COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEISMOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
JEF 3607 SEISMOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Geophysical Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ELÇIN GÖK

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering

Course Objective

Fundamental principles of seismology, supporting with fundamental mathematics and physics principles in present applications, teaching the basis seismological studies in order to apply in every seismology laboratory.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describing the earthquake
2   Describing the elastic parameters
3   Formulating the elastic earthquake waves
4   Analysing the earthquake hazard
5   Estimating the earthquake parameters
6   Performing the fault plane solution
7   Reporting the conclusion as ethics
8   Describing the earthquake source parameters

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introductions: description, aim and development of Seismology, and its Branches
2 Geological, Physical, Mathematical and Geophysical Descriptions of the Earthquake.
3 Earthquakes and Earthquake Belts in the World, and their Relationships with Plate Tectonics. Earthquake Provinces in the Turkey. relationships with plate tectonics
4 Elasticity Theory: Elastic Modules,
5 Elasticity Theory: Elastic Waves, and their Movement Equations
6 Elastic Energy: Size of an Earthquake (Magnitude, Intensity, Energy, Energy Flow, Seismic Moment)
7 Mid-Term Exam-1
8 Elastic Energy: Amprical Equations between Magnitude-Intensity-Energy Earthquake Startistics: Magnitude-Frequency Equation, Earthquake Hazard and Risk
9 Earthquake Waves, and their Time-Distance Curves: Crustal Waves, Mantle and Core Waves, Converted Waves,
10 Earthquake Waves, and their Time-Distance Curves: Depth Phases, Surface Waves, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity, Channel Waves
11 Earthquake Parameters. Focal Mechanism Solution.
12 Mid-Term Exam-2
13 Earthquake Source Parameters. Earthquake Instruments.
14 Main Shock, Fore Shock, After Shock, and Earthquake Storm. Earthquake Prediction, Earthquake Spectra

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1) Thorne LAY and Terry C. WALLACE
Modern Global Seismology Academic Press, California, 1995.

Supplementary Book(s):
1) Agustín UDÍAS
Principles of Seismology
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999; ISBN 0 521 62434 7, 0 521 62478 9
2) Keiiti AKI, Paul G. RICHARDS
Qantitative Seismology: Theory and Methods. Volume I,II
W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco,1980.
3) K. E. BULLEN, Bruce A. BOLT
An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology, Fourth Edition
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.

Materials: Course Lectures

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture + Practice + Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Each practice is a studio study performed as a class performance in the classroom, and is assessed as practice/application grade of the course. 30% of the average of these practice grades would be the semester mark for practices/homeworks. 20 % of the average of two mid-term exams, 30% of the average of the practice grades and 50% of the final exam would be the semester mark of the course. The success grade of the year shall be determined after putting semester marks to the curve fitting.

Assessment Criteria

LO1-2-3-4-5-6 Mid-term exam-1 (20%)
LO1-2-3-4-5-6 Practice/Homework (30%)
LO1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Final exam (50%)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assis.Prof.Dr. Mehmet UTKU, mehmet.utku@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Everytime

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.154
LO.244
LO.3555
LO.45555
LO.55555
LO.65555
LO.75
LO.855

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