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Seismology for Ph.D. Students - NDGF016
Title: Seismologie pro doktorandy
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2017
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Jiří Zahradník, DrSc.
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Macroseismic and instrumental observations of earthquakes. Physical processes of earthquake sources. Geographical and temporal distribution of earthquakes. Body and surface seismic waves in simple Earth models. Inverse seismic problems. Seismic hazard, zoning and microzoning.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (08.04.2008)

The aim to provide students with basics of practical seismology to be able to continue with more advanced courses, to work on PhD thesis, to understand to seismic data and to use them in modeling. The aim is to provide students with basic mathematical formulation of relations between earthquake source processes and seismic wavefield. The students will understand theoretical basics of inverse seismic problems and problems of forward modeling of strong ground motions during earthquakes.

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Podmínkou udělení zápočtu je absolvování písemného testu.

Získání zápočtu je podmínkou pro konání zkoušky.

Literature - Czech
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
  • B. Bolt: Earthquakes, W.H. Freeman and Company., San Francisco 1978 (rus. překlad Mir, Moskva 1981).
  • K.E. Bullen, B. Bolt: An introduction to the theory of seosmology. Cambridge University Press 1985.
  • T. Lay, T.C. Wallace: Modern global seismology. Academic Press 1995.
  • P.M. Shearer: Introduction to seismology. Cambridge University Press 1999.
  • A. Udias: Principles of seismology. Cambridge University Press 2000.
  • A. Udias, J.Mezcua: Fundamentos de sismologia. UCA Editores 1997.
  • A. Udias, J.Mezcua: Fundamentos de geofisica. Alhambra Editorial 1986.
  • O. Kulhánek: Anatomy of seismograms. Elsevier 1990.
  • O. Kulhánek: Propagation of seismic waves (lecture notes). Uppsala University 1993.
  • F. Scherbaum: Basic concepts in digital signal processing for seismologists. Springer-Verlag 1994.
  • K. Aki, P.G. Richards, Quantitative seismology,1 and 2. W.H. Freeman and Company., San Francisco 1980 (rus. překlad Mir, Moskva 1983).
  • F.A. Dahlen, J. Tromp: Theoretical global seismology. Princeton University Press 1998.
  • J. Zahradnik: Generation of seimic waves by earthquake sources (lecture notes). Uppsala University 1992.
  • http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov
  • http://orfeus.knmi.nl
  • http://seis30.karlov.mff.cuni.cz

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Lecture + exercises

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Makroseismic data

Ground motion and intensity, macroseismic scales, isoseismal maps. Historic and recent data.

Instrumental data

Historic development of instruments; basic principles. Mechanical seismograph. Transfer function for input displacement, velocity, acceleration. Decibel, decade, octave. Short-period, long-period and broad-band instrument. Sensitivity (volt/(m/s)), digitization (volt/count) and final relation count/(m/s). Instrumental correction in practice. Sampling rate, triggering, data storage. Data formats. Seismic noise and instrumental noise. Reading seismograms (arrival time, polarity, amplitude, period, duration). Instrumentation of our department (station PRAHA and stations in Greece). CMG-3T velocigraph and 5T accelerograph; analysis by program SCREAM. Program PITSA. Getting data from world data centers (ISC, USGS, ORFEUS). Seismic web pages.

Location and seismicity

Principles of linearized kinematic location. Programs HYPO. Principles of the grid-search location. Principles of the master-event (relative) location. Geometric azimuth and epicentral distance on the sphere. Rotation of horizontal components from EW, NS into R, T system. Particle motion (polarization) diagrams of P and S waves, S-wave splitting. Dynamic azimuth and incidence angle (apparent and true). Global and regional source regions. Depth distribution. Vadati-Benioff zones.

Body waves

Elastic Lame parameters in isotropic medium, bulk modulus (incompressibility), Poisson ratio. Linearized equation of motion; stress-velocity formulation; displacement formulation. Separation of P and S waves in homogeneous media, divergence and curl; definition of Vp a Vs. Potentials. Longitudinal and shear waves. 2D equations of motion; separation of P-SV and SH waves. 3D equations of motion. Curved interfaces and free surface. Dissipation, Q-factor, attenuation and dispersion.

Rays and travel times

Fermat principle. Snell's law. Parametric equations of the travel-time curve in 1D spherically symmetric medium. The ray parameter and the travel-time derivative. Theoretical travel times in a homogeneous mantle and core: P, PcP and PKP waves. Amplitude-distance curves. The Wiechert-Herglotz equation (without derivation). Travel times for a layer over half-space; MOHO; Pn and PmP waves. "Dictionary" of seismic phases. Standard travel-time curves and seismic models of the Earth (JB a IASP91). Principles of seismic tomography.

Surface waves

Love waves for a layer over half-space; dispersion and depth dependence. Rayleigh waves (without derivation). Mantle waves. Dispersion curves for continents and oceans.

Magnitude

Richter's magnitude. Magnitude from body and surface waves, calibration function. station correction. Frequency-magnitude relations (Gutenberg-Richter). Relations between magnitude and intensity. Relations between magnitude and energy. Time variations in the seismic energy release (sequences, swarm, Benioff graphs). Foreshocks and aftershocks. Seismic gaps. Quiescence. Migration.

Seismic sources

Fault plane, rupture, slip. Fault and radiated wave field. Pure shear earthquakes. Non-shear components. Seismic moment tensor; scalar moment, P-T-N axes. Radiation pattern of P and S waves (without derivation). Take-off angles for global and regional problems. Focal mechanisms retrieval from first-motion polarities. Problems involved. Nodal planes; source angles - strike, dip, rake; conjugate solutions. Apparent source time function and fault length; corner frequency. Directivity due to rupture propagation. Apparent time function retrieved by means of aftershocks (empirical Green's function). Relation between the fault length, moment and stress drop.

Energy of seismic waves

Volume density of kinetic and potential strain energy. Energy and power flux; formulation in stress and velocity, or in velocity only. Energy estimation from a single station. Relation between the P and S wave energy. Relation between energy, moment and stress drop. Moment magnitude.

Seismic hazard

Empirical attenuation curves (relation between ground motion, distance and magnitude). Problems involved. Synthetic attenuation curves. Point-source and finite-source approach. Synthetic seismograms for anti-seismic design. Empirical and synthetic response spectra for anti-seismic design.

Local site effects

Frequency-selective amplification ('resonance') and prolongation of ground motion in subsurface structures. Layered and basin structures. Spectral ratios with respect to reference station. Horizontal/vertical spectral ratios. Transfer function of 1-D models excited by plane waves. Numerical simulation of 1D, 2D and 3D site effects - a short introduction.

 
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