Earthquake Energy

Imran Abbasi

Energies related with Earthquakes

• Earthquakes release energy in several forms:

• The energy in seismic waves that cause the ground to shake

• Heat energy associated with friction on the fault slip surface

• Gravitational potential energy (the energy stored when lifting

something off the ground, for example) may change as a result of the

earthquake

• Elastic potential energy, as in the recoil energy of a stretched spring

• We can directly measure the first of these energies, that in seismic

waves. The other types of energy cannot be measured directly, but

can only be indirectly inferred.

How does Earthquake work?

• Radioactive energy, decays produce heat energy.

• Causing Convection Currents in Mantle.

• This movement is transferred to Earth's crust where movement stores up energy.When the rock breaks or (blocks interlock) , the stored energy is released suddenly outwards towards surface in form of seismic waves.

• Rocks are elastic and store energy when they are cool. As they get hotter and under greater pressure, they behave more plastically.

How to Calculate Seismic Energy?

Uses Of Earthquake Energy ?

Road Power Generation

Advancing Technology

• The energy-generating roadway works thanks to piezoelectric crystals embedded in the asphalt. As vehicles pass over them, the vibrations generate a small amount of electricity that travels to a larger transformer which then distributes the energy.

• it essentially transforms kinetic energy into electrical current

A seismograph detects and records EQs.

A seismogram is the EQ record.

What is Piezoelectricity?

• Crystals which acquire a charge when compressed, twisted or distorted are said to be piezoelectric.

• Piezoelectric Effect is the ability of certain materials to generate an electric charge in response to applied mechanical stress.

Now the effects of the charges (their dipole moments) no longer cancel one another out and net positive and negative charges appear on opposite crystal faces. By

squeezing the crystal, you've produced a voltage across its opposite faces—and that's piezoelectricity!

Things required for EPG

• Some special Ductile material.

• springs

• lead-rubber bearings

• Piezoelectric crystals

• solid lead core

• Battery

Advantages of EPG

• EPG would only not generate electricity but also absorbs the energy released from Earthquakes.

2- Seismic Bombs.

• How to store Earthquake energy?• Not all materials can store energy like a spring.

Material should be Elastic.I. Put some specially built elastic material.II. When earthquake strikes, it can store energy

likewise energy accumulated between two blocks below surface.

III. We can store small packets of energy from earthquake and when we got enough energy we can take that elastic body out and take it in subsurface on our desiring TARGET!

Earthquake Energy Advantage?

• Earthquakes occur along fault lines or plate boundries

through out the World, but they can also create new

faults and fractures which can be of advantage by

means of deep horizons studies and they can make

Trap for HC Reservoir etc.

Tsunami ?

• Another way to harness earthquake energy: Suppose

Japan had built a giant “wall” equipped with

hydroelectric turbines along the coast, but this wall was

buried underground and spring-loaded. Once the

tsunami crossed the wall, they could release the springs

and the wall/dam would pop up, trapping the water

inland and generating electricity as it flowed back to sea

through the turbines.

Also same wall if built in other countries and popped up

before striking of Tsunami wave, it can reduce the

destruction of Tsunami in Countries like India and

Pakistan.

CONCLUSION & REFRENCES

• Al the work is presented is hypothetical and is not

proved yet so its all Imaginary .