The Importance Of Earthquake

As technology advances, scientists are better prepared to understand and predict location and potential size of earthquakes. I have decided to focus on the geological side of predicting earthquakes since geology is my major. Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates slide against one another. Earthquakes can change “size” depending on the movement or speed of tectonic plates, as well as, the frequency of plate movement. Plates that have not moved recently have more built up pressure and will have a stronger, more aggressive earthquake. For instance: earthquakes are extremely common in California. Even though the earthquakes in California are bad, an earthquake in Mississippi could potentially be more catastrophic. The tectonic plates in Mississippi …show more content…
16). This model simplified the multi-block constitutive model and uses effective stress and excess pore pressure to predict the earthquake-induced landslides. The model was developed and applied by using earthquake simulations. This article was written to educate geologists on new ways of predicting earthquakes by using the triggers and displacements …show more content…
Beroza and G. Prieto stated that “Seismic hazard analysis, in which ground motion from hypothetical future earthquakes is simulated directly, without the need for modeling the detailed heterogeneity of the Earth’s crust as an intermediate step” (p. 35). Although in the past geologists used Attenuation laws (motion intensity measurement) to predict an earthquake, they are now trying to predict earthquakes through simulation. Simulation use must minimalize uncertainty by focusing on linear-way change in relation to the Earth’s structure. This article was written for geologists with a background in computer technology because it discusses computer simulation to predict