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Global tectonics and earthquake risk.
Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, New York,
Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.,
1974.
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| Colección: | Developments in geotectonics ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; PART I: GLOBAL TECTONICS; CHAPTER 1. Continuity and Change; SYNOPSIS; EVIDENCE OF CHANGE; GEOLOGIC CONTINUITY; CHAPTER 2. Geologic History; HISTORY OF PANGAEA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; DATING OF ROCKS IN THE FIELD; TECTONIC REVOLUTIONS; THE BREAKUP OF PANGAEA; CHAPTER 3. Earthquakes; INTRODUCTION; EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS; SEISMIC WAVES; MECHANISM AT THE SOURCE; ELASTICITY AND ANELASTICITY; EQUIVALENT VISCOSITY OF THE MANTLE; AFTERSHOCKS; EARTHQUAKES AND EXPLOSIONS; CHAPTER 4. Plate Tectonics.
- INTRODUCTIONTHE PLATE CONCEPT; GEOMETRY OF SEA-FLOOR SPREADING; TECTONICS OF SEA-FLOOR SPREADING; STRESSES IN LITHOSPHERIC PLATES; TRANSCURSION IN CALIFORNIA; VISCOELASTIC REBOUND AS AN EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; SUBDUCTION; ACCRETION; THE SOUTH AMERICAN WEST COAST; PART II: EARTHQUAKE RISK; CHAPTER 5. Stochastic Processes; INTRODUCTION; STATISTICS; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; INDEPENDENCE; STATIONARITY; HOMOGENEITY; CHAPTER 6. Point Processes; DEFINITION; THE POISSON PROCESS; MARKOV PROCESSES; RENEWAL PROCESSES; GENERALIZED POISSON PROCESSES; SUPERPOSITION; CHAPTER 7. Modelling the Earthquake Process.
- INTRODUCTIONA HEURISTIC MODEL FOR THE EARTHQUAKE PROCESS; THE KLONDIKE MODEL IN EARTHQUAKE THEORY; THE KOLMOGOROV PROCESS; BOLTZMANN PROCESSES; THE TAGGED SELF-EXCITING PROCESS; A TOPOLOGICAL MODEL; CHAPTER 8. Extreme- Value Methods; INTRODUCTION; EARTHQUAKE MAXIMA; AN APPLICATION TO CALIFORNIA; THE MAXIMUM MAGNITUDE IN A REGION; CHAPTER 9. Earthquake Zoning; WHY SEISMIC ZONING?; EARTHQUAKE ZONING IN THE U.S.A.; RISK MAPPING; APPROACHES TO EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; CHAPTER 10. Estimation Procedures for Earthquake Risk; INTRODUCTION; APPROACHES OF ANALYSIS; EXTREME-VALUE METHODS; BAYESIAN METHODS.
- OPTIMIZATION METHODSCOMPOSITION METHODS; ZONING METHODS; SIMULATION METHODS; A CASE HISTORY; PROJECT DESCRIPTION; GEOLOGIC SITUATION; SEISMOTECTONIC SETTING, ; SEISMIC HISTORY; ESTIMATION OF EARTHQUAKE RISK; ""PESSIMISTIC"" EARTHQUAKE RISK; ""POISSONIAN"" RISK; INCORPORATION OF HISTORICAL DATA; SUMMARY OF RISK ESTIMATES; CHAPTER 11. Strategies for Control of Earthquake Hazard; INTRODUCTION; INITIAL STRATEGIES; ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES; PREDICTION VERSUS PREVENTION?; AN EARTHQUAKE STRATEGY; PART III: WORLD SEISMICITY; CHAPTER 12. The Data; SEISMOGRAPHS; EARTHQUAKE DATA PROCESSING.
- ARRAY TECHNOLOGYCHAPTER 13. Seismic Regions of the World; INTRODUCTION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY MAPS; CHAPTER 14. Circum-Pacific Belt; INTRODUCTION; NORTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AND INSULAR AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; CHAPTER 15. East Asian Insular Belt and Eurasia; INTRODUCTION; EAST ASIAN INSULAR BELT; EURASIAN DOMAIN; WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA (Regions 31 and 36: Map 25; Table 15.13); CHAPTER 16. Southern Continental Shields; INTRODUCTION; AFRICA AND ARABIA (Region 37; Table 16.1); AUSTRALIA (Region 38; Table 16.2).