Geo Dina Mika
Geo Dina Mika
Geo Dina Mika
Focus
Fault
Press & Siever, 1984, p. 400
Press & Siever, 1984, p. 398
Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake - Good Friday, 1964
Loma Prieta (California) Earthquake, 1989
Production of Tsunami Waves by Earthquakes
December 26, 2004 Earthquake-Generated Tsunami
(Red = Wave Heights Measured by Jason 1 Satellite)
Longitudinal Waves Transverse Waves
Propagation of Seismic Waves Through Earth’s Interior
Longitudinal waves travel through
both solids and liquids.
Present
Mountain Building Processes
• Observing the solid Earth from space has many unique advantages
in comparison to ground- and aircraft-based measurements.
• In particular, satellites in appropriate orbits can make observations of
the entire Earth, at repeated intervals and/or over long periods of
time, using a variety of instrumentation and observing techniques.
• The first major satellite program dedicated to solid Earth observations
was the LandSat series, beginning in the mid-1960’s.
• The most recent, and most capable, mission of this type is the
currently operational Terra satellite, launched in February, 2000.
• Terra is the first of three major Earth science satellites, constituting
NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS).
• More recently launched sister satellites, in this three-satellite series,
are the Aqua satellite (for studies of Earth’s oceans and other water
bodies) and the Aura satellite (for studies of Earth’s atmosphere from
above).
The Terra Earth Observing Satellite Mission
• The Terra mission (EOS-1) was
launched February 24, 2000.
• The primary scientific objectives of the
Terra mission include studies of the
following:
– What are Aerosols?
– Changing Global Cloudiness
– Why Isn’t Earth Hot as an Oven?
– Changing Global Land Surface