Study Guide for Oceanography Test 2016
... Sodium Chloride is the most abundant salt in ocean water As depth increases so does the pressure Deep currents in the ocean are caused by density differences either through salinity content or temperature differences Currents carry warm water from the tropics towards the poles Waves are ca ...
... Sodium Chloride is the most abundant salt in ocean water As depth increases so does the pressure Deep currents in the ocean are caused by density differences either through salinity content or temperature differences Currents carry warm water from the tropics towards the poles Waves are ca ...
Name
... Name of the fault line that runs along California and causes most of the CA earthquakes. Name the Missouri fault that caused major earthquake between 1811 and 1812 and would cause damage in Indiana if an earthquake occurred today. Which city burnt down in an earthquake in 1906? Most U.S. earthquake ...
... Name of the fault line that runs along California and causes most of the CA earthquakes. Name the Missouri fault that caused major earthquake between 1811 and 1812 and would cause damage in Indiana if an earthquake occurred today. Which city burnt down in an earthquake in 1906? Most U.S. earthquake ...
Lecture 7
... EQs generated on faults Faults = brittle failure by stress The rupture/brittle failure of a fault is caused by stresses (tectonic or loading) in the lithosphere ...
... EQs generated on faults Faults = brittle failure by stress The rupture/brittle failure of a fault is caused by stresses (tectonic or loading) in the lithosphere ...
EarthquakesHnrs2
... made of stone, concrete, etc. Wooden structures are resilient and sustain less damage High-rise, steel-frame buildings are often reinforced and sustain less damage Buildings may rest on rubber structures to absorb vibrations Soft sediments amplify vibrations more than solid bedrock Liquefaction: soi ...
... made of stone, concrete, etc. Wooden structures are resilient and sustain less damage High-rise, steel-frame buildings are often reinforced and sustain less damage Buildings may rest on rubber structures to absorb vibrations Soft sediments amplify vibrations more than solid bedrock Liquefaction: soi ...
Earthquakes - Cobb Learning
... • Earthquakes can cause tsunamis to happen. • Tsunamis are a series of enormous waves created by an ...
... • Earthquakes can cause tsunamis to happen. • Tsunamis are a series of enormous waves created by an ...
Cornell Notes Template
... Seismograph- an instrument that detects and records seismic waves Seismogram- chart made by a seismograph in response to a earthquake Earthquakes produce three types of waves. Each waves travels at a different speed and causes the Earth’s crust to move in different ways: 1) P waves (primary waves) ...
... Seismograph- an instrument that detects and records seismic waves Seismogram- chart made by a seismograph in response to a earthquake Earthquakes produce three types of waves. Each waves travels at a different speed and causes the Earth’s crust to move in different ways: 1) P waves (primary waves) ...
Waves Fact Sheet Anything that causes water to move can produce
... By Margaret Olsen, Southeast COSEE Education Specialist ...
... By Margaret Olsen, Southeast COSEE Education Specialist ...
Earthquakes 1. How is most of the energy of an earthquake
... it has caused. Two of these measuring scales are the Mercalli scale and the Richter scale. Which of these is measured on a scale of 1 to 12? ...
... it has caused. Two of these measuring scales are the Mercalli scale and the Richter scale. Which of these is measured on a scale of 1 to 12? ...
Glossary
... aftershock: an earthquake that follows a larger earthquake or main shock and originates in or near the rupture zone of the larger earthquake. Generally, major earthquakes are followed by a number of aftershocks that decrease in size and frequency with time. Aftershocks can cause further damage to we ...
... aftershock: an earthquake that follows a larger earthquake or main shock and originates in or near the rupture zone of the larger earthquake. Generally, major earthquakes are followed by a number of aftershocks that decrease in size and frequency with time. Aftershocks can cause further damage to we ...
Tsunami Ready Newsletter_No_1_August _2011ro
... person per day. This can amount to a lot of water considering that some hotels will evacuate well over 1000 people and not all hotels are able to maintain permanent water storage of such size. As a pragmatic solution to this challenge some hotels implemented an SOP to plug and fill top floor bath tu ...
