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    Rat Island Earthquake: Prepared By: Meet Patel (14CL072)

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    The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred on February 4th with a magnitude of 8.7. It triggered a 10 meter tsunami on Shemya Island but caused little damage overall. The earthquake was caused by the collision of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at a convergent boundary. The main effects were a large tsunami on Shemya Island and minor flooding and cracks in infrastructure on some of the remote, unpopulated Aleutian Islands.

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    The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred on February 4th with a magnitude of 8.7. It triggered a 10 meter tsunami on Shemya Island but caused little damage overall. The earthquake was caused by the collision of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at a convergent boundary. The main effects were a large tsunami on Shemya Island and minor flooding and cracks in infrastructure on some of the remote, unpopulated Aleutian Islands.

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    The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred on February 4th with a magnitude of 8.7. It triggered a 10 meter tsunami on Shemya Island but caused little damage overall. The earthquake was caused by the collision of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at a convergent boundary. The main effects were a large tsunami on Shemya Island and minor flooding and cracks in infrastructure on some of the remote, unpopulated Aleutian Islands.

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    Rat Island Earthquake: Prepared By: Meet Patel (14CL072)

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    The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred on February 4th with a magnitude of 8.7. It triggered a 10 meter tsunami on Shemya Island but caused little damage overall. The earthquake was caused by the collision of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates at a convergent boundary. The main effects were a large tsunami on Shemya Island and minor flooding and cracks in infrastructure on some of the remote, unpopulated Aleutian Islands.

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    RAT ISLAND EARTHQUAKE

    PREPARED BY: MEET PATEL


    (14CL072)
    INTRODUCTION
    • The Rat Islands are part of the Aleutian Islands, which are on
    the tip of Alaska.
    • The main islands that were impacted were: Adak Island,
    Sheyma Island, and Attu Island.
    • The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake occurred at 05:01 UTC, on 4
    February (19:01, 3 February local time).
    • It had a magnitude of 8.7 and triggered a tsunami of over 10
    m on Shemya Island, but caused very little damage.
    TECTONIC PLATES & TYPE OF FAULT
    • The pacific and north american were involved.
    • They collide with each other at reverse fault or
    a converging plate boundary.
    • Tectonic plate –
    • Faults-
    EFFECTS ON HUMANS
    • This earthquake caused a 10 meter high
    Tsunami on Sheyma Island and Floods on
    Amchitka Islands.
    • No one was injured or killed as it was on a
    remote location.
    • There was about $10,000 worth of damage
    done,icluding cracks in runways on Shyema
    Islands and at the U.S. Coast Guard Loran
    Station on Attu Island.
    REFERENCES
    NGDC. "Search result for 1965 Alaska earthquakes". Retrieved 8 March 2010.
    • ^ a b USGS (26 October 2009). "Historic Earthquakes Rat Islands, Alaska".
    Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
    • ^ Beck, S.L.; Christensen D.H. (1991). "Rupture Process of the February 4,
    1965, Rat Islands Earthquake". Journal of Geophysical Research. 96 (B"):
    2205–2221. Bibcode:1991JGR....96.2205B. doi:10.1029/90JB02092.
    Retrieved 2010-03-08.
    • ^ Johnson, J.M. (1999). "Heterogeneous coupling along Alaska-Aleutians as
    inferred from Tsunami, Seismic and Geodetic Inversions". In Dmowska R. &
    Saltzman B. Tsunamigenic Earthquakes and Their Consequences. Advances
    in Geophysics. 39. pp. 28–55. ISBN 978-0-12-018839-0. Retrieved 2010-03-
    08.
    • ^ Abe, K. (1972). "Lithospheric normal faulting beneath the Aleutian
    trench". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 5: 109–
    198. Bibcode:1972PEPI....5..190A. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(72)90091-X.
    PREVENTION
    • Dampers similar to the shock
    Absorbers on car could have been
    place as well.
    • Shelves, cupboards and other things
    attached with the walls could be
    bolted down.
    Box action in Masonry wall
    • Masonry is a nonhomogeneous material,
    composed of units and mortar, which can be
    of different types, with distinct mechanical
    properties.
    • Brick masonry buildings have large mass and
    hence attract large horizontal forces during
    earthquake shaking.
    • They develop numerous cracks under both
    compressive and tensile forces caused by
    earthquake shaking.
    • Appropriate choice of structural configuration
    can help achieve this of structural
    configuration.
    • To make structure Earthquake resistant, a
    good box action between all the elements is
    necessary.
    • Good box action system means to act all the
    units of building as a single unit. i.e between
    roof,walls & foundation.
    • For example, a horizontal band introduced at
    the lintel level ties the walls together and
    helps to make them behave as a single unit.

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