Tag Archives: fault

United States Geological Survey video shows the impressive ability of “light detection and ranging radar” (LIDAR) to penetrate vegetation and show geological faults — their example comes from Lake Tahoe, California 0

Citation Kevin Bazar, Sandra Bond, and Jim Howle, Using bare-earth LiDAR imagery to reveal the Tahoe – Sierra frontal fault zone Lake Tahoe, California, Unites States Geological Survey (17 May 2012) (with embedded video) The pointing finger The videographers went to the trouble to include a pointing finger icon in the video.  It traces the [...]

Science article about dam building on the Yangtze/Jinsha River surveys evidence for increased earthquake risk 0

Citation Jane Qiu, Trouble on the Yangtze, Science 336(6079): 288-291 (20 April 2012) China’s emphasis on hydropower The Chinese government has set a goal of achieving 15 percent non-fossil energy production by 2020.  Author Jane Qiu says that most of this will come from hydropower.  And much of that from what the Chinese call the [...]

Tropical cyclones as a cause of earthquakes along inclined faults? — Proving this is going to be difficult 0

The hypothesis is that heavy rain causes landslides, which unload inclined tropical faults enough for them to move Shimon Wdowinski’s 08 December presentation at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting was novel.  He said that he and a colleague had found an up to four-year temporal correlation between wet tropical cyclones and large earthquakes in [...]