| Spring semester 2006 | 3 hr. semester credit |
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Prerequisites: GG 5210, differential equations and partial differential equations recommended or consent of instructor, MatLab or Maple and FORTRAN programming recommended. UNIX skills useful.
Description: Theory and applications in earthquake seismology, earthquake mechanics; wave propagation, earth structure, instrumentation, interpretation of seismograms, focal mechanisms, faults, paleoseismology, seismotectonics, earthquake locations and magnitudes, etc.
Note that a special 1-hr. section will be taught in the last 6 weeks of the course and can be taken separately without the main course. It focuses on the applied aspects of earthquake seismology. The hazard section starts March 20, 2006.
The hazard component will emphasize engineering seismology, strong ground motion analysis, deterministic and probabilistic earthquake hazard assessment including use of fault and earthquake history, ground accelerations, attenuation, displacement history, and related information.
Also the hazard component is planned as a parallel course to geotechnical engineering courses in engineering and hazards courses in geography. It will cover the first 5 chapters and parts of chapter 7 from: Kramer, 1996, Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Prentice Hall, 653 pages.
Prerequisite for hazard section: Upper level undergraduate level standing in such fields as engineering, geography, geology, practicing professionals, etc. are welcome.
Scope of Course: Current topics in earthquake seismology such as inverse methods for tomographic inversion of whole earth structure, probabilistic and deterministic hazards analyses, and earthquake locations and use of high frequency and broadband seismic data recorded on modern digital networks will be discussed. Labs, a term project, and homework will emphasize computational methods (primarily using MatLab and Excel scripts).
Special analyses will emphasize structure of the earth using earth structure modeling codes; seismotectonics and hazards of the San Andreas fault, the Yellowstone hotspot, the Wasatch fault and recent large global earthquakes (SE Asia quake and tsunami, Pakistan earthquake; Chi Chi Taiwan; Izmit, Turkey, Iran, etc.).
A special workshop in probabilistic earthquake hazards will be done in conjunction with the OpenSHA organization: http://www.opensha.org/. Dr. Ned Field, USGS, will be a guest instructor. The use of probabilistic earthquake hazard determination will be project of the hazards section where the class will prepare data site-specific to the Wasatch fault that will be incorporated into the web accessible OpenSHA program.
Also experience will be gained by using the online earthquake information of the USGS National Earthquake Information Center and the IRIS (Integrated Research Institutions in Seismology) Data Management Center.
Course Web Page: http://www.mines.utah.edu/~rbsmith/TEACHING/GG5330/index.html
Password protected material can be accessed using:
Name: volcanoe
Password: earthquake
Readings: Journal articles and WWW sites will be assigned as needed.
Also readings will come from new papers in the IASPEI (International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior)
Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, published in two parts (Part A, Sept., 2003; and Part B, July, 2003) by Academic Press. Please visit: http://books.elsevier.com/quake
Term Project: Teams of students will do a term project that will be written up as a term paper and will be due the last week of class with a presentation the last week of the course. Topics should include applications that can be completed in one quarter.
Digital Analyses: Most homework will be assigned that will require hands-on computations on workstations using Matlab and Excel scripts.
Laboratory: Labs will focus on the interpretation and analyses of digital earthquake data, analyses of local earthquake data, plotting and interpretation of earthquake record sections, spectral analyses of strong ground motion records and probabilistic risk assessment.
Grades: Final grade will be based upon homework, laboratories, readings, one 1-hour exam, and a term project (in place of a final exam). Special Lectures: Invited speakers will provide timely lectures on such topics as earthquake time series, affects of 3-D structure on earthquake locations, basin amplification, probabilistic earthquake hazards of hazardous waste sites and Yucca Mtn repository.
Computational Tools:
Textbooks:
Kramer, S. L., 1996, Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Prentice Hall, 653 pages
Smith, R.B. 2000, Tectonophysics and earthquake seismology lecture notes (chapters 14-22 on earthquake seismology) available on our web site or from an electronic copy from me.
