SIO 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mojave Desert, North American Plate, Salton Sea
4 Dec 2017
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Western north america: seismic and volcanic monitoring, monitoring earthquakes, unlike volcanic eruptions, scientists currently cannot forecast earthquakes and no "tell-tale signs" have led to evacuations. A fully functional tsunami warning system is in place around the. Most earthquake-caused tsunami are generated in the pacific ocean. Danger: last eq that generated large tsunami that crossed the pacific ocean was the good friday 1964 eq in alaska. North of mendocino triple junction: subduction of the juan de. Mendocino triple junction to gulf of california: transform. Boundary (s. a. f. ) with big bend north of los angeles. Southern extension of s. a. f. east of salton sea unknown (but could lead into imperial fault) Gulf of california: oceanic spreading center, leading south into a triple junction with another mid-ocean ridge system and a subduction zone (rivera microplate: history of the san andreas fault (saf) and the north. More than 30 million years ago: ancient farallon plate subducts beneath the north american plate.
