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SIO15 Lecture 05: Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries Leftovers from Lecture 4 Announcements Plate Boundaries and Earthquakes Earthquakes in Subduction Zones The Wadati-Benioff Zone The Deepest Earthquakes Intraplate Earthquakes New Madrid 1811/12 The Largest Earthquakes
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  • SIO15 Lecture 05: Earthquakes and Plate BoundariesLeftovers from Lecture 4Announcements

    Plate Boundaries and Earthquakes

    Earthquakes in Subduction Zones

    The Wadati-Benioff Zone The Deepest Earthquakes

    Intraplate EarthquakesNew Madrid 1811/12

    The Largest Earthquakes

  • Parameters of an Earthquake along a Fault (see class website)

    Analogy between Plate Boundaries and Earthquake Types

    Normal EventsReverse and Thrust Events

    Shallow and Blind Thrust Events

    Strike-slip Events

    Earthquake Magnitudes

    Mercalli Intensity Richter Magnitude Moment Magnitude

    Earthquake Statistics

    see short video 5b

    Earthquake Types see short video 5a

    An Earthquake along a Fault (see class website)

    Induced Seismicity

    Divergent Plate Boundary Convergent Plate Boundary

    Transform Plate Boundaryvery dangerous

    Seismicity in Oklahoma


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