1. Tsunami

2. 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake Tsunami Death Toll ~ 250,000 Tsunami Death Toll ~ 250,000

3. Dec 26 2004 Sumatra Earthquake 00:58:53 UTC Magnitude 9.0 Latitude: 3.3N Longitude: 95.96E Depth: 30 km Tsunami

4. Earthquakes: Questions Where? Where? When? When? How big? How big? Why? Why? How do we measure eqks? How do we measure eqks? What do eqks tell us about how the earth? What do eqks tell us about how the earth? How are eqks related to volcanoes, tsunami? How are eqks related to volcanoes, tsunami? Can we predict them? Can we predict them? What can we do about them? What can we do about them?

5. EAS/ENGR 122 Earthquake! http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/brown/eas122/eas122home05.htmwww.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/brown/eas122/eas122home05.htm www.eas.cornell.edu

6. http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_slav.html National Earthquake Information Center (US Geological Survey) 1900- present

7. Recent Events

8. Seismicity: Is there a pattern?

9. Plate Tectonics

10. San Andreas Fault, CA Earthquake Geology

11. Earthquake Mechanisms

12. Earthquake Rupture

13. Earthquake Surface Displacements

14. Plate Boundaries

15. Seismic Waves

16. Seismic Station

17. Seismic Waves and The Earth’s Interior

18. Can we predict earthquakes?

19. Immediate Precursors?

20. Slow Earthquakes http://www.geodesy.cwu.edu/index.html?page=http%3A//www.geodesy.cwu.edu/pubs/p_37.html Miller et al., 2002

21. Earthquake Engineering x

22. How Big? C.F. Richter

24. Mexico City, 1985

25. San Francisco, 1906

26. Earthquakes Volanoes Mt. Pinatubo, June 15, 1991

27. Earthquake Swarms: eruption imminent?

28. Tsunami Alaska, 1964

29. GPS