This course aims to teach students about earthquakes and Earth's interior. The learning outcomes include understanding earthquake waves, locating earthquake epicenters, determining earthquake size, and studying tsunami formation and travel. Students will learn about seismology, earthquake prediction, and Earth's interior layers. The course teaches skills such as interpreting seismic intensity maps, calculating Richter scale magnitudes, and analyzing earthquake destruction. The teaching method involves lectures and visual aids. This course is intended for individuals interested in geology, natural disasters, or environmental science.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Elastic Rebound
Megathrust Fault
Seismology: The Study of Earthquake Waves • Earthquake waves - Study of earthquake waves is called seismology - Earthquake recording instrument (seismograph)
Earthquake Focus and Epicenter
Earthquakes • Locating an earthquake
Body Wave and Surface Wave Travel
Determining the Size of Earthquakes • Intensity - A measure of the degree of earthquake shaking at a given locale based on the amount of damage - Most often measured by the Modified Mercalli Intensity
Seismic Intensity Map, Loma Prieta 1989
Determining Richter Scale Magnitude
Annual Earthquake Occurrence
Earthquake Destruction
Liquefaction
Japan Tsunami
Formation of a Tsunami
Tsunami Travel Times to Honolulu
Earthquake Prediction
Earth's Interior . Most of our knowledge of Earth's interior comes from the study of P and Searthquake waves - Travel times of P and S waves through Earth vary depending on the properties of the materials
Possible Paths of Earthquake Waves
Earth's Layers
Views of Earth's Layered Structure
Taught by
Sven Holbik
