{"id":136090,"date":"2022-02-25T22:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-model-may-improve-bay-area-seismic-hazard-maps"},"modified":"2022-02-25T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:27:04","slug":"new-model-may-improve-bay-area-seismic-hazard-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-model-may-improve-bay-area-seismic-hazard-maps","title":{"rendered":"New model may improve Bay Area seismic hazard maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-model-may-improve-bay-area-seismic-hazard-maps3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Santa Cruz Mountains define the geography of the Bay Area south of San Francisco, protecting the peninsula from the Pacific Ocean\u2019s cold marine layer and forming the region\u2019s notorious microclimates. The range also represents the perils of living in Silicon Valley: earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.<\/p>\n<p>In bursts that last seconds to minutes, earthquakes have moved the region\u2019s surface meters at a time. But researchers have never been able to reconcile the quick release of the Earth\u2019s stress and the bending of the Earth\u2019s crust over years with the formation of mountain ranges over millions of years. Now, by combining geological, geophysical, geochemical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/satellite+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">satellite data<\/a>, geologists have created a 3D tectonic model that resolves these timescales.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which appears in <i>Science Advances<\/i> Feb. 25, reveals that more mountain building happens in the period between <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/large+earthquakes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large earthquakes<\/a> along the San Andreas Fault, rather than during the quakes themselves. The findings may be used to improve local seismic hazard maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Santa Cruz Mountains define the geography of the Bay Area south of San Francisco, protecting the peninsula from the Pacific Ocean\u2019s cold marine layer and forming the region\u2019s notorious microclimates. The range also represents the perils of living in Silicon Valley: earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. In bursts that last seconds to minutes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}