Effects of earthquakes on underground facilities

literature review and discussion

by David W. Carpenter

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Published 1986 by Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- United States.,
• Seismology -- United States.

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Edition Notes

Statement	prepared by D.W. Carpenter and D.H. Chung.
Contributions	Chung, D. H., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Division of Waste Management., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The Physical Object
Pagination	x, 53 p. ;
Number of Pages	53
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL17833656M

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Year Published: Myths and facts on wastewater injection, hydraulic fracturing, enhanced oil recovery, and induced seismicity. The central United States has undergone a dramatic increase in seismicity over the past 6 years (Fig. 1), rising from an average of 24 M≥3 earthquakes per year in the years – to an average of M≥3 earthquakes in –, with occurring in. Earthquakes can impart major influences on surface and subsurface hydrologic regimes over a variety of spatial (i.e., 0 km to more than km from the epicenter, from single sites to total areas exceeding km 2) and temporal scales (i.e, transient to permanent effects generated immediately during the earthquake or accumulated over millions of years, e.g., mountain building, drainage.

The most serious earthquake-related dangers at Pebble Mine would be a major collapse in the pit or underground mine and a dam breach at the giant tailings containment facilities. Either event could precipitate human, economic, and environmental catastrophe, with the pit collapse being the greater human hazard, the tailings breach being the. improvement plan to ensure that facilities remain operational for years to come. Supporting financial incentives, such as low interest loans or tax breaks, for home and business owners who seismically retrofit their structures. understand and assess local vulnerability to earthquakes, In , one miner died and five were injured in an underground rock fall triggered by an earthquake in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In the last 80 years, there have been 17 earthquakes in Australia registering or more on the Richter scale. This is a rate of about one earthquake every five years, compared to the world averageFile Size: KB.

Seismic safety of nuclear power plants became an eminent importance after the Great Tohoku earthquake on 11th of March, and subsequent disaster of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Intensive works are in progress all over the world that include review of the site seismic hazard assessment, revision of the design bases, evaluation of vulnerability, and development of accident Cited by: 1. Suppose your region had more earthquakes of magnitudes below 7 than the curve shown in Figure This would imply a larger number of big earthquakes and a greater hazard. At first, this seems logical. If you feel the effects of small earthquakes from time to time, .   Recently, these sources informed him that the earthquakes that occurred in Colorado and the Washington DC area, surrounding August 22 nd and 23 rd, were, in fact, apparently nuclear strikes against underground military facilities.