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Author : David B. Slemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Earthquake intensity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032982378
Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : David B. Slemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Earthquake intensity
ISBN : OCLC:758496391
Author : J. Koyama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401732611
In seismology an earthquake source is described in terms of a fault with a particular rupture size. The faulting process of large earthquakes has been investigated in the last two decades through analyses of long-period seismo grams produced by advanced digital seismometry. By long-period far-field approximation, the earthquake source has been represented by physical parameters such as s~ismic moment, fault dimension and earthquake mag nitude. Meanwhile, destruction often results from strong ground motion due to large earthquakes at short distances. Since periods of strong ground motion are far shorter than those of seismic waves at teleseismic distances, the theory of long-period source process of earthquakes cannot be applied directly to strong ground motion at short distances. The excitation and propagation of high-frequency seismic waves are of special interest in recent earthquake seismology. In particular, the descrip tion and simulation of strong ground motion are very important not only for problems directly relevant to earthquake engineering, but also to the frac ture mechanics of earthquake faulting. Understanding of earthquake sources has been developed by investigating the complexity of faulting processes for the case of large earthquakes. Laboratory results on rock failures have also advanced the understanding of faulting mechanisms. Various attempts have been made to simulate, theoretically and empirically, the propagation of short-period seismic waves in the heterogeneous real earth.
Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107079038
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 : A. Bizzarri,S. Das,A. Petri
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781614999799
The mechanics of earthquake faulting is a multi-disciplinary scientific approach combining laboratory inferences and mathematical models with the analysis of recorded data from earthquakes, and is essential to the understanding of these potentially destructive events. The modern field of study can be said to have begun with the seminal papers by B. V. Kostrov in 1964 and 1966. This book presents lectures delivered at the summer school ‘The Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting’, held under the umbrella of the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics in Varenna, Italy, from 2 to 7 July 2018. The school was attended by speakers and participants from many countries. One of the most important goals of the school was to present the state-of-the-art of the physics of earthquakes, and the 10 lectures included here cover the most challenging aspects of the mechanics of faulting. The topics covered during the school give a very clear picture of the current state of the art of the physics of earthquake ruptures and also highlight the open issues and questions that are still under debate, and the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.
Author : Steven Earle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537068822
This is a discount Black and white version. Some images may be unclear, please see BCCampus website for the digital version.This book was born out of a 2014 meeting of earth science educators representing most of the universities and colleges in British Columbia, and nurtured by a widely shared frustration that many students are not thriving in courses because textbooks have become too expensive for them to buy. But the real inspiration comes from a fascination for the spectacular geology of western Canada and the many decades that the author spent exploring this region along with colleagues, students, family, and friends. My goal has been to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the important topics of geology, richly illustrated with examples from western Canada. Although this text is intended to complement a typical first-year course in physical geology, its contents could be applied to numerous other related courses.
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466864313
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
Author : Charles Richter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Seismology
ISBN : UCSD:31822013751979
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133457163
Author : David B. Slemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015086520171
The short seismologic and historic records, in combination with the long recurrence intervals between potentially damaging earthquakes, create a need for developing geologic methods as alternatives or supplements to seismologic methods of establishing design earthquakes. The main goal of this report is to review geologic methods of determining the maximum probable earthquakes for active faults based on empirical relationships between magnitude, length of surface faulting, maximum fault displacement, and combinations of fault length and maximum displacement.
Author : John Rundle,John B. Rundle,Donald L. Turcotte,William Klein
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780875909783
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120. Earthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction program in Japan, this event was a complete surprise. Similar scenarios are possible in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and other urban centers around the Pacific plate boundary. The development of forecast or prediction methodologies for these great damaging earthquakes has been complicated by the fact that the largest events repeat at irregular intervals of hundreds to thousands of years, resulting in a limited historical record that has frustrated phenomenological studies. The papers in this book describe an emerging alternative approach, which is based on a new understanding of earthquake physics arising from the construction and analysis of numerical simulations. With these numerical simulations, earthquake physics now can be investigated in numerical laboratories. Simulation data from numerical experiments can be used to develop theoretical understanding that can be subsequently applied to observed data. These methods have been enabled by the information technology revolution, in which fundamental advances in computing and communications are placing vast computational resources at our disposal.
Author : John Philip Kern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UCSD:31822020624870
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 : 430 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309169097
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 : Shamita Das,John Boatwright,Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 9780875904054
