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- Title
- Surface Faulting and Its Effect on Buried Pipelines.
- File
- PB84152834.pdf
- Author(s)
- McCaffrey, M. A.; O'Rourke, T. D.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., November 1983, 198 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- GER-83-10
- Abstract
- Results are presented of a study undertaken to evaluate the ground movements associated with various types of faulting and to assess the response of pipelines to these fault movements. Fault types and the patterns and dimensions of surface ruptures that occur during an earthquake are described. Correlations are developed between surface fault rupture length, maximum displacement, and earthquake magnitude. Historic strike-slip faulting in the United States is investigated and the relation between strike-slip faults and global plate boundaries is discussed. The effects of surface faulting on gas distribution and transmission pipelines during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake are examined.
- Keywords
- San Fernando (California); Earthquake resistant structures; Soils; Stress relaxation; Hazards; Gas pipelines; Pipelines; Gas distribution; Earthquakes; Geological faults