Thesis (M.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-142). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Historical accounts of earthquakes show a high degree of spatial variability and uncertainty associated with ground motion. For this reason, historical data are not often used as input for earthquake hazard assessment. Regionally, however, earthquake ground motion is related by the concept of attenuation. Seismic hazard assessment techniques usually rely on catalogues of earthquake epicenters together with empirical attenuation relationships to define the seismic hazard for a particular region. Such techniques, however, overlook local variations in ground motion associated with actual earthquakes. A technique for seismic hazard assessment that includes historical data using the theory of regionalized variables and linear estimation techniques best represents ground motion dichotomy. Modified Mercalli intensity observations for the period 1930 through 1971 were treated as regionalized variables to define the seismic hazard for a region of Southern California centered around San Fernando. Despite variations in construction quality and individual sensitivity to ground motion, intensity values associated with seventy percent of the earthquakes that occurred during this period, for which at least five intensity observations were recorded, were accurately treated as regionalized variables. A Gumbel analysis computed using spatially regular data sets developed from these intensity values precisely associated high hazard regions with active faults near San Fernando. Other earthquake ground motion data can also be treated, accurately, as regionalized variables. These data include peak instrument recordings of spectral acceleration, velocity, and displacement. Moreover, response to earthquake ground motion at discrete frequencies, as recorded by response spectra, is also regionalized. These data, therefore, are accurately estimated using kriging. Fundamentally, because earthquake ground motion is shown to be a regionalized variable, all aspects of regionalized variables theory are applicable for these data, including disjunctive kriging, conditional simulation, and co-kriging.

Nine west-northwest-trending faults on the continental margin of Oregon and Washington, between 43° 05'N and 470 20'N latitude, have been mapped using seismic reflection, sidescan sonar, submersibles, and swath bathymetry. Five of these oblique faults are found on both the Juan de Fuca and North American plates, and offset abyssal plain sedimentary units left-laterally from 2.0 to 5.5 km. These five faults extend 8-18 km northwestward from the deformation front. The remaining four faults, found only on the North American plate, are also inferred to have a left-lateral slip sense. The age of the Wecoma fault on the abyssal plain is 600±50 ka, and has an average slip rate of 7-1 0 mm/year. Slip rates of the other four abyssal plain faults are 5.5 ± 2 - 6. 7 ± 3 mm/yr. These faults are active, as indicated by offset of the youngest sedimentary units, surficial fault scarps, offsets of surficial channels, and deep fluid venting. All nine faults have been surveyed on the continental slope using SeaMARC 1A sidescan sonar, and three of them were surveyed with a high-resolution AMS 150 sidescan sonar on the continental shelf off central Oregon. On the continental slope, the faults are expressed as linear, high-angle WNW trending scarps, and WNW trending fault-parallel folds that we interpret as flower structures. Active structures on the shelf include folds trending from NNE to WNW and associated flexural slip thrust faulting; NNW to N trending right-lateral strike-slip faults; and WNW trending left-lateral strike-slip faults. Some of these structures intersect the coast and can be correlated with onshore Quaternary faults and folds, and others are suspected to be deforming the coastal region. These structures may be contributing to the coastal marsh stratigraphic record of co-seismic subsidence events in the Holocene. We postulate that the set of nine WNW trending left-lateral strike-slip faults extend and rotate the forearc clockwise, absorbing most or all of the arc parallel component of plate convergence. The high rate of forearc deformation implies that the Cascadia forearc may lack the rigidity to generate M > 8.2 earthquakes. From a comparison of Cascadia seismogenic zone geometry to data from circum-Pacific great earthquakes of this century, the maximum Cascadia rupture is estimated to be 500 to 600 km in length, with a 150-400 km rupture length in best agreement with historical data. / Graduation date: 1994

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. / Open access. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144). Print copy also available.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1981. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 91-93. / by Lucile Merrill Jones. / Ph.D.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第24172号 / 理博第4863号 / 新制||理||1696(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科地球惑星科学専攻 / (主査)准教授 宮澤 理稔, 教授 久家 慶子, 准教授 ENESCU Bogdan Dumitru / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 22, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Brent L. Rosenblad. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-217).

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND LINDGREN. / Includes bibliographies. / by Keiichiro Ikeda. / Ph.D.