GEOL 106 Lecture 6: Week 6 Lecture 1

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

Document Summary

For managers and planners to use, for carrying out their work for future planning to mitigate: gives some sense on where money should be put. More investments on areas with higher probabilities: global seismic hazard map: tells you the hazard level of the locations across the globe, probability map: the probability of getting an earthquake in a given area (with percentages) Determine the geological/geographic relationships in the area: where are the higher-hazard zones as a result of particular geological/geographic characteristics, as a result of typography, types of soil, ground and etc. Map out locations of rocks, sand-soils, clay soils, etc: they have variable shaking characteristics, bed rock has the least amount of shaking, postglacial: muds and crops (where farmers do their thing) Magnitude 7. 6: map out tsunami-hazard zones, we have global tsunami hazard maps for the globe, similar to the seismic global hazard map, determine human interactions with the potential hazard in the area.