Syllabus
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Course Code: GP-301 Course Name: Seismology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Seismic Wave Propagation Review of basic concepts and relations in elasticity theory, Hook’s Law, reflection and transmission of elastic waves at a plane boundary, plane waves, laws of simple reflection and refraction, head waves, total internal reflection, spherical waves, surface and interface waves, Rayleigh waves, Stoneley waves, love waves, dispersion curves, Free oscillations of the earth, toroidal and spheroidal oscillations, normal modes of a homogeneous sphere. |
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| 2 | Earth Structure And Location Travel time table: the ray parameter and seismic rays, time distance curves for local and teleseismic events, Inversion of travel times for earth’s structure, the method of Herglotz and Wichert, Preliminary location of earthquakes, refining the locations, review of various types of field observations, salient features of seismograms with description of different seismic phases. |
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| 3 | Earthquake Source Process Uniqueness and reciprocal theorems, Green’s tensor for a uniform medium, mathematical models of earthquake source, radiation pattern for P & S waves from a shear fault, the fault plane solutions. |
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| 4 | Earthquake Parameters And Seismic Zoning Earthquake parameters: Intensity and magnitude scales, seismic moment, relation between parameters, scaling laws, seismic zoning, seismicity, induced seismicity, earthquake prediction, discrimination between earthquakes and explosions. Earthquake Early Warning System. |
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