Course Details
Class Lectures: Tues and Thurs 12:30-1:50 PM, Tech F285 (Sloss room)
Professor: Seth Stein
Earthquakes: location, characteristics, origin, mechanism, and relation to plate motions; seismic hazard. Prerequisites: EARTH 202, MATH 250, and PHYSICS 135-2; or consent of instructor.
Required Texts: Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure by S. Stein and M. Wysession (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).
Class lectures : these are large power point files, largely covering material in Stein and Wysession.
1: Introduction to Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics (largely from Stein and Wysession 1 & 5.1-2)
2: Seismometers; Travel times in a spherical earth (largely from Stein and Wysession 6.6, 3.4-5)
3: Amplitudes of seismic waves (largely from Stein and Wysession 3.7)
4: Focal mechanisms (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.1-2)
5: Waveform modeling (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.3)
6: Moment tensors (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.4)
7: Earthquake geodesy (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.5)
8: Source parameters (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.6)
9: Earthquake recurrence & hazards (largely from Stein and Wysession 4.7)
10: Relative plate motions (largely from Stein and Wysession 5.1-2)
11: Absolute plate motions & hotspots (largely from Stein and Wysession 5.2)
12: Spreading centers (largely from Stein and Wysession 5.3 & 5.5)
13: Subduction zones (largely from Stein and Wysession 5.4)
14: Plate boundary zones (partly from Stein and Wysession 5.6)
15: Continental intraplate earthquakes (partly from Stein and Wysession 5.6)
16: Faulting & deformation (largely from Stein and Wysession 5.7)