Intraplate Earthquakes
About this book
Intraplate earthquakes occur away from tectonic plate boundaries: their locations are difficult to predict, risking huge damage and loss of life. The 2001 Bhuj earthquake (featured in this book) was the largest intraplate earthquake for three decades and has provided unique insight into these events. This cutting-edge book brings together research from international leading experts in the field. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of these earthquakes in a different global location, ranging from Australia, China, India and the Sea of Japan, to Western Europe, Brazil, New Madrid (Central USA), and Eastern Canada. They explore similarities and differences between regional features and the mechanical models required to explain them, as well as assessing geophysical techniques used to investigate them. Providing the first global overview of intraplate earthquakes, this is an essential book for academic researchers and professionals in seismology, tectonics, tectonophysics, geodesy, structural geology, earthquake dynamics, geophysics, and structural engineering.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Intraplate earthquakes in Australia
- 3 Intraplate seismicity in Brazil
- 4 Earthquakes and geological structures of the St. Lawrence Rift System
- 5 Intraplate earthquakes in North China
- 6 Seismogenesis of earthquakes occurring in the ancient rift basin of Kachchh, Western India
- 7 The New Madrid seismic zone of the Central United States
- 8 The impact of the earthquake activity in Western Europe from the historical and architectural heritage records
- 9 Intraplate earthquakes induced by reactivation of buried ancient rift system along the eastern margin of the Japan Sea
- 10 Deep controls on intraplate basin inversion
- 11 Unified model for intraplate earthquakes
- 12 Intraplate seismic hazard: Evidence for distributed strain and implications for seismic hazard
- 13 Conclusions
- Index