Observational Earthquake Seismology

Course Topics [Details]:

Part One: What’s On A Seismogram?

• Interpreting Seismograms
• Strain & Stress
• Seismic Waves
• Body Waves & Seismic Ray Theory
• Surface Waves & Free Oscillations

Part Two: What Can Seismograms Tell Me About Earth?

• Exploiting Seismic Travel Times: Tomography
• Dispersion Analysis: Surface Waves
• Waveform Modeling: Receiver Functions
• Earth Models

Part Three: What Can Seismograms Tell Me About Earthquakes?

• Describing Faulting
• Equivalent Forces & Moment Tensors
• Estimating Earthquake Faulting Parameters
• Earthquake Statistics
• Seismotectonics