Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

Dr. João C. Duarte, Research Fellow at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Wouter P. Schellart, Associate Professor at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Contributors viiPreface xi1 Introduction to Plate Boundaries and Natural HazardsJoão C Duarte and Wouter P Schellart 1Part I Reviews 112 Rifts and Rifted Margins: A Review of Geodynamic Processes and Natural HazardsSascha Brune 133 Origin, Evolution, Seismicity, and Models of Oceanic and Continental Transform BoundariesTaras V Gerya 394 An Introduction to Convergent Margins and Their Natural HazardsRobert J Stern, David W Scholl, and Gerard Fryer 77Part II Earthquakes and Related Natural Hazards 995 Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Advances in Our Understanding a Decade after Sumatra, 2004Marc]André Gutscher 1016 Promise and Paradox: Why Improved Knowledge of Plate Tectonics Has Not Yielded Correspondingly Better Earthquake Hazard MapsSeth Stein, Mian Liu, Bruce D Spencer, and Edward M Brooks 1237 Joint Inversion of High]Rate GPS and Teleseismic Observations for Rupture Process of the 23 June 2014 (Mw 79) Rat Islands Archipelago, Alaska, Intermediate Depth EarthquakeLingling Ye, Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Jeffrey T Freymueller, and Luis Rivera 1498 Large Earthquakes and Structural Heterogeneity in Eastern Tibetan PlateauJianshe Lei and Dapeng Zhao 1679 Seismic Potential of Thrust]Wrench Tectonic Interference between Major Active Faults Offshore SW Iberia: A New Explanation for the 1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake?Filipe M Rosas, João C Duarte, Wouter P Schellart, Ricardo Tomás, and Pedro Terrinha 19310 On the Sedimentological and Historical Evidences of Seismic]Triggered Tsunamis on the Algarve Coast of PortugalCésar Andrade, Maria C Freitas, Maria A Oliveira, and Pedro J M Costa 219Part III Volcanoes and Related Natural Hazards 23911 Growth, Demise, and Recent Eruption History of the Eastern Cobb]Eickelberg Seamounts at the Intersection with the Juan De Fuca RidgeRobert P Dziak and Susan G Merle 24112 The Devastating Impact of the 2010 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, IndonesiaSusanna F Jenkins, Jean]Christophe Komorowski, Peter J Baxter, Sylvain J Charbonnier, Noer Cholik, and Surono 25913 The Tsunami Effects of a Collapse of a Volcanic Island on a Semienclosed Basin: The Pico]São Jorge Channel in the Azores ArchipelagoRachid Omira, Rui Quartau, Inês Ramalho, Maria Ana Baptista, and Neil C Mitchell 27114 Remote Sensing of Volcanic Eruptions: From Aviation Hazards to Global CoolingAndrew T Prata 289Index 323