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Author : Chuanyou Li,Wenjun Zheng,Daoyang Yuan,Zhuqi Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832510414
Author : Robert Yeats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107375604
Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' – with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats, explores both the regional and plate-tectonic context of active faults, providing the background for seismic hazard evaluation in planning large-scale projects such as nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams. He also highlights work done in more advanced seismogenic countries like Japan, the United States, New Zealand and China, providing an important basis for upgrading building standards and other laws in developing nations. The book also explores the impact of major quakes on social development through history. It will form an accessible reference for analysts and consulting firms, and a convenient overview for academics and students of geoscience, geotechnical engineering and civil engineering, and land-use planning.
Author : Federica Ferrarini,Ramon Arrowsmith,Michele M. C. Carafa,Nathan Toke
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889713615
Author : Paul L. Hancock
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051235763
Explains clearly and concisely the essential attributes of new concepts that have arisen during the last twenty years in structural geology and tectonics. Deformational and tectonic processes and relationships on all scales are discussed. Site or time specific assemblages are not emphasised with the exceptions of Archaean tectonics and neotectonics. The new nomenclature that has proliferated as a result of the need to express new ideas is highlighted.
Author : A. Landgraf,S. Kuebler,E. Hintersberger,S. Stein
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862397453
Palaeoseismic records and seismological data from continental interiors increasingly show that these areas of slow strain accumulation are more subject to seismic and associated natural hazards than previously thought. Moreover, some of our instincts developed for assessing hazards at plate boundaries might not apply here. Hence assessing hazards and drawing implications for the future is challenging, and how well it can be done heavily depends on the ability to assess the spatiotemporal distribution of past large earthquakes. This book explores some key issues in understanding hazards in slowly deforming areas. Examples include classic intraplate regions, such as Central and Northern Europe, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Australia, and North and South America, and regions of widely distributed strain, such as the Tien Shan Mountains in Central Asia. The papers in this volume are grouped into two sections. The first section deals with instrumental and historical earthquake data and associated hazard assessments. The second section covers methods from structural geology, palaeoseismology and tectonic geomorphology, and incorporates field evidence.
Author : Ibrahim Cemen,Yucel Yilmaz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118945018
Neotectonics involves the study of the motions and deformations of the Earth's crust that are current or recent in geologic time. The Mediterranean region is one of the most important regions for neotectonics and related natural hazards. This volume focuses on the neotectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which has experienced many major extensive earthquakes, including the devastating Izmit, Turkey earthquake on August 17, 1999. The event lasted for 37 seconds, killing around 17,000 people, injuring 44,000 people, and leaving approximately half a million people homeless. Since then, several North American, European, and Turkish research groups have studied the neotectonics and earthquake potential of the region using different geological and geophysical methods, including GPS studies, geodesy, and passive source seismology. Some results from their studies were presented in major North American and European geological meetings. This volume highlights the work involving the Eastern Mediterranean region, which has one of the world's longest and best studied active strike-slip (horizontal motion) faults: the east-west trending North Anatolian fault zone, which is very similar to the San Andreas fault in California. This volume features discussions of: Widespread applications in measuring plate motion that have strong implications in predicting natural disasters like earthquakes, both on a regional and a global scale Recent motions, particularly those produced by earthquakes, that provide insights on the physics of earthquake recurrence, the growth of mountains, orogenic movements, and seismic hazards Unique methodical approaches in collecting tectonophysical data, including field, seismic, experimental, computer-based, and theoretical approaches. Active Global Seismology is a valuable resource for geoscientists, particularly in the field of tectonophysics, geophysics, geodynamics, seismology, structural geology, environmental geology, and geoengineering. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/neotectonics-and-earthquake-forecasting
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on the Science of Earthquakes
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309065627
The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor. Instrumental recordings of earthquakes were not made until the second half of the 19th century, and the primary mechanism for generating seismic waves was not identified until the beginning of the 20th century. From this recent start, a range of laboratory, field, and theoretical investigations have developed into a vigorous new discipline: the science of earthquakes. As a basic science, it provides a comprehensive understanding of earthquake behavior and related phenomena in the Earth and other terrestrial planets. As an applied science, it provides a knowledge base of great practical value for a global society whose infrastructure is built on the Earth's active crust. This book describes the growth and origins of earthquake science and identifies research and data collection efforts that will strengthen the scientific and social contributions of this exciting new discipline.
Author : Hector Perea,Sara Martinez-Loriente,Jillian Maloney,Francesco Emanuele Maesano,Paola Vannucchi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889741083
Author : David B. Slemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Earthquake intensity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032982378
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Geophysics Research Forum,Geophysics Study Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309036382
Over 250,000 people were killed in the Tangshan, China earthquake of 1976, and other less active tectonic processes can disrupt river channels or have a grave impact on repositories of radioactive wastes. Since tectonic processes can be critical to many human activities, the Geophysics Study Committee Panel on Active Tectonics has presented an evaluation of the current state of knowledge about tectonic events, which include not only earthquakes but volcanic eruptions and similar events. This book addresses three main topics: the tectonic processes and their rates, methods of identifying and evaluating active tectonics, and the effects of active tectonics on society.
Author : Catherine Kissel,Carlo Laj
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400908697
One of the most interesting results obtained in the last two decades in the study of crustal deformation has been the recognition that large regions of continental crust undergo rotations about vertical axis during deformation. Proof of such rotations has come through the paleomagnetic studies, which reveal rotations when paleomagnetic declinations within the deforming region arc compared with those found in coeval rocks in the stable regions outside the deforming zone. Such rotations were first described in Oregon then in the North American Cordilleras and in Southern California and were a surprise to everyone. Even in California which, as a result of oil exploration, was among the best geologically explored regions in the world, no one could claim to have predicted that these rotations would be found. Rotations have subsequently been found in other areas of recent continental tectonic activity, notably in the Basin and Range province, New Zealand, the Andes, Greece and Western Turkey, so that they appear as an important feature of continental deformation.
Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521655404
Our understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the successful first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition, first published in 2002, was therefore thoroughly up-dated whilst maintaining and developing the two major themes of the first edition. The first of these themes is the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, including fault scaling laws, the nature of fault populations, and how these result from the processes of fault growth and interaction. The second major theme is the central role of the rate-state friction laws in earthquake mechanics, which provide a unifying framework within which a wide range of faulting phenomena can be interpreted. With the inclusion of two chapters explaining brittle fracture and rock friction from first principles, this book is written at a level which will appeal to graduate students and research scientists in the fields of seismology, physics, geology, geodesy and rock mechanics.
Author : Attila Çiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031432187
Author : Ye Hong
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000109825
This volume presents the results on contemporary geodynamic model, crustal stress field, active faults, folds and volcanoes. It discusses the tectonophysical environments of earthquake generation and the methodology of earthquake prediction.
Author : I. Baljinnyam
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813711812