GEOL 6030 - Earthquake Seismology

Units: 4
Methods for using seismic data from earthquakes to study geologic properties. Stress and strain, seismic raypaths, travel times, amplitude and phase, body and surface waves. Seismic source theory, including focal mechanisms and moment tensors. Earthquake location methods. Travel-time inversion methods for the determination of velocity structure. Seismic coda and attenuation. Array analysis. A-F grading only.