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Learning outcomes

Week 4 Spring 2009

1)  Discuss the advantages of wood/metal framed buildings over unreinforced masonry or brick

2)  What are some methods used to retrofit buildings/bridges to make them earthquake stable

3)  How does the height of a building affect its ability to withstand an earthquake and what is meant by frequency amplification

4)  Discuss the size and depth of earthquakes that can occur in the following places

            along strike slip faults

            around volcanoes

             at subduction zones

5)  Be able to describe the San Andreas fault system with regards to location, fault type, type of quakes it produces and relative motion

6)  What is meant by a locked fault?

7)  Be able to discuss Parkfield and why it is so interesting to seismologist

8)  What is meant by a remotely triggered earthquake.  Understand distances and mechanisms involved?

9)  Why was the 1992 Landers earthquake so important to seismology?

10)  What is a volcanic earthquake and how is it different from other quakes?

11)  Discuss how earthquakes can trigger volcanic activity.  What is the mechanism involved?

12)  What type and depth of earthquakes are associated with subduction zones?

13)  What are a slow quakes and how do they relate to the build up of pressure along subduction zones?

14) What is the Benioff Zone and what is meant by a seismic gap

15)  What is SAFOD and Earthscope?