Research Horizons: Examining Coastal Faults
Geologist Jillian Maloney works to predict earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis in coastal areas.
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Jillian Maloney is intimately familiar with both the beauty and fragility of the Earth鈥檚 coastal zones.
People flock to coastal regions for their majestic beauty and the accessibility they boast. Yet these regions also face a unique risk for natural disaster, something Maloney, a marine geologist, has been studying in her 色情视频 lab for years.
Maloney uses sonar images and studies underwater sediment layers to examine critical underwater faults in San Diego Bay and elsewhere, in order to better understand the likelihood of future earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis.
鈥淪ediment is like a record of earth鈥檚 history, telling us the story of our planet鈥檚 climate, biosphere and natural disasters,鈥� she said. Analyzing it 鈥渁llows us to predict how large future earthquakes might be and potentially provide lifesaving data to coastal communities.鈥�
