• Rufus Catchings on Pinning Down California's Faults

  • Sep 20 2024
  • Length: 34 mins
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Rufus Catchings on Pinning Down California's Faults

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  • Knowing exactly where faults are located is important both for scientific reasons and for assessing how much damage a fault could inflict if it ruptured and caused an earthquake. In the podcast, Rufus Catchings describes how we can use natural and artificial sources of seismic waves to create high-resolution images of fault profiles. He also explains how faults can act as seismic waveguides, an effect that enables us to determine whether faults are connected to each other. In Napa, a famous wine-growing area near San Francisco, he used guided waves to determine that an active fault is actually ten times longer than previously thought. Rufus Catchings is a Research Geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS). Over the past 40 years, he has studied many dozens of faults in California and elsewhere to pin down their precise locations and help assess the risks they pose.
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