What’s New?

SCRIBBLES:

Acoustics, Tsunamis and Fluid Mechanics:

Notes on fluid mechanics — The Road to Tsunamis  (PDF)
Beginner’s Notes on basic hydrodynamics of tsunamis  (PDF)
The June 1990 Tsunami of the Caspian Sea (notes on tsunamis & the 1990 slump event)  (PDF)

Grids and Maps:

Grids — A set of notes on topographic grids (PDF)
Tips and Tricks for GMT (a set of quick tips for people who already know how to use GMT to some extent) (PDF)

Seismic Hazard:

Seismic Hazard in Iran: Beginner’s note  (PDF)
Seismic Hazard in Iran: Beginner’s note v1.5  (PDF)
Note on F-distribution  (PDF)
Note on Gamma Function  (PDF)

Seismometry:

Beginner’s Notes on Oscillators — The Road to Seismometry  (PDF)
Horizontal Seismometer Report (Built for EARTH360) (PDF)
Vertical 1-Component Seismometer Report (Built for EARTH360)  (PDF)
Maintenance Report on the EPS “Green” Seismometer and the STS-2 in Locy Hall  (PDF)
Investigating the Response Functions of EPS Seismometers at Northwestern University (notes on instrument response and the EPS device) (PDF)

Other:

Role of Earth’s Mantle in Water and Gases in the Environment  (PDF)
Introduction to Xcircuit  (PDF)

 

Snippets:

– TsuNoise: Bundle of scripts & FORTRAN codes to sonify tsunami simulations using statistical entropy (see here).
– KagDom: Set of programs and scripts to find the dominant source geometry in a region, using available focal solutions (see here).
– TsuBox v2.0: Set of programs to ray-trace complex, finite tsunami sources (see here).
– OMEGA: Code/Parameter I am developing using the OBS signals to do tsunami warning.
– METEO: Finite-difference code to calculate meteotsunami amplitudes (see here).
– CATANIM: Creates 4D movies of earthquake distribution in a given catalog. You can access a crude outline of what I have already done here Also, here is an example.
– SNRGAP: Script package to create record gap datasets — and movies — using IRIS MUSTANG and similar services (see here).
– RESPSHELL: A code package tp experimentally analyze the behavior of instrument response curves in different frequency bands (here).

 

Good Reads:

Feynman, Richard P., Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) (READ)
Liner, Christopher L., Greek Seismology, 1997 (READ)
Agnew, Duncan Carr, History of Seismology, IHEES, 2002  (READ)
Davison, Charles, A Study of Recent Earthquakes, WS Publishing, London, 1905 (READ)
Houston, Edwin, J., The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Fredrick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York, 1907 (READ)
Theophrasus, Tyrtamus, On Stones, ~300 B.C. (READ)
Bak, P., Tang, C., and Wiesenfeld, Self-organized Criticaliry, Physical Review, Volume 38, 1988 (READ)