Global tectonics and earthquake risk:
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1974
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Autor: Lomnitz, Cinna
Jahr: 1974
Contents
PREFACE.........................VII
Part I. Global Tectonics
CHAPTER 1. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE............... 3
Synopsis.......................... 3
Evidence of change....................... 4
Geologic continuity....................... 7
CHAPTER 2. GEOLOGIC HISTORY................. 11
History of Pangaea....................... 11
Geochronology........................ 11
Dating of rocks in the field.................... 13
Tectonic revolutions...................... 15
The breakup of Pangaea..................... 16
CHAPTER 3. EARTHQUAKES................... 21
Introduction......................... 21
Earthquake parameters...................... 24
Seismic waves........................ 28
Mechanism at the source..................... 29
Elasticity and anelasticity..................... 34
Equivalent viscosity of the mantle.................. 38
Aftershocks......................... 39
Earthquakes and explosions.................... 41
CHAPTER 4. PLATE TECTONICS.................. 45
Introduction......................... 45
The plate concept....................... 45
Geometry of sea-floor spreading................... 48
Tectonics of sea-floor spreading................... 49
Stresses in lithospheric plates.................... 51
Transcursion in California..................... 53
Viscoelastic rebound as an earthquake mechanism.............. 55
Subduction......................... 58
Accretion......................... 60
The Elsasser model...................... 61
The South American West Coast................... 64
Part II. Earthquake Risk
CHAPTER 5. STOCHASTIC PROCESSES................ 73
Introduction......................... 73
Statistics.......................... 74
xii CONTENTS
Bayesian statistics....................... 75
Independence ........................ 76
Stationarity......................... 77
Homogeneity........................ 77
CHAPTER 6. POINT PROCESSES.................. 79
Definition......................... 79
The Poisson process....................... 79
Markov processes....................... 81
Renewal processes....................... 82
Generalized Poisson processes; superposition............... 82
CHAPTER 7. MODELLING THE EARTHQUAKE PROCESS.......... 85
Introduction......................... 85
A heuristic model for the earthquake process............... 87
The Klondike model in earthquake theory................ 88
The Kolmogorov process..................... 91
Boltzmann processes...................... 95
The tagged self-exciting process................... 97
A topological model...................... 99
CHAPTER 8. EXTREME-VALUE METHODS............... 101
Introduction......................... 101
Earthquake maxima...................... 101
An application to California.................... 104
The maximum magnitude in a region.................. 106
CHAPTER 9. EARTHQUAKE ZONING................. Ill
Why seismic zoning?...................... Ill
Soviet concepts of zoning..................... Ill
Earthquake zoning in the U.S.A.................... 112
Risk mapping........................ 114
Approaches to earthquake prediction................. 116
CHAPTER 10. ESTIMATION PROCEDURES FOR EARTHQUAKE RISK...... 119
Introduction......................... 119
Approaches of analysis...................... 119
Extreme-value methods..................... 121
Bayesian methods....................... 122
Optimization methods...................... 122
Composition methods...................... 123
Zoning methods........................ 125
Simulation methods...................... 125
A case history........................ 127
Project description....................... 127
Geologic situation....................... 129
Seismotectonic setting...................... 129
Seismic history........................ 130
Estimation of earthquake risk.................... 130
Pessimistic earthquake risk.................... 131
Poissonian risk....................... 133
Incorporation of historical data................... 133
Summary of risk estimates..................... 134
CONTENTS Xiii
CHAPTER 11. STRATEGIES FOR CONTROL OF EARTHQUAKE HAZARD..... 137
Introduction......................... 137
Initial strategies........................ 137
Alternative strategies...................... 140
Prediction versus prevention?.................... 141
An earthquake strategy...................... 141
Part III. World Seismicity
CHAPTER 12. THE DATA.................... 147
Seismographs........................ 147
Strain meters....................... 147
Accelerometers....................... 148
Velocity and displacement seismographs................ 149
Exploration seismographs.................... 150
Earthquake data processing.................... 150
Array technology....................... 153
CHAPTER 13. SEISMIC REGIONS OF THE WORLD............ 157
Introduction......................... 157
Regional distribution...................... 158
Seismicity maps........................ 158
CHAPTER 14. CIRCUM-PACIFIC BELT................ 175
Introduction......................... 175
North America........................ 175
Alaska......................... 177
Alaskan panhandle to Washington State................ 181
California, Nevada and Oregon, and Baja California............ 184
Eastern and central North America................. 188
Central and insular America.................... 190
Mexico to Guatemala..................... 190
Central America....................... 195
Caribbean Arc and Venezuela................... 198
South America........................ 200
Extension and seismicity.................... 200
Northern Andes....................... 200
Central Andes....................... 207
Southern Andes....................... 207
Patagonia......................... 209
Scotia Arc........................ 210
South Pacific Ocean...................... 211
New Zealand........................ 211
Tonga, Kermadec, Fiji, and Samoa................. 213
New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands................ 216
Solomon and Bismarck Archipelagoes................ 217
New Guinea........................ 219
Western Pacific Ocean...................... 219
Micronesia........................ 220
Northern Japan, Kurile Islands, and Kamchatka............. 222
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CHAPTER 15. EAST ASIAN INSULAR BELT AND EURASIA.......... 227
Introduction......................... 227
East Asian insular belt...................... 228
Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands................... 228
Taiwan......................... 230
Philippines........................ 231
Molucca Sea........................ 233
Banda and Sunda Arcs..................... 235
Eurasian domain....................... 243
China.......................... 245
Pamii-Balkhash region..................... 248
Mongolia-Baikal-Sinkiangarea.................. 249
Burma......................... 250
Himalaya......................... 251
Pakistan and West India.................... 252
Iran-Caspian Sea...................... 257
Asia Minor-Balkans..................... 260
Western Europe and North Africa................... 265
Seismicity and seismic geography.................. 265
CHAPTER 16. SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL SHIELDS............ 271
Introduction......................... 271
Africa and Arabia....................... 271
Seismicity and seismic geography.................. 271
Australia.......................... 272
Antarctica......................... 272
CHAPTER 17. OCEANIC RISES................... 277
Introduction......................... 277
Mid-Atlantic and Arctic Ridge.................... 277
Indian Ocean........................ 278
East-Central Pacific Rise and Hawaiian Islands............... 287
APPENDIX 1. Earthquake Regulations (Section 2314) of the 1968 Los Angeles County Building Code
Sec. 2314 - Earthquake regulations.................. 291
REFERENCES........................ 303
INDEX.......................... 309
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