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Lecture 12: Earthquakes
Three types of earthquakes
Earthquake hazards, especially tsunamis and liquefaction
P-waves and s-waves
Triangulating earthquake positions
"Beachball" diagrams
How and what earthquake waves tell us about the interior of the Earth

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1329831811*Three types of earthquakesA.Product of reverse fault-> A small thrust fault (see arrows) east of Vail, CO. B. A strike-slip fault offset the road after the Landers earthquake in California. C. A normal fault near Challis, Idaho, moved in the 1983 earthquake.1
1329831812Earthquake hazards, especially tsunamis and liquefactionliquefaction= wet soil think of mud slides2
1329831813P-waves and s-wavesP-waves • P-waves are primary waves or pressure waves • Move faster than S-waves • Pass through solids, liquids, and gases. S-waves • Secondary waves, or shear waves • move more slowly than p-waves • Can only pass through solids—that's how we know that the center of the earth is liquid. cooler desner matieral transmit s waves better3
1329831814Triangulating earthquake positionsIf three separate seismometers calculate the distance to an earthquake's epicenter, we can figure out where the epicenter was by triangulation.4
1329831815"Beachball" diagrams "Beachball" diagramsLearn 2 things: EXPAND= AWAY FORM SIZE COMPRESS=TOWARDS (1) The slip motion of the rocks underground (2) the orientation of the fault that the slip occurred on -The beachballs show where compression and expansion occurred, and let us know what kind of earthquake it was.5
1329831816How and what earthquake waves tell us about the interior of the Earth?Sizemameters on opp. ends of earth can only transmit P-waves b/c they can go through Solid, liquid, gases. That's how we know the earth s waves like cold and dense6

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