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Publications tagged with [large earthquakes]

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The recent elevated rate of large earthquakes has fueled concern that the underlying global rate of earthquake activity has increased, which would have important implications for assessments of seismic hazard and our understanding of how faults interact. We ...
Reference: PNAS - January 17, 2012 - vol. 109 - no. 3 - 717-721
<p>We review the long term evolution of seismicity in the eastern Marmara Sea over a decade, before and after the 1999 Mw 7.6 Izmit earthquake. We analyze large scale space-time variations of seismicity in the region and illustrate the impact of the recent ...
Reference: Tectonophysics 510 (2011) 17–27
This paper is about the numerical simulation of historic earhquakes, in order to improve the knowledge of past phenomena and contribute to the assessment of the regional seismic hazard.
Reference: "8eme colloque AFPS, Vers une maitrise durable du risque sismique, Champs-sur-Marne :France (2011)"
The goal of this paper is to show which areas are particularly prone to earthquake-induced slope failure. In this regard, the paper considers the short- and long-term effects of geological, tectonic, climatic and morphological conditions. Case histories related ...
Reference: 2nd INQUA-IGCP-567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering, Corinth, Greece (2011)
<p>This report is about a M5.4 earthquake that shook the greater Los Angeles on July 29th, 2008.</p>
The 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake triggered several thousand landslides. These were mainly rock falls and debris falls, although translational rock and debris slides also occurred. In addition, a sturzstrom (debris avalanche) comprising ∼80 million m3 ...
Reference: Geomorphology 94 (2008) 1–9
In this study are constructed finite element models (FEMs) that simulate deformation of the earthquake for a three-dimensional problem domain partitioned to account for the distribution of material properties of the subducting slab, forearc, volcanic arc, ...
Reference: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L19310, doi:10.1029/2008GL035198, 2008
To understand the reason why the co-seismic slip and tsunami amplitudes were so high in this region, was performed the "Sumatra Aftershocks" cruise (R/V Marion Dufresne, Jakarta, July 15 - Colombo, August 9, 2005) in order to establish the geodynamical context ...
Reference: "EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS NOV 15 2007; 263 (1-2) 88-103"
To understand the role of the co-seismic moment magnitude, Mw, 9.1–9.3 Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake rupture mechanism on the severity of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, we used permanent Global Positioning System (GPS) data and carried out an analysis of co-seismic ...
Reference: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261 (2007) 49–64
This review starts with the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the associated Indian Ocean tsunami, then proceeds to offer long-term perspectives from earthquakes and tsunamis recorded geologically on the Pacic Rim. Histories of earthquakes and tsunamis, ...
Reference: Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2007. 35:349-74