Stein, S. and M. Wysession, 2003, Introduction to seismology, earthquakes and earth structure, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 498 pp.
Books can be purchased at the University Bookstore or through the following online book sales: varsitybooks.com, barnesandnoble.com, borders.com and amazon.com.
General earthquake references (on reserve in Marriott Library or from the instructor)::
Aki, K. and P. Richards, 2001, Quantitative seismology, W.F. Freeman and Co.,
Benjamin, J. R. and C. A. Cornell, 1970, Probability, statistics and decision for civil engineers, McGraw-Hill.
Das, S. and Kostrov, B.V., 1988, Principles of earthquake source mechanics, Cambridge University Press.
Kennett, B. L. N., 1991, IASPEI 1991, Seismological tables, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
Kennett, B. L. N., 2001, The Seismic Wavefield, Vol 1. Introduction and Theoretical Development, Cambridge University Press,
Lay, T. and T. Wallace, 1995, Modern Global Seismology (International Geophysics Series, Vol 58, Academic Press.
Scholz, C.H., 1990, The mechanics of earthquakes and faulting, Cambridge University Press.
Shearer, P., 1999, Introduction to seismology, Cambridge University Press, 260 pp.
Wallace, R. E. (editor), 1990, Seismicity, 1980-86, in the San Andreas Fault System, U. S. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper.
General references in earthquake hazards:
OpenSHA, Open source earthquake hazards analysis (online Java scripts) from the Southern California Earthquake Center and the USGS http://www.opensha.org
Lee, W. H. K., H. Kanamori, P. C. Jennings, and C Kisslinger, 2002, International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Elsevier Press.
McCalpin, J.P., editor, J., 1996, Paleoseismology, Academic Press.
Keller, E. A. And N. Pinter, 1996, Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift and Landscape, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Pinter, N., 1997, Exercises In Active Tectonics, Prentice Hall, Inc.
Reiter, L, 1990, Earthquake hazard analysis, Issues and insights, Colombia University Press.
Yeats, R.S., K. Sieh, and C.R. Allen, 1997, The geology of earthquakes, Oxford Univ. Press.
Web accessible documents on introductory plate tectonics, earthquakes, and hazards:
Kious, W. J. and R. I. Tilling, 1997, This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics, U.S. Geol. Survey, 77p. - On line document: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
Shedlock, K. and L. Pakiser, 1997, Earthquakes, On line document: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/
Frankel, A., 1996, US National Earthquake Hazard Maps: http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq/index.html
Introductory earthquake and seismicity: http://www.scecdc.scec.org/Module/module.html
Plate tectonics, earthquakes and GPS: http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/
Earthquake location methods: http://vcourseware3.calstatela.edu/VirtualEarthquake/VQuakeIntro.html
Java applet accessible earthquake demonstrations from Clausthal University: http://www.ifg.tu-clausthal.de/java
Introductory Books on Geologic Hazards:
Abbott, Patrick L., 2002, Natural Disasters, McGraw-Hill.
Bolt, B., 1993, Earthquakes and geological discovery, Academic Press.
Bolt, B., 2005, Earthquakes, W. H. Freeman and Company, 331 p.
Murck, B., B. Skinner, and S. Porter, 1997, Dangerous Earth: An Introduction to Geologic Hazards, John Wiley & Sons, 300 pp.
Entertaining bedtime reading in geology:
McGuire, W., 1999, Apoccalypse, A natural history of global disasters, Cassel, London, 256 pp.
McPhee, J., 1990, The Control of Nature, Farrar, Straus, Giroux-- The geologic story and consequences of not understanding how volcanos, earthquakes and river control affects mankind.
McPhee, J., 1990, Basin and Range, Noonday Press -- A field trip across the Great Basin, its evolution and mineralization.
McPhee, J., 1991, Rising From The Plains, Noonday Press -- The geology of Wyoming which tells the story of the origin of the Rocky Mountains.
McPhee, J. 1994, Assembling California, Noonday Press - The geologic story of accretionary tectonics that formed much of California.