoon. Why do earthquakes occur?. Which of the following diagrams represents a normal fault? What is your evidence? . A.. B. .. TPS – What is going on here?. and . Exploring Earthquakes far from . Plate Boundaries. . Create a. description with . a partner. What is an Earthquake? . ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. Earthquake Machine. Like and Unlike. An . Earthquake Risk. Earthquakes are likely wherever plate movement stores energy in the rock along faults.. Geologists can determine earthquake risk by locating where faults are active and where past earthquakes have occurred.. Agenda. Agree how we work within the Earthquake and Tsunami group. . how to . trigger. the System. (for EQS and TSU). GMPEs (or in term of MMI) vs population density for EQs. Expected tsunami height for .