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Natural Hazards Mitigation PlanCity of Glendale, CaliforniaSection 6 – EarthquakesAlthough great advances in earthquake engineering have been made in the last decade, in great partas a result of the 1994 Northridge, California, 1995 Kobe, Japan, 1999 Izmit, Turkey and 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquakes, the majority of California communities remain unprepared because there isa general lack of understanding regarding earthquake hazards among Californians. It is not possibleto prevent earthquakes, but their destructive effects can be minimized. Comprehensive hazardmitigation programs that include the identification and mapping of hazards, prudent planning, publiceducation, emergency exercises, enforcement of building codes, and expedient retrofitting andrehabilitation of weak structures can significantly reduce the scope of an earthquake’s effects andavoid disaster. Local government, emergency relief organizations, and residents must take action todevelop and implement policies and programs to reduce the effects of earthquakes.Earthquake Basics - DefinitionsThe outer 10 - 70 kilometers of the Earth consist of enormous blocks of moving rock, called plates.There are about a dozen major plates, which slowly collide, separate, and grind past each other. In2006 PAGE 6 - 3
Natural Hazards Mitigation PlanCity of Glendale, CaliforniaSection 6 – Earthquakesthe uppermost plates, friction locks the plate edges together, while movement continues at depth.Consequently, the near-surface rocks bend and deform near plate boundaries, storing strain energy.Eventually, the frictional forces are overcome and the locked portions of the plates move. The storedstrain energy is released in waves.By definition, the break or fracture between moving blocks of rock is called a fault, and suchdifferential movement produces a fault rupture. The place where the fault first ruptures is called thefocus (or hypocenter). The released energy waves radiate out in all directions from the rupturesurface, making the earth vibrate and shake as the waves travel through. This shaking is what wefeel in an earthquake.Although faults exist everywhere, most earthquakes occur on or near plate boundaries. Thus,southern California has many earthquakes, because it straddles the boundary between the NorthAmerican and Pacific plates, and fault rupture accommodates their motion. The Pacific Plate ismoving northwesterly, relative to the North American Plate, at about 50 mm/yr. This is about therate at which fingernails grow, and seems unimpressive. However, it is enough to accumulateenormous amounts of strain energy over dozens to thousands of years. Despite being locked inplace most of the time, in another 15 million years (a short time in the context of the Earth’s history),due to plate movements, Glendale will be hundreds of kilometers north of San Francisco.Although the San Andreas fault marks the actual separation between the Pacific and North Americanplates, only about 70 percent of the plate motion occurs on the San Andreas fault itself. The rest isdistributed among other faults of the San Andreas system, including the San Jacinto, Whittier-Elsinore, Newport-Inglewood, Palos Verdes, plus several offshore faults; and among faults of theEastern Mojave Shear Zone, a series of faults east of the San Andreas, responsible for the 1992Landers and 1999 Hector Mine earthquakes. (M W stands for moment magnitude, a measure ofearthquake energy release, discussed below.) Thus, the zone of plate-boundary earthquakes andground deformation covers an area that stretches from the Pacific Ocean to Nevada.Because the Pacific and North American plates are sliding past each other, with relative motions tothe northwest and southeast, respectively, all of the faults mentioned above are aligned northwestsoutheast,and are strike-slip faults. On average, strike-slip faults are nearly vertical breaks in therock, and when a strike-slip fault ruptures, the rocks on either side of the fault slide horizontally pasteach other.However, about 75 miles northeast of Glendale, there is a kink in the San Andreas fault, commonlyreferred to as the “Big Bend.” Near the Big Bend, the two plates do not slide past each other.Instead, they collide, causing localized compression, resulting in folding and thrust faulting. Thrustfaults meet the surface of the Earth at a low angle, dipping 25 – 45 degrees from the horizontal.Thrusts are a type of dip-slip fault, where rocks on opposite sides of the fault move up or downrelative to each other. When a thrust fault ruptures, the top block of rock moves up and over therock on the other side of the fault.Strike-slip faults are vertical or almost verticalrifts where the earth’s plates move mostlyhorizontally. From the observer’s perspective, ifthe opposite block looking across the fault movesto the right, the slip style is called a right- lateralfault; if the block moves left, the shift is called aleft-lateral fault.Normal faultReverse fault2006 PAGE 6 - 4
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