PPT-Earthquake Hazards in the Central U.S.

Brian Blake Central US Earthquake Consortium MEMA SAR Planning Meeting July 24 2013 Senatobia Mississippi Overview of CUSEC Formed in 1983 Result of a growing body of research Partnership effort between State and Federal Government. Tectonic activity and hazards. PowerPoint presentation by . Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)UK. Schools Team: Mary Doherty and Severa von . Wentzel. March 2013. . MSF. Geography Working Group. A Complex Rupture?. M. C. Chapman. Department of Geosciences. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, Virginia 24061. mcc. @ vt.edu. Meeting of the Eastern Section, Seismological. Tectonic activity and hazards. PowerPoint presentation by . Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)UK. Schools Team: Mary Doherty and Severa von . Wentzel. March 2013. . MSF. Geography Working Group. 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. Why do people live in tectonic areas and how are the possible effects being managed?. Why do people live in tectonic areas?. In pairs discuss: . Which area of the world has the highest number of people potentially affected by tectonic activity?. Just before dawn, residents of a baysideearthquakes, were jolted from their beds bya magnitude 6.9 quake. This 1995 temblor$100 billion in damage. The quake struckKobe, Japan, but similar losses could and . Geologic Hazards . (. 3 units). Fall 2013 Section . E4736. . M&W 2:50-4:15PM Room . HMHU125. Jason “Jay” R. Patton. Jason-Patton@redwoods.edu. . http://science.earthjay.com/?page_id=482. Essc311 - Kovacs. Natural Disasters. & Prevention. Analyze . and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. . 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 . Earthquake Country Alliance. Cisco, San Jose, March 1. , 2018. SAFRR: Science Application for Risk Reduction. SAFRR: Science Application for Risk Reduction …. NATURAL HAZARDS MISSION AREA Earthquake Hazards Program. (Lesson 22). ENQUIRY QUESTION 3:. How successful is the . management. of tectonic hazards and disasters?. H/W :TASK 4. Read the information . (Hodder page 90 in this booklet) . about two recent tectonic mega disasters : . TECTONIC PROCESSES AND HAZARDS REVISION SUMMARY Aim: To create summary mind maps for each sub section To look at some typical A level style questions Kilauea: Earthquakes follow eruptions from Hawaii volcano (May 5 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. Shallow hypocenter, large volume of displaced crust, large earthquake. Earthquakes. Earthquakes occur throughout the world but predominately on. plate boundaries. . For example the San Andreas Fault, a conservative plate margin. Furthermore, earthquakes also occur on the constructive plate boundaries of the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, although these are not as severe.