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2 Lisa Wald USGS Pasadena U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquakes 101 (EQ101)

3 Global Distribution of Earthquakes

4 Lisa Wald USGS Pasadena U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Plate Tectonics

5 Plate Boundaries

6 Watch southern california video

7 Three Types of Faults Strike-Slip Thrust Normal

8 Normal Fault Example Dixie Valley-Fairview Peaks, Nevada earthquake December 16, 1954

9 Thrust Fault Example

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11 Strike-slip Fault Example

12 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

13 Landers, CA 1992 Strike-slip Fault Example

14 Where is Haiti?

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19 Total Slip in the M7.3 Landers Earthquake Rupture on a Fault

20 Seismic Waves

21 Earthquake Magnitude M5 M6 M7

22 Earthquake Location

23 Bigger Faults Make Bigger Earthquakes

24 Bigger Earthquakes Last a Longer Time

25 What Controls the Level of Shaking? Magnitude –More energy released Distance –Shaking decays with distance Local soils –amplify the shaking

26 Is there such a thing as “Earthquake Weather”???

27 Earthquake Effects - Ground Shaking Northridge, CA 1994

28 Earthquake Effects - Ground Shaking Northridge, CA 1994

29 Earthquake Effects - Ground Shaking KGO-TV News ABC-7 Loma Prieta, CA 1989

30 Earthquake Effects - Ground Shaking Kobe, Japan 1995

31 Earthquake Effects - Ground Shaking Kobe, Japan 1995

32 Earthquake Effects - Surface Faulting Landers, CA 1992

33 Earthquake Effects - Liquefaction Source: National Geophysical Data Center Niigata, Japan 1964

34 Earthquake Effects - Landslides Turnagain Heights, Alaska,1964 (upper left inset); Santa Cruz Mtns, California, 1989 Source: National Geophysical Data Center

35 Earthquake Effects - Fires KGO-TV News ABC-7 Loma Prieta, CA 1989

36 Earthquake Effects - Tsunamis Photograph Credit: Henry Helbush. Source: National Geophysical Data Center 1957 Aleutian Tsunami

37 The San Andreas Fault

38 Pacific-North American Plate Boundary

39 Will California eventually fall into the ocean???

40 Faults of Southern California Source: SCEC Data Center

41 Shaking Hazard in Southern California

42 Faults in Our Local Area - Arcadia Source: SCEC Data Center 55 KM long Last ruptured in last 10,000 YEARS SLIP RATE: between 0.36 and 4 mm/yr PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.0 - 7.0 (?) Dips to the north THRUST fault Sierra Madre Fault Zone

43 Faults in Our Local Area - Arcadia Source: SCEC Data Center 26 KM long Last ruptured in last 10,000 YEARS SLIP RATE: between 0.10 and 0.22 mm/yr PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.0 - 7.0 Dips to the north STRIKE-SLIP fault Raymond Fault At least eight surface-rupturing events have occurred along this fault in the last 36,000 years

44 Faults in Our Local Area - Arcadia Source: SCEC Data Center 18 KM long Last ruptured in last 1.6 million YEARS SLIP RATE: ??? PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: ??? Dips to the north THRUST fault Clamshell-Sawpit Canyon fault

45 Real-time Earthquake Information

46 ShakeMaps

47 Did You Feel It? Community Internet Intensity Maps

48 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey USGS Earthquake Hazards Program http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ Where to go for more information:

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50 Faults in Our Local Area - La Canada Source: SCEC Data Center LENGTH: the zone is about 55 km long; total length of main fault segments is about 75 km, with each segment measuring roughly 15 km long MOST RECENT SURFACE RUPTURE: Holocene, 10,000 years to present SLIP RATE: between 0.36 and 4 mm/yr INTERVAL BETWEEN SURFACE RUPTURES: several thousand years (?) PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.0 - 7.0 (?) OTHER NOTES: This fault zone dips to the north. TYPE OF FAULTING: reverse

51  Depth Into the earth Surface of the earth Distance along the fault plane 100 km (60 miles) Slip on an earthquake fault START

52 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 2.0

53 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 4.0

54 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 6.0

55 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 8.0

56 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 10.0

57 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 12.0

58 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 14.0

59 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 16.0

60 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 18.0

61 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 20.0

62 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 22.0

63 Slip on an earthquake fault Second 24.0


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