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Tsunami. 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake. Tsunami Death Toll ~ 250,000. Dec 26 2004 Sumatra Earthquake 00:58:53 UTC. Magnitude 9.0 Latitude: 3.3N Longitude: 95.96E Depth: 30 km Tsunami. Earthquakes: Questions. Where? When? How big? Why? How do we measure eqks?
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2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake • Tsunami Death Toll ~ 250,000
Dec 26 2004Sumatra Earthquake 00:58:53 UTC • Magnitude 9.0 • Latitude: 3.3N • Longitude: 95.96E • Depth: 30 km • Tsunami
Earthquakes: Questions • Where? • When? • How big? • Why? • How do we measure eqks? • What do eqks tell us about how the earth? • How are eqks related to volcanoes, tsunami? • Can we predict them? • What can we do about them?
EAS/ENGR 122 Earthquake! www.eas.cornell.edu http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/brown/eas122/eas122home05.htm
National Earthquake Information Center(US Geological Survey) http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_slav.html 1900- present
Earthquake Geology San Andreas Fault, CA
Slow Earthquakes Miller et al., 2002 http://www.geodesy.cwu.edu/index.html?page=http%3A//www.geodesy.cwu.edu/pubs/p_37.html
How Big? C.F. Richter
Earthquakes Volanoes Mt. Pinatubo, June 15, 1991
Tsunami Alaska, 1964