GSCI 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Interplate Earthquake, Hypocenter, Convergent Boundary
15 May 2017
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Next tuesday is last in-class quiz on sessions 21-24. 1050 students (taking lab) have lab final during last week of classes, not during finals week. Next week is last week of classes, so you have lab final during regularly scheduled period. Seismic and volcanic hazards: earthquake hazards, earthquake prediction, volcanic hazards, historic volcanic eruptions. The mapped location of an earthquake is referred to as focus: the epicenter, the focus, the hypocenter, none of these. Seismic shaking remains a great vulnerability: earthquakes don"t kill; buildings do (or secondary effects, such as tsunamis, ex: chile, 2010. Earthquake ground motion: energy waves, body waves travel through interior of planet, p & s waves surface waves travel along surface of planet seismogram time component, magnitude, distance to earthquake. Which of the following types of seismic waves will arrive first following an earthquake: p-waves s-waves l-waves rayleigh waves these are listed in order of arrival.
