FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: April 2015 Nepal Earthquake, Tsunami Warning System, Eurasian Plate
1 Oct 2016
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*might decide to take a topic you study about for test 1 for assignment 1. Quiz review details: there are 10-11 quizzes, making each quiz worth approximately 1% of your final mark, tsunamis are caused by the vertical displacement of water tidal waves caused by tides (in reference to quiz question) [probability of occurrence] x [cost of the probable loss from the event] *know case studies mentioned in class, will be on tests. What is geomatics: plotting out what risk is in an area using models. Joints and faulting (refer to lecture 2 slides for pictures: deformation of the earth"s crust. With a transform fault margin we are talking about plate tectonic boundaries, and two plates. Lateral vault a break along a fault, with movement along that particular break. It"s active if there has been movement within the last 11,000 years.
