RAT ISLAND EARTHQUAKE

PREPARED BY: MEET PATEL

(14CL072)
 INTRODUCTION
• The Rat Islands are part of the Aleutian Islands, which are on
the tip of Alaska.
• The main islands that were impacted were: Adak Island,
Sheyma Island, and Attu Island.
• The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred at 05:01 UTC, on 4
February (19:01, 3 February local time).
• It had a magnitude of 8.7 and triggered a tsunami of over 10
m on Shemya Island, but caused very little damage.
TECTONIC PLATES & TYPE OF FAULT
• The pacific and north american were involved.
• They collide with each other at reverse fault or
a converging plate boundary.
• Tectonic plate –
• Faults-
 EFFECTS ON HUMANS
• This earthquake caused a 10 meter high
Tsunami on Sheyma Island and Floods on
Amchitka Islands.
• No one was injured or killed as it was on a
remote location.
• There was about $10,000 worth of damage
done,icluding cracks in runways on Shyema
Islands and at the U.S. Coast Guard Loran
Station on Attu Island.
 REFERENCES
NGDC. "Search result for 1965 Alaska earthquakes". Retrieved 8 March 2010.
• ^ a b USGS (26 October 2009). "Historic Earthquakes Rat Islands, Alaska".
Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
• ^ Beck, S.L.; Christensen D.H. (1991). "Rupture Process of the February 4,
1965, Rat Islands Earthquake". Journal of Geophysical Research. 96 (B"):
2205–2221. Bibcode:1991JGR....96.2205B. doi:10.1029/90JB02092.
Retrieved 2010-03-08.
• ^ Johnson, J.M. (1999). "Heterogeneous coupling along Alaska-Aleutians as
inferred from Tsunami, Seismic and Geodetic Inversions". In Dmowska R. &
Saltzman B. Tsunamigenic Earthquakes and Their Consequences. Advances
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• ^ Abe, K. (1972). "Lithospheric normal faulting beneath the Aleutian
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 PREVENTION
• Dampers similar to the shock
Absorbers on car could have been
place as well.
• Shelves, cupboards and other things
attached with the walls could be
bolted down.
 Box action in Masonry wall
• Masonry is a nonhomogeneous material,
composed of units and mortar, which can be
of different types, with distinct mechanical
properties.
• Brick masonry buildings have large mass and
hence attract large horizontal forces during
earthquake shaking.
• They develop numerous cracks under both
compressive and tensile forces caused by
earthquake shaking.
• Appropriate choice of structural configuration
can help achieve this of structural
configuration.
• To make structure Earthquake resistant, a
good box action between all the elements is
necessary.
• Good box action system means to act all the
units of building as a single unit. i.e between
roof,walls & foundation.
• For example, a horizontal band introduced at
the lintel level ties the walls together and
helps to make them behave as a single unit.