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26 May 16
HH Horst Rademacher
Lect 2: Earthquakes: The Basics
Summer Session 2016
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EQ and the Cyberworld
How you can contribute to
earthquake science? My Shake
http://myshake.berkeley.edu/
EQ and the Cyberworld
How you can contribute to
earthquake science? My Shake
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Questions?
Who has ever felt an earthquake?
Earthquakes: The Basics
What is an earthquake?
Earthquakes: The Basics
Earthquakes: The Basics
Earthquakes: The Basics
How much was fact?
How much was fiction?
Earthquakes: The Basics
NHK Video
Great Hanshin Earthquake, Kobe, Japan, 17 Jan 1995, M = 7.3 Security Camera in NHK Newsroom
…..and now some reality
Earthquakes: The Basics …..some more reality
Tohoku Earthquake, E of Honshu, Japan, 11 March 2011, M = 9.0 various clips
What is an earthquake? Earthquakes: The Basics
Scientific answer:
When the ground breaks along a fault
Common/laymen’s answer:
When the ground shakes where I am
Both answers are correct! Two different aspects of a seismic event
Seismic waves
Seismic source
Seismic sources: Where do earthquake occur? How often do earthquakes happen? Why earthquakes happen? How do earthquakes happen? Prediction, Forecast, Early Warning
Earthquakes: The Basics
Seismic waves: Seismic Monitoring X-Raying the Earth – Structure of the Earth’s interior Looking for mineral resources, oil and gas Response of buildings and structures Earthquake Engineering
All those topics will be touched on
in this course
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Where do earthquakes occur?
Where do earthquakes occur?
Earthquakes around the world occur in a distinct pattern
Depth in km
Things to remember II
Earthquakes and land volcanoes
Where do earthquakes occur?
Where do earthquakes occur? Global Bathymetry
Where do earthquakes occur?
……like here along the
Mid-Atlantic ridge
Where do earthquakes occur?
… or like here along the deep sea trenches
in the NE Pacific
Where do earthquakes occur?
Where do earthquakes occur? Pacific Ring of Fire
Chile, 1960 M=9.5
Alaska, 1964 M = 9.2
Japan, 2011 M = 9.0
Where do earthquakes occur? Pacific Ring of Fire
This is how the History Channel sees it
www. history.com
Where do earthquakes occur? Summary:
Earthquakes occur in a distinct pattern
Pattern is similar for EQ and Volcanoes
EQ occur along major ocean features like ridges and trenches
EQ occur under some major mountain ranges, like Himalaya, Alps and Andes
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How does this all fit together? Why do earthquakes occur in these specific regions?
For the answers thank this man
The Father of Continental Drift
and Plate Tectonics Alfred Wegener
1880 - 1930
Plate Tectonics
Alfred Wegener 1880 – 1930
German Meteorologist and Polar Researcher
Plate Tectonics
Wegener 1912: concept of drifting continents
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics Why are Wegener’s ideas important?
At the last turn of the century, nobody really understood what EQ were and how they worked
Japan: catfish
China: frog
Philippines: snake
Native Americans: turtle
In folklore EQ were associated
with giant creatures that supported the Earth
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Strong winds blew through caves inside the Earth, creating “effects similar to those of the wind in our bodies whose force when it is pent up inside us can cause tremors and throbbings.”
Destructive EQ in Sparta 464 BCE
Plate Tectonics …in ancient Greece
EQ were seen as the wrath of god.
Mechanism by the Catholic Church
to control the people.
Rimini, Italy, 1308
Rhodes 1481
Plate Tectonics …in early Christian Europe
Plate Tectonics …that changed 1755
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
gave first rational, enlightened
explanation of the catastrophic Lisbon EQ
on 1 Nov 1755
Great San Francisco EQ devastated the city
Plate Tectonics …and then came 1906
• Cataloged descriptions of earthquake effects
• Identified the San Andreas Fault
• Maps of the fault location and ground shaking distribution
• Elastic rebound theory
Prof. Andrew Lawson
UC Berkeley
Plate Tectonics …a turning point for seismology
(earthquake science)
The Lawson Report
Plate Tectonics
…but we still did not know what causes
Earthquakes -
that’s where Wegener’s Continental Drift
comes into the picture
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Questions?
Evidence for plate tectonics shapes of
continents
fossils shared between different
continents
Plate Tectonics
Evidence for plate tectonics maps of the sea floor made using sonar (after WW I)
East Pacific Rise
a ridge in the centers of most oceans
surprisingly small amount of sediment
on sea floor
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics Ocean Ridges
Periodic reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field are recorded as stripes
Breakthrough in 1963: Discovery of magnetic stripes on the ocean floor
Plate Tectonics
Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews Cambridge University
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics Age of Ocean Crust vs. Continental Crust
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Questions?
Hypothesis: Ocean ridge spreading
Plate Tectonics
How does it work?
Plate Tectonics How does it work?
Thanks to Paul Okubo, HVO
Plate Tectonics Plate Reconstruction I
580 million years in 8 seconds
Plate Reconstruction II
…a little bit slower….
The magnetic tape recorder:
Given the oceanic record we can wind back the plates to see how the plates have been moving.
age of the ocean floor: red=young, green=old
We can reconstruct past plate motion
Pangaea supercontinent
Plate Tectonics
Today we have
14 major plates:
North American
Eurasian
Pacific
Antarctic
South American
African
Australian
Plate Tectonics
The plates are rigid.
They are moving,
hence they collide
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Questions?
Plate Tectonics
The Big Picture: How does it work?
Categories of plate – plate interactions
Divergent
• Established mid-ocean ridge • New rift zone, new ocean
Transform • Along mid-ocean ridges • Across continents
Convergent • Ocean – continent • Ocean – ocean • Continent – continent
Plate Tectonics The tectonic action is
along the plate boundaries
Let’s look at them in more detail:
Divergent boundaries:
East African Rift and Red Sea
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics Convergent boundaries = collision
Cars: Deformation, Metal folding, Explosive release of energy Earth: The right conditions for Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Three types of
convergent plate boundaries:
Western South America and the Pacific Northwest
Japan
The Himalaya
Plate Tectonics
oceanic-continental
oceanic-oceanic
continental-continental
Example: Convergent
boundary (continental-continental)
India and Asia
Transform plate boundaries: Plate Tectonics
San Andreas Fault The Mother of all Earthquake Faults
Magmatic Blow Torch
Plate Tectonics Hot Spots
6000 miles, 70 million years
Plate Tectonics Hot Spots
Plate Tectonics Hot Spots
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Questions?
Things to remember I
We are sitting on a tectonic time bomb
Earthquakes around the world occur in a distinct pattern
Depth in km
Things to remember II
The cause is Plate Tectonics
Things to remember III
Divergent • Established mid-ocean ridge • New rift zone, new ocean
Transform • Along mid-ocean ridges • Across continents
Convergent • Ocean – continent • Ocean – ocean • Continent – continent
Three types of plate – plate interactions
Things to remember IV
Tuesday:
Earthquake Faults Different types of Earthquakes