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EarthquakEarthquake Sciencee Science
(Seismology)(Seismology)
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Announcements for next week’s labMagnetometer survey,
working in groups
Please bring: small notebook pen graph paper umbrella (if raining)Be prepared to remove
all metal (watches, belt buckles, jewelry, etc.)
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March 28, 1964 - AlaskaM = 9.1 Up to 12 m vertical displacement
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October 17, 1989 - Loma Prieta, CAM = 6.9 $6 B in property damage
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January 17, 1994 - Northridge, CAMw = 6.7 > $15 B in property damage
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January 17, 1995 - Kobe, JapanMw = 6.7 5000 dead, > $200 B in property damage
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August 17, 1999 - Izmit, TurkeyM = 7.4 15,700 casualties
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December 26, 2004 - SumatraM = 9.15 250,000 deaths
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• What are earthquakes? What are earthquakes? (… and what earthquakes (… and what earthquakes are not!)are not!)
• Earthquake Earthquake phenomenology (… fault, phenomenology (… fault, epicentre, seismic waves, epicentre, seismic waves, magnitude)magnitude)
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4 mSan AndreasSan Andreas
FaultFault
Fence offset during the Great Earthquake (1906)
Earthquake: A sudden, violent dislocation in the subsurface caused by stress buildup on a fault.
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An earthquake is not:… a giant crack that opens up and swallows buildings whole
…like an underground explosion
… defined by a point in space or time
… easily predictable
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Fault: A surface across which two blocks can move relative to each other.
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San Andreas Fault Trace, California
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Focus: The location on a fault where earthquake rupture initiates.
Focal depth
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http://www.iris.iris.edu/sumatra/
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Hypocentre: The calculated position of an earthquake focus.
Hypocentre (almost synonymous)
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Epicentre: That point on the Earth's surface directly above the hypocentre.
EpicentralDistance
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Surface waves
Body waves
Seismic Waves 101
P waves
S waves
Love waves
Rayleigh waves
Primary (or compressional)
Secondary (or shear)
Fast
Slow
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www.iris.edu
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2005/09/26 01:55:35 85.4 km depth
Northern Peru, Magnitude 7.5
PS
SS
Rayleigh
ELFO
6.6 min
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Estimating Epicentral Distance ()
P
S
t
For a distant earthquake:
~ 1000 t - 1500
t in minutes, in km
e.g., ~ 1000*6.6 - 1500 = 5100 km
Note: Just a crude estimate!
For a local earthquake:
~ 8 tt in seconds, in km
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Earthquake epicentresare located by triangulation
www.quakechasers.ca
Requires t from at least 3 stations
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Magnitude: A measure of the strength of an earthquake, as determined by seismographic observations.
Different magnitude formulas are used. Examples:
• Richter magnitude
• Surface-wave magnitude
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Small earthquakes happen often, but large earthquakes are infrequent...
http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/quake/eq2.htm
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MS = log10(A) + 1.656log10() + 1.818
Surface-wave magnitude formula(most common)
A = amplitude in microns (m)
= epicentral distance in degrees(divide by 111 to go from km to degrees)
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672 m
~ (5100/111) ~ 46 degrees
MS = log10(A) + 1.656log10() + 1.818
= 7.4
Magnitude CalculationExample