This course covers the learning outcomes and goals of understanding earthquakes and the Earth's interior. Students will learn about faults, plate tectonics, types of faults, seismic waves, seismographs, locating earthquake sources, earthquake destruction, earthquake prediction, and Earth's layered structure. The course teaches skills such as interpreting seismic data, analyzing earthquake patterns, and understanding Earth's geological processes. The teaching method includes lectures on fault movements, seismology, seismic wave types, earthquake measurement, and seismic forecasting. The intended audience for this course is individuals interested in geology, earth sciences, natural disasters, and plate tectonics.
Overview
Syllabus
Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
Faults - Movements that produce earthquakes are usually associated with large fractures in Earth's crust called faults Most of the motion along faults can be explained by plate tectonics
Slippage along Faults
Types of Faults There are three major types of
How do Faults cause Earthquakes?
Principle of the Seismograph
Seismology: Seismographs
Seismology: Body Wave Motion
Seismology: Seismic Waves - Surface waves (Two Types: Love and Rayleigh Waves) + Travel along outer part of Earth
Locating the Source of Earthquakes
The Epicenter Is Located Using Three or More Seismographs
Determining the Size of Earthquakes
Seismic Intensity Map, Loma Prieta, 1989
Measuring the Size of Earthquakes • Magnitude scales
Earthquake Destruction
Can Earthquakes Be Predicted?
Seismic Gaps: Tools for Forecasting
Paleoseismology: The Study of Prehistoric
Review: Body Waves versus Surface Waves
Paths that Seismic Waves Follow through Earth
Earth's Layered Structure
Meteorites
Taught by
Earth and Space Sciences X
