Earth Sciences 2281A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transform Fault, Epicenter, 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami
8 Mar 2019
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Note: there are a ton of reports on the owl. You don"t have to read all 157 pages of each one. You only have to read the information in the first three-ish pages. Earthquakes are not getting worse though, it"s just that building is happening in dumber geological places. It"s closer to logarithmic, but by a factor of 2, not 10. Relatively simple plate system of just being a transform fault. Duration 3 minutes; about 100 people died off tidal. Major damage 100km away in marina district of san francisco. There was a double decker highway bridge that collapsed; 67 dead. The plates are like books, and in this case, it wasn"t just the books moving up and down, but rather the pages moving at the same time. Kobe is one of those cities that was built on "reclaimed land" where they had excavated mountain material and put it into the harbour in order to avoid building into mountains.
