Plate boundaries and natural hazards / Joao C. Duarte, Wouter P. Schellart, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Geophysical Union, issuing body.

Duarte, Joao C., editor.

Schellart, Wouter P., editor.

Series:

Geophysical monograph ; 219.

Geophysical Monograph ; 219

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plate tectonics.

Earthquake zones.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (654 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : American Geophysical Union : Wiley, 2016.

Summary:

"The beginning of the new millennium has been particularly devastating in terms of natural disasters associated with tectonic plate boundaries, such as earthquakes in Sumatra, Chile, Japan, Tahiti, and Nepal; the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean tsunamis; and volcanoes in Indonesia, Chile, Iceland that have produced large quantities of ash causing major disruption to aviation. In total, half a million people were killed by such natural disasters. These recurring events have increased our awareness of the destructive power of natural hazards and the major risks associated with them. While we have come a long way in the search for understanding such natural phenomena, and although our knowledge of Earth dynamics and plate tectonics has improved enormously, there are still fundamental uncertainties in our understanding of natural hazards. Increased understanding is crucial to improve our capacity for hazard prediction and mitigation" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

TITLE PAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

1 Introduction to Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

1.1. THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1755 GREAT LISBON EARTHQUAKE

1.2. PLATES AND PLATE BOUNDARIES

1.3. NATURAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH PLATE BOUNDARIES

1.4. CONCLUDING REMARKS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Part I: Reviews

2 Rifts and Rifted Margins

2.1. INTRODUCTION

2.2. RIFTING IN TWO DIMENSIONS

2.3. RIFTING IN THREE DIMENSIONS

2.4. SEDIMENTATION

2.5. NATURAL HAZARDS

2.6. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK

3 Origin, Evolution, Seismicity, and Models of Oceanic and Continental Transform Boundaries

3.1. INTRODUCTION

3.2. CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM FAULTS

3.3. OCEANIC TRANSFORM FAULTS

3.4. SEISMIC HAZARD ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSFORM AND STRIKE‐SLIP FAULTS

3.5. DISCUSSION

3.6. CONCLUSIONS

4 An Introduction to Convergent Margins and Their Natural Hazards

4.1. INTRODUCTION

4.2. PLATE TECTONICS BASIC CONCEPTS

4.3. WHAT IS A NATURAL HAZARD?

4.4. CONVERGENT MARGIN FUNDAMENTALS AND HAZARDS

4.5. RECENT HISTORY OF THREE GREAT CONVERGENT MARGIN HAZARDS: EARTHQUAKES, ERUPTIONS, AND TSUNAMIS

4.6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

Part II: Earthquakes and Related Natural Hazards

5 Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes

5.1. INTRODUCTION

5.2. THE SEISMIC CYCLE AND EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE

5.3. DISCUSSION

5.4. CONCLUSIONS

6 Promise and Paradox

6.1. INTRODUCTION

6.2. PROMISE

6.3. PARADOX

6.4. THE MAPPING CHALLENGE

6.5. UNCERTAINTIES: SHALLOW VERSUS DEEP

6.6. SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY

6.7. MAXIMUM MAGNITUDE

6.8. CHAOS: A WEATHER ANALOGY

6.9. WHEN IS THE NEXT EARTHQUAKE?

6.10. WHAT TO DO?

REFERENCES.

7 Joint Inversion of High-Rate GPS and Teleseismic Observations for Rupture Process of the 23 June 2014 (Mw 7.9) Rat Islands Archipelago, Alaska, Intermediate Depth Earthquake

7.1. INTRODUCTION

7.2. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

8 Large Earthquakes and Structural Heterogeneity in Eastern Tibetan Plateau

8.1. INTRODUCTION

8.2. THE WENCHUAN AND LUSHAN EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES

8.3. THE YINGJIANG AND LUDIAN EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES

8.4. EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY ON SEISMOGENESIS

8.5. DISCUSSION AND INTERPRETATIONS

8.6. CONCLUSIONS

9 Seismic Potential of Thrust-Wrench Tectonic Interference between Major Active Faults Offshore SW Iberia

9.1. INTRODUCTION

9.2. TECTONIC SETTING OF THE SW IBERIAN OFFSHORE

9.3. PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED VERY HIGH MAGNITUDE SEISMOGENIC SOURCES

9.4. A NEW EXPLANATION: ACTIVE THRUST-WRENCH FAULT INTERFERENCE

9.5. DISCUSSION

9.6. CONCLUSIONS

10 On the Sedimentological and Historical Evidences of Seismic-Triggered Tsunamis on the Algarve Coast of Portugal

10.1. INTRODUCTION

10.2. THE ALGARVE COAST

10.3. ONSHORE TSUNAMI SEDIMENTS

10.4. HISTORICAL DATA OF TSUNAMIS IN THE ALGARVE COAST

10.5. DISCUSSION

10.6. CONCLUSIONS

Part III: Volcanoes and Related Natural Hazards

11 Growth, Demise, and Recent Eruption History of the Eastern Cobb-Eickelberg Seamounts at the Intersection with the Juan De Fuca Ridge

11.1. INTRODUCTION

11.2. DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING

11.3. COBB-EICKELBERG SEAMOUNT CHAIN OVERVIEW

11.4. AXIAL SEAMOUNT

11.5. BROWN BEAR SEAMOUNT

11.6. COBB SEAMOUNT

11.7. IMPLICATIONS OF SEAMOUNT MORPHOLOGY

11.8. SUMMARY

12 The Devastating Impact of the 2010 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia

12.1. INTRODUCTION

12.2. PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS (PDCS)

12.3. ERUPTION OVERVIEW

12.4. SUMMARY DISCUSSION

13 The Tsunami Effects of a Collapse of a Volcanic Island on a Semienclosed Basin

13.1. INTRODUCTION

13.2. GEOLOGICAL SETTING

13.3. MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE VOLCANO STRUCTURE

13.4. TSUNAMI POTENTIAL AND HAZARD

13.5. DISCUSSION

13.6. CONCLUSIONS

14 Remote Sensing of Volcanic Eruptions

14.1. INTRODUCTION

14.2. SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF VOLCANIC SO2

14.3. SATELLITE DETECTION OF VOLCANIC ASH

14.4. VOLCANIC ASH AND AVIATION HAZARDS

14.5. IMPACT OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS ON CLIMATE: GLOBAL COOLING

14.6. CURRENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

INDEX

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781119054306

1119054303

9781119054214

1119054214

9781119054146

1119054141

OCLC:

953734913