The great Sumatra–Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004 (UTC 00:58:53) was a momentous event, whether measured by scientific or human standards. Sadly, what is currently regarded as the third largest earthquake in recorded history led to the worst tsunami disaster in recorded history, with the loss of more than 200,000 lives and devastation throughout the Bay of Bengal. About three months late...

This paper describes the results of an extensive study on the seismic behavior of a structure with damper and without damper under different earthquake acceleration frequency like Earthquake Altadena, Earthquake Lucerne and Earthquake New Hall. It is observed through nonlinear time history analysis that maximum displacement, maximum base shear and maximum acceleration can be effectively reduced...

BACKGROUND After the East Japan Earthquake disaster there may have been a deterioration of patients with cardiovascular diseases. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined the data from 189 consecutive patients implanted with cardiovascular devices for the 6-month period before and after the Earthquake. In 170 patients with defibrillators, the number who experienced tachyarrhythmias increased significa...

We describe the findings on the current state and challenges of pediatric psychiatry in Fukushima prefecture following the Great East Japan Earthquake. When examining the time elapsed after the earthquake, there is an impression that psychiatric problems become apparent in the early period after the earthquake in mothers who had demonstrated vulnerability in development and nurturing before the...

There is anecdotal evidence for profound behavioral changes prior to and during earthquakes in many organisms, including arthropods such as ants. Behavioral or physiological analysis has often, in light of these reports, been proposed as a means of earthquake prediction. We report here a serendipitous study of the effect of the powerful Landers earthquake in the Mojave Desert, USA (Richter magn...

[1] Using the example of the 1992 M 7.3 Landers earthquake, we show that in the aftermath of a large earthquake the depth extent of aftershocks shows an immediate deepening from pre-earthquake levels, followed by a time-dependent postseismic shallowing. We use these seismic data to constrain the change in the depth of the seismic-aseismic transition with time throughout the earthquake cycle. Mo...

Present statistics, resting on far too slight a basis, indicate the risk to life and limb in California to be small-ridiculously small, less than the risk from common trivial diseases. But this is not a true picture. It is due to the past occurrence of the small number -of greater shocks at fortunate times of day. Had the Long Beach earthquake, or that at Santa Barbara, for example, to say noth...

The tectonically complex San Francisco Bay Region (SFBR) contains both known and unidentified faults that produce a broad range of earthquake sizes at different rates of occurrence. In this chapter we use fault zone information developed in the previous chapter to construct an earthquake source model that describes long-term rates of earthquake production in the SFBR. Specifically, this SFBR ea...

1. Distribution of earthquakes on the Earth 2. Reasons for earthquakes in the Earth's crust 3. Types of the Earth's lithosphere and Plate Tectonics 4. Types of seismic waves 5. Measurement of the size of an earthquake 6. The models of earthquake source 7. Nature of deep (mantle) earthquakes 8. Earthquake recurrence interval study 9. Earthquakes as a motor for geodynamic processes 10. Correspond...

In accordance with the Seismo-Geothermics theory about methods of intracrustal strong earthquake and volcano prediction, we use the ANSS earthquake catalogue from the Northern California earthquake data center and the EMSC earthquake catalogue from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre to study the seismic activities of the Turkish Branch Seismic Cone in the Mediterranean Seismic Cone...