Disaster Management · TEE · read-chapter
Earthquakes
TEE core · taught concepts and descriptive answers; extended sums are optional
- How an earthquake starts: plates, faults, focus and epicentre
- Plate boundaries and earthquake classifications
- P, S, Love and Rayleigh waves; the seismograph
- Magnitude and intensity: the most important distinction
- What logarithmic magnitude means
- Seismic moment and magnitude: meaning and units
- Earthquake effects and why buildings fail
- Earthquake preparedness, response, recovery and cordons