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Introduction to
Earthquake Engineering
Lecturers: A/Professor Jianchun LI
Contact Information:
Room: CB11.11.116 Email:Jianchun.Li@uts.edu.au
Ph:(02) 9514 2651 Fax: (02) 9514 2633
Earthquake Engineering
Seismicity
Earthquake Faults and Waves
Structure of the earth
Earthquake size
Earthquakes
What ?
How ?
Some facts
10/8/2014
Central
America
Spain
China
Japan
Chile
India
Iran
Earthquakes
Most earthquakes
occur along fractures in
the earths crust call
faults.
Most Faults occur along
the edges of major
plates that make up the
earths shell.
Intraplate earthquake
Interplate earthquake
Plate tectonics
Earthquake
Forms of ground motion near the ground surface in the four types of earthquake waves.
[From Bruce A. Bolt, Nuclear Explosions and Earthquakes: The Parted Veil (San Francisco: W.H.FreeMan and Company.
Copyright1976.]
Richter Magnitude
Empirical
Measure amount of strain energy released
Logarithm (base 10)
logE
13.3
14.8
16.3
17.8
19.3
20.8
22.3
23.8
E
1.99526E+13
6.30957E+14
1.99526E+16
6.30957E+17
1.99526E+19
6.30957E+20
1.99526E+22
6.30957E+23
E1/E2
31.62278
31.62278
31.62278
31.62278
31.62278
31.62278
31.62278