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THE 1908 MESSINA 100YEAR RETROSPECTIVERMS SpecialReport 2008Risk Management Solutions Inc2THE 1908 MESSINAEARTHQUAKETheMessina Earthquake of December 28 1908occurred before the advent of a global sei. The Transamerica Pyramid, San Fransisco. It has been build pyramid shaped as this is hard to topple over. . http://. Footage of the transamerica pyramid. /. The Beijing National Stadium, China. To earthquake-proof the stadium, the bowl and roof were split into two separate elements and the bowl split into eight zones, each with its own stability system and effectively its own building. . 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.. 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. 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. . T. sunami . eqs. ETS/slow slip. Source Time Function Calculation . currently finishing STF determination for Alaska/Kuriles/Sumatra/Java. reconciling STF indicated depths with revised EHB catalog. From Science to Real Implementation. . Jair TORRES. UNESCO. Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazards Risk Reduction Section. Natural Sciences Sector. E. ARTHQUAKE . E. ARLY . W. ARNING. . S. YSTEMS. ???????. Fukushima-. Daichi. nuclear power plant. Airport, Sendai, Japan. Earthquakes Past and Present. Sendai, Japan (8.9 magnitude). historical Seismicity Map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/. and humanitarian response. . L. essons . from Nepal. THE SCIENCE OF . AFTERSHOCK FORECASTING. Earthquakes can’t be predicted. However, aftershocks follow robust seismological . ‘laws’. Probability . Stage 1.. Magma rises to the crust within the mantle. This creates friction and causes the plates to move.. What are the 3 main ways plates move. 1.. 2.. 3. . Stage 2. Pressure builds between plates and sometimes small earthquakes are felt. . 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.. earthquake. (also known as a . quake. , . tremor. or . temblor. ) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the . Earth's. . crust. that creates . seismic waves. . . The . seismicity. , . seismism. About 200 earthquakes occur in our region each year, mainly in southeast Missouri’s . New Madrid Seismic Zone. Missouri’s Great Quakes. Among the biggest earthquakes ever to hit the continental U.S.:.