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Practical Course in Seismology - NGEO011

Title:	Praktikum ze seismologie
Form of teaching:	practical classes
Guaranteed by:	Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2016 to 2025
Duration in semesters:	1
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Repeated enrollment:	2 / 2 / 2 / 2

Guarantor:	RNDr. Vladimír Plicka, Ph.D. RNDr. Jaromír Janský, CSc.
Teacher(s):	RNDr. Vladimír Plicka, Ph.D.
Classification:	Physics > Geophysics

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Annotation -

Introduction into seismographs theory; seismograms processing; seismic stations network; earhquake location and mechanism.

Last update: T_KG (16.05.2001)

Aim of the course -

Tha aim of this course is to introduce the students into the observation practice (seismograph types, data processing, cooperation with the data centers)

Last update: PLICKA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (11.04.2008)

Course completion requirements - Czech

Podmínkou udělení zápočtu je aktivní účast na semináři.

Student má právo na jednu opravu každé zápočtové úlohy.

Last update: Plicka Vladimír, RNDr., Ph.D. (04.08.2026)

Literature - Czech

B. Bolt, Earthquakes, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco 1978.

O. Kulhánek, Anatomy of Seismograms, Elsevier 1990.

F. Scherbaum, Basic Concepts in Digital Signal Processing for Seismologists, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov

http://orfeus.knmi.nl

http://seis30.karlov.mff.cuni.cz

Last update: Zakouřil Pavel, RNDr., Ph.D. (05.08.2002)

Teaching methods -

Practicals

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Syllabus -

Seismic station Prague

History of the station; instaled seismographs; UK MFF stations in Greece; Czech seismic stations

Seismographs

Priciple, types and parameters; transfer function (poles and zeroes); frequency and impulse response

Seismograms

Reading of analog and digital records (program SCREAM), output formats (GCF, SAC, ASCII); Seismogram convolution and deconvolution, filtration, spectra, component rotation, phase polarization (program PITSA)

Wave kinematics

The models of the medium: planar and spherical (JB, IASP91), velocity-depth gradients and discontinuities; body main and supplementary wave phases, epicentral distance, travel-time curves (program TTIME), azimuth; Wiechert-Herglotz method, Tau method; dispersion of surface waves

Earthquake location

Global, regional and local networks; earthquake position, origin time and depth; linearisation of the problem, Geiger's method, program HYPO, Master event method, grid search

Wave dynamics

Earthquake intensity; magnitude; scalar seismic moment; corner frequency

Seismic source

Focal mechanism (first motion polarities, amplitude spectra and polarities - program ASPO); Apparent source time function; empirical Green's funtions

Data centers and Internet

National Earthquake Information Center; International Seismological Center; Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; Swiss Seismological Service

Literature:

B. Bolt, Earthquakes, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco 1978.

O. Kulhánek, Anatomy of Seismograms, Elsevier 1990.

F. Scherbaum, Basic Concepts in Digital Signal Processing for Seismologists, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov

http://orfeus.knmi.nl

http://seis30.karlov.mff.cuni.cz

Last update: T_KG (07.05.2002)