GEOL 106 Lecture Notes - Dont, San Andreas Fault, European Cooperation In Science And Technology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: David Alan Hanes

Document Summary

Risk analysis: understand the hazard, determine the risk from that hazard for the region of interest. Risk management: determine ways to reduce ph and/or sh, do a cost -benefit analysis that determine what you can afford to do, implement mitigation techniques if warranted and to the extent that you choose. **note: these are the five steps of risk analysis/management. To try and reduce sh : apply land-use planning and zoning, use high-risk areas for low population use (e. g. parks, golf course) Or you put in regulated set back locations; restricted from building too close to the fault in particular, don"t build in areas of soft soil or soils that might liquefy: apply stringent building codes, choose appropriate building materials. All the bad materials behave in an un-flexible way. But, in machu picchu, the structures are built out of dry-stone, when earthquakes struck, the individual pieces were able to move back and forth freely.