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1 Seismology – Summary

2 Earthquakes -- yearly Number of events per km2

3 Earthquakes -- Why? Stresses applied to rocks cause brittle failures

4 Fault types Normal: Spreading ridges Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Thrust: Subduction zones Cascadia Strike-slip: Transform boundaries San Andreas

5 Beachballs Normal (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)

6 Beachballs Reverse thrust (Cascadia)

7 Beachballs Reverse oblique (Aleutians)

8 Beachballs Strike-slip (San Andreas)

9 Beachball -- summary Beachball equivalents for various fault types

10 Earthquake moment tensor
Components of the moment tensor – 9 elements

11 Fault Plane Scale of earthquake:
Mo = fault plane area x slip x breaking strength of rock

12 First motion wave field
We see two quadrants of compression and two of dilatations

13 Earthquake wave types Body waves (travel through volume of Earth):
P-waves (sound) S-waves (shear) Surface waves (travel across surface of Earth: Love waves (horizontal) Raleigh waves (vertical and horizontal)

14 Travel-time curves

15 P-to-S travel times P-wave velocity through rock is usually about 70% faster than S-wave velocity. The delay between P-wave and S-wave arrivals at a seismograph determines distance from source event.

16 Locating a seismic event
If we can determine the distance of an event from 3 or more seismographs, we can locate its epicentre. ...from Press and Seiver

17 Benioff Zone Cascadia subduction zone

18 Earth Structure Schematic of interior structure of the Earth


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