Class Schedule
GG5330/6330, Spring 2006

Note this is a tentative schedule. It can and will change depending on progress of students.

 

Week 1: Jan. 9-13 Introduction

  1. Introduction, grades, terms of reference, and motivation
  2. Review of seismic wave transmission, eikonal equations, effects of boundaries on amplitudes.
  3. Tour of seismograph stations and data access

  4. Smith chapters 10, 12, 13
  5. Stein and Wysession, chapters 1, 2.1-2.6

 

Week 2: Jan. 16-20 Seismic instrumentation

  1. Homework 1 Seismic instrumentation and java seismometer example

  2. Lab #1 Seismograph calibration and Java demo of seismic response

  3. Smith chapter 15
  4. Stein and Wysession, chapter 6.6

 

Week 3: Jan. 23-27, Ray theory, interpretation of travel-time curves, earth structure and its signature on seismograms

  1. Lab #2 Digital processing (filtering, spectra, motion conversion), traveltime curves and nomenclature of local seismic data using SAC)

  2. Smith chapters 14
  3. Stein and Wysession 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5

 

Week 4: Jan 30-Feb. 3, Earth velocity structure (crust, mantle and core), travel-time inversion

  1. Homework 2 Ray theory and digital seismic signal estimation

  2. Lab #3 Digital processing, traveltime curve and nomenclature of teleseismic exercise (data from IRIS) and inversion of traveltime curve

  3. Smith chapters 14
  4. Stein and Wysession 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5 cont. and 7.3-7.3

 

Week 5: Feb. 6-10 Generalized earthquake location and tomography problem.

  1. Homework 3 Hypocenter determination and focal mechanisms

  2. Lab 4 Hypocenter location of local earthquakes

  3. Smith chapter 17
  4. Stein and Wysession chapter 7.2

 

Week 6: Feb. 13-17, Focal mechanisms and fault plane solutions.

  1. Lab # 5 Focal mechanism determination

  2. Smith, chapter 20
  3. Stein and Wysession chapter 4.2

 

Week 7: Feb. 20-24 Earthquake frequency of occurrence and earthquake statistics.

  1. Homework # 4 Freq. of earthquake occurrence and magnitude scaling

  2. Lab 5 Interpretation of the "Whole Earth" seismogram and application of Herglotz-Wiechert and Adamson-Williamson equations.

  3. Smith chapter 18
  4. Stein and Wysession chapter 4.6, 4.7

 

Week 8: Feb. 27-Mar 3 Electrodynamics, earthquake kinematics and seismic moment tensors.

  1. Homework # 5 Earthquake location

  2. Lab #6 :Analyses of NSN broadband data

  3. Smith chapter 20
  4. Stein and Wysession chapter 4.3-4.4

  5. Special Lectures by Ralph Archuleta in class and at the Utah Science Center

 

Week 9: Mar 6-10, Seismotectonics and review

  1. Laboratory # 7 Earthquake catalog analysis and declustering

  2. Stein and Wysession chapter 5

  3. Review and 1 hour mid-term exam

 

Week 9: Mar 13-17, Spring Break

Earthquake Hazards Section

 

Week 10: Mar. 20-24. Review of earthquake instrumentation, locations, statistics, etc for new Hazards Assessment students

  1. Continuing GG5330/6330 students, completion of project
  2. Kramer chapter 1, 2

  3. OpenSHA USGS workshop by Ned Field, USGS

 

Week 10: Mar. 27-31. Strong ground motion and attenuation

  1. Lab #8 Analysis of strong ground motion and attenuation

  2. Kramer chapter 3
  3. Assigned journal reading

 

Week 11: Apr. 3-7, Earthquake hazards and introduction to probabilistic hazard assessment.

  1. Homework # 9 Strong ground motion data

  2. Lab #9 Probability analysis

  3. Kramer 4

 

Week 12: Apr. 10-14 Deterministic and probabilistic hazard assessment.

  1. Lab #11 Probability analysis

  2. Kramer 4, 5

 

Week 13: Apr. 17-21 PSHA OpenSHA project

  1. Lab #11 Probability analysis continued

 

Week 14: Apr. 24-27 PSHA OpenSHA project continued

 

Week 15 Apr. 27-May 4 Take-home exam hand out

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