... person per day. This can amount to a lot of water considering that some hotels will evacuate well over 1000 people and not all hotels are able to maintain permanent water storage of such size. As a pragmatic solution to this challenge some hotels implemented an SOP to plug and fill top floor bath tu ...
Ocean Waves
... of the wind and on the length of time it blows Gentle breeze = small ripples on the surface Strong winds = larger waves Longer distances that the wind blows build up bigger waves ...
... of the wind and on the length of time it blows Gentle breeze = small ripples on the surface Strong winds = larger waves Longer distances that the wind blows build up bigger waves ...
Convergent Boundaries
... •Focus is the point of sudden energy release •Epicenter is located at the earth’s surface immediately above the focus ...
... •Focus is the point of sudden energy release •Epicenter is located at the earth’s surface immediately above the focus ...
Phyical geology
... Vibration of the ground-Causes damage to structures Thixotropic sediment causes ground to flow. Thixotropic is a term used to refer to a solid that flows when vibrated or jolted Tsunami-seismic sea waves Fires Landslides Well water levels fluctuate; 1964 Alaska caused wells in SE US to fluctuate by ...
... Vibration of the ground-Causes damage to structures Thixotropic sediment causes ground to flow. Thixotropic is a term used to refer to a solid that flows when vibrated or jolted Tsunami-seismic sea waves Fires Landslides Well water levels fluctuate; 1964 Alaska caused wells in SE US to fluctuate by ...
Section Review
... 8. A seismic wave is traveling through the Earth at an average rate of speed of 8 km/s. How long will it take the wave to travel 480 km? Show your work below. ...
... 8. A seismic wave is traveling through the Earth at an average rate of speed of 8 km/s. How long will it take the wave to travel 480 km? Show your work below. ...
Task 3 - Earthquakes and Tsunamis
... TSUNMANIS: Tsunamis are ocean waves caused by large earthquakes and landslides that occur near or under the ocean in oceanic crust. Tsunami waves are unlike typical ocean waves generated by wind, storms, or tides. They do not "break" like the curling, wind-generated waves. Even "small" tsunamis (for ...
... TSUNMANIS: Tsunamis are ocean waves caused by large earthquakes and landslides that occur near or under the ocean in oceanic crust. Tsunami waves are unlike typical ocean waves generated by wind, storms, or tides. They do not "break" like the curling, wind-generated waves. Even "small" tsunamis (for ...
iii-e: lacustrine evidence for seismic sea waves on the west coast of
... events will also affect areas much farther away from the epicentre. In particular, earthquakes will cause considerable disturbance to the geological environment, promoting tectonic displacements (uplift and/or subsidence of the coastlines), liquefaction (internal disturbance of sedimentary horizons) ...
... events will also affect areas much farther away from the epicentre. In particular, earthquakes will cause considerable disturbance to the geological environment, promoting tectonic displacements (uplift and/or subsidence of the coastlines), liquefaction (internal disturbance of sedimentary horizons) ...
Earthquakes - Chapter 10
... Destructive waves called “tidal waves” Result from “push” of underwater fault or undersea landslide In open ocean height is > 1 meter In shallow coast water wave can be > 30 meters Very destructive ...
... Destructive waves called “tidal waves” Result from “push” of underwater fault or undersea landslide In open ocean height is > 1 meter In shallow coast water wave can be > 30 meters Very destructive ...
Tsunami - science-b
... Define the terms tsunami. Tsunami: An immense swell, or wave, of ocean water triggered by an earthquake, volcano, or landslide, that can travel long distances across oceans and inundate coasts. ...
... Define the terms tsunami. Tsunami: An immense swell, or wave, of ocean water triggered by an earthquake, volcano, or landslide, that can travel long distances across oceans and inundate coasts. ...
Tsunami
A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波, lit. ""harbor wave"";English pronunciation: /tsuːˈnɑːmi/), also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. In being generated by the displacement of water, a tsunami contrasts both with a normal ocean wave generated by wind and with tides, which are generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on bodies of water.Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves, although this usage is not favored by the scientific community because tsunamis are not tidal in nature. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called ""wave train"". Wave heights of tens of meters can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with at least 230,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his late-5th century BC History of the Peloponnesian War, that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes, but